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Check out a variety of podcasts and interviews below with Roger Kitchen Jr., Founder and Mental Skills Coach of Power Mental Performance. Topics include anything from Performing Under Pressure to Building Team Culture.
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how power mental performance started
train your mind to perform at your best in powerlifting
mental performance in basketball
In this episode of Founders, Future, with host Karyn Vadnais, we meet Roger Kitchen Jr., founder of Power Mental Performance, who helps athletes and high-performing professionals excel under pressure. Roger shares his unconventional journey from training NASA teams to becoming a mental skills coach for NCAA athletes, revealing how a chance encounter with a sports psychologist sparked his passion for performance psychology. He discusses his signature "Do Hard Well" methodology, which helps clients overcome adversity, boost confidence, and adapt to stress—techniques he first tested on himself during his return to competitive powerlifting after a 24-year hiatus.
Roger opens up about working with teams ranging from high school volleyball to Division I basketball programs. He emphasizes the importance of empathy in his client intake process and customized mental training plans. For fellow entrepreneurs, Roger stresses perseverance "on the other side of hard is everything you want".
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Developing the skill to perform consistenly well in a meet is not something that comes easy. Just like each kilo earned, performing under pressure is a skill that is developed over time with reps and sets.
Today, NCAA Mental Skills Coach and owner of Power Mental Performance Coaching Roger Kitchen Jr. discuss the ways he helps lifters understand how their mind influences performance and where it can aid lifters in improving training efficiency and focus.
Listen as we go over:
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How to calm nerves before a meet
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What you can control vs what you cant
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Why you’re probably focusing on the wrong things
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Managing anxiety and how we can breathe is an often underrated tool
Roger Kitchen Jr. is a dedicated mental skills coach and a talented powerlifter. On this episode, Roger dissects several concepts: mindfulness, visualization, positive self talk, palms down, control the controllables, and more. With practice, all of this these concepts can help improve an athletes’ performance and mental health. This episode can help you improve your mindset and in turn, improve your quality of life. Give it a listen!
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mental performance in the business world
EP 72 features Roger Kitchen, Jr. of Power Mental Performance. Athletics is arguably 90% mental and Roger takes us inside his passion for helping athletes of all ages tap into the power of the mind. Controllables vs. Uncontrollables, mastering the mundane, understanding feelings of anxiety, gaining confidence through positive talk, and focus are just a few of the things we tackle in this conversation. Roger is an accomplished powerlifter in the country for his age and weight class and understands the minds of elite athletes
EP 112 features Roger Kitchen Jr., who is a certified Mental Skills Coach and an accomplished Powerlifter, working with college and high school teams and athletes. He has a passion to coach anyone who wants to achieve greatness. "Most people don't wake up each day and try to accomplish something greater than themselves," Roger says. "I want to inspire teams and athletes to "go for it," dream BIG, get after it, and not have any regrets," he adds. ​
Roger trains athletes and teams to: ​
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Perform Under Pressure
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Overcome Adversity
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Adapt in Stressful Situations
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Increase Self Confidence
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Improve Focus
Most business professionals don't realize their job is 80-90% mental. Throw KSAs out the door because your mentality is more important than your degrees and certifications. Neglecting the mental side of your performance is a mistake. Watch this video if you want to be an elite Corporate Athlete.
LEARN HOW TO TURN YOUR PROGRAM AROUND AND CHANGE THE CULTURE
Mental performance for elite athletes
Listen to this episode with Caleb Kimbrough, Head Basketball Coach at Hampden-Sydney College in Farmville, VA and Roger Kitchen Jr., Founder of Power Mental Performance. The two discuss how they have incorporated the systems and strategies of mental performance to build and enhance the winning culture at Hampden-Sydney. This combination of purpose and passion is the "unbreakable foundation" of Tiger DNA.
The 2022-23 season saw HSC finish the season 22-7 and go to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2013, the best season in 10 years and finished in the Top 20 of numerous national polls.
More info coming soon!
videos
MISTAKES ARE UNCONTROLLABLE. HOW YOU RESPOND TO MISTAKES IS MORE IMPORTANT
PLAY WITH COMPOSURE. PLAY PALMS DOWN
THE ALL-TIME GREAT ATHLETES KILL PROCESS AND DON'T FIXATE ON RESULTS
A MESSAGE TO ALL PERFECTIONISTIC ATHLETES WHO STRUGGLE WITH PERFORMANCE ANXIETY
THE COMPETITIVE EDGE FOR TEAMS IS DEVELOPING A TEAM'S MINDSET AND MENTAL TOUGHNESS
ALL HIGH PERFORMING ATHLETES HAVE THIS SKILL