“I’m a people person, I love learning about why people are doing what they are doing, what motivates them. You can take the best athletes in the world and they will have different reasons for doing what they are doing. For me, I love understanding why people do what the do, and I love taking the things I’ve worked so hard to learn about, the knowledge that I have, the experience that I have, the science and the technology and all the things we have access to here and helping people figure out which solutions are potentially options for them at this point to get them to where they want to be. If I can take some of the confusion and the misguided information out of the picture and help boil it down to say you know, here’s where we are at, here’s where we want to be and let’s create a plan that works for you based on your goals, your objectives, your unique psychology, where you’re at in your career or whether it’s recreational or whatever it is. But how do we create a solution that your excited about, that you genuinely want to have as part of your life.
To me, psychology and mindset is so huge whether your training for something on the performance side, whether you’re rehabbing an injury, whether you are getting rid of a disease or illness, whatever the solution that someone is proposing to you has been right for getting you into the right scenario, the person got to be excited about it, they got to be motivated by it, they got to have something that keeps them coming back to it every single day. Unless you really know why they are doing what they are doing, what motivates them, you are going to have a hard time giving that to them. So for me, that’s the part that keeps me alive because that’s human, it’s very human, it’s what makes you you, what makes them them, what makes you stand here and see stories of people instead of seeing barbells, dumbbells and bands. You see people who have had dreams and visions of doing something in a place. To me, my dream is that there is eventually enough connection between the people that come into the same place where they recognize different elements of their own story in other people, younger people, maybe older people or people who are going through different circumstances and they feel like there is a connection there. The happiest times for me have been when we have a bunch of players (I run the Hockey program here) who are a little bit older in their careers, they were more mature, maybe they retired already and they’ve given some of their insights and feedback to some of the younger players, they’ve given them reason to dig deep, push for dreams and goals and objectives in ways that maybe they wouldn’t have dug that deep if they didn’t get that little push. To me, that’s so cool. When it runs by itself, just people helping other people, that’s the beauty of it.” – Molly O’Brien, Director of Strength and Conditioning at Fortius Sport and Health. (2/4)