What To Do When You Fear Your Body

August 18, 2025

What you have fear around within your body is a direct indication of what it is that you need to actually attack. If you have fear around your shoulder, if you have fear around your elbow, if you have fear around even like too much stress, or you have fear around a lot of people watching when you're performing, whatever it is that you're having fear around is that thing that needs to be attacked and addressed and specifically within the context of training and of rehab, right? 

If there's something that you have fear around, there is some aspect of yourself that you don't feel comfortable or confident with in terms of performing with that thing. And so, literally, what we need to do is take that aspect— or take that thing— and put enough stress, put enough stimulus into it that you can actually see for yourself.

Not because I tell you, not because another coach tells you, but see for yourself through the training that you're doing, through the work that you're doing, that that thing is prepared and ready for what you're going to ask it to do, whether that's 100 impulses, 200 impulses, 500 impulse, or holding for five minutes, seven minutes, three weeks, right? Like whatever it is, there is something that we can do where you get to a point where you know, for sure, without a doubt, that thing is ready to do what you're going to ask it to do. 

And that is the point that we want to get to. So, like throwing, jumping, sprinting, your sport, whatever it is, the training, the exercises, things that we do there are designed to prepare you for that. And that can't happen if you're having fear around it. We can get to that point. We just have to make sure that we actually put in the stimulus that gets you there.