As a fitness instructor for professional race car drivers like Joey Saldana and NASCAR Sprint Cup’s Kasey Kahne, I have contact and access that many fans salivate over. My name is Russ Bohaty from RacersTrainer.com. The question I get asked more often is what is so and so like? The answer is more than just trivia because it is the individual’s mental make up which determines their results and level of success. The mental make up or character manifests itself outwardly in what we call behavior or actions. These behaviors determine your results. So what are they like?
Maybe the better question is what do they all have in common that might contribute to their unique and special results. Numerically speaking the odds are against anybody becoming a race car driver on the professional level. My clients beat those odds and even often have moments of dominance against the very best. Why?
Frankly, it is a combination of a lot of things. What I see all of them have is the special ability to implement the law of cause and effect into their actions toward the larger goal. They take effective action in the moment and they are not deterred by embarrassing defeat that might wreck the psyche of other people. Failures are only instructive. They take the lessons and go forward better. In the context of my training program for racers which I tailor to their individual needs, they only want small incremental improvement in the moment and then more the next session.
The incremental improvements add up to very special one-of-a-kind results. I would say that their willingness to take that approach to my racer’s workouts is just them doing what they have always done in other areas of their lives. There are no overnight successes and no one can reach the great heights forward without falling on their faces. We go over the mental aspect of race and life success until they are part of us in my Helmet Talks series.
