Mental Fitness Training for Athletes

Jodi’s team mental fitness training equips athletes with tools to control the controllable (and let the rest go), identify and reduce stressors, let go of perfectionism, and increase resilience.

Get (Mentally) Fit.

Looking for Jodi’s small group zoom sessions for coaches and athletes? Check out the Coaches Circle and Empowered Athlete Series pages.

You wouldn’t neglect physical fitness, so why neglect mental fitness? The truth is, mindset has a massive impact on an athlete’s performance, and it can be enhanced through training — just like lifting weights.

I played on a collegiate softball team that was #1 in the country for six weeks my senior year. I was a four-year starter and team captain. We lost the last regional game to go to the Women’s College World Series.  A heartbreaker. However with time, you get over the loss and remember all the fun you had with your teammates and coaches.  It was really about the relationships and memories created! After graduating, I coached collegiate softball for 12 years, and during that time had the opportunity to coach in the College World Series twice! Redemption! I also learned a thing or two about high-performing teams — they’re not only physically fit, they’re mentally fit too.

When I discovered the power of meditation in my own life years later, I knew I needed to share it. The science behind meditation and mindfulness practices coupled with visualization and breathwork is astounding. I started training my first collegiate softball team in the fall of 2021, and in the Spring of 2023, they went to the Women’s College World Series! I watched as they became more calm and confident over those two seasons. They gained emotional control when things didn’t go their way, and they had an ability to bounce back quicker than in the past.  IT WAS AMAZING. They placed 3rd in the country and are back at it with high goals!   

In 2022 I started training my first collegiate Clay Target Team and they became DIVISION III NATIONAL CHAMPIONS in 2023! They were open-minded to incorporate mindfulness/meditation and yoga into their weekly and daily practice! Being calm and centered to shoot a gun at a really small target helps! In 2024 they achieved DIVISION II RUNNER UP HONORS!

Now, I started to offer Mental Fitness Training for teams in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, metro and surrounding areas. I’ve worked with collegiate softball and trapshooting teams, high school golf teams, softball teams, baseball teams and more! I also do one-on-one sessions with athletes and currently run a youth feeder softball program where I get to sprinkle in all this goodness with youth coaches.

Mental Fitness Training Packages

Total Mindset Package

You can contact me directly and we can figure out what works best for your team or program! Multiple Sessions offered based off team needs!

I have the ability to lead sessions on the following:

  • Stress- How it Shows up and Ways to Alleviate It

  • How To Control the Controllable: Process over Outcome

  • Your Mindset Matters: Average vs. Elite

  • Core Principles and how Core Principles Play a Role in Championship Team

  • John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success

  • Feedback/Criticism/ How the Story that is Played in your Head Matters

  • Gratitude and Its Role in Elevating your Game

  • Leadership On and Off the Court

  • Teamwork makes the DREAM Work: Why being a good teammate matters both on the court and in your head

  • The Science Behind Why Athletes Who Train their Brain Perform at a Higher Level

  • How to Overcome a Stressful Moment on the Field /Court

  • Understanding your Role and the Importance of Making a Positive Impact

  • Intention and Accountability

  • How ENERGY plays a role in every game. Body language matters

  • Goal Setting

Recorded practices are included

  • Breath awareness practice

  • Body scan practice

  • Visualization practice in respective sport

  • Seeing Greatness Happen-in respective sport

  • Positive Intention Practice

Mental Fitness Basics Package

Train your team on the most important aspects of mindset, stress management and resiliency with recorded practices, short lessons, and an in-person session with Jodi, and watch as your team’s performance improves.

Recorded practices:

  • Breath awareness practice

  • Body scan meditation

  • Visualization practice

Short recorded lessons:

  • Resiliency: It’s a muscle you can build

  • Knowing your Role/Flow State and why it works

  • How to Control the Controllable

In-person session:

  • Hour-long one-on-one session with the team on stress, how it shows up in the body and ways to alleviate it through mental training

“Thank you so much for training us this year! It was such a competitive advantage, and having a person who really knew how to coach it was the difference maker.”

— Patrick Cory, Coe College trap shooting coach, after finishing as Division II National Runner Up, seven targets ahead of the US Military Academy