1980 Olympics. The special victory over the powerful Soviets was the culmination of well over a year of diligent preparation. The part that really matters is all the little effort things that made it possible. That's they part we never see.

 

"I have never been a believer in the will to win. It is the will to prepare to win, that matters." Bob Knight, Legendary College Basketball Coach

NASCAR's Kasey Kahne is my most famous personal fitness client and also a long time friend.   The amount of  commitment and work he has brought to get where he is at is the untold story of his career.  This is true for most elite athletes.  People see the results and often mistake those results for something based on good fate, luck, or being gifted.  All those may be true, but people who benefit from those things toward a rare rise to success, made luck, fortune and their gift work for them.

Bottom line: Kasey Kahne is a success because he prepared for it and continues to prepare. He puts in the hours and the labor toward a larger plan of being the best in his field. When he sees a weakness or an area that he knows needs to be better for him to be better, he makes a plan to improve it, and gets busy improving it.

When he wants that little mental edge behind the wheel, he takes the best of what he knows will put him in the best frame of mind and studies it on race day behind the wheel just before competition.  This is the genesis of my Helmet Talks series.   He plans, he prepares and he takes action on those plans.

The thing to remember is that he has never ever authored a perfect plan the first time through.  The plan is simply a way of organizing your thoughts, and it is meant to be amended when events prove it's weakness. The end result can be achieved in multitudes of ways in basically any endeavor.  When Kasey takes on a challenge in the gym for the work that makes up my Racers Workout, dvd and online training course, it is planning and preparation for a result.  There is no habit more vital to achieving big-time results.

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