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.

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!   

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 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

This is my most robust offering to train your team on the mental side of the game and enhance performance.

Includes everything in the Mental Fitness Basics package, plus:

Recorded practices:

  • Positive Intention practice

  • Visualization practice: See Great Things Happening

  • Gratitude meditation

Short recorded lessons:

  • The science behind improved performance in athletes who meditate

  • Your Mindset Matters: Letting go of the negative person who rents space in your head, and stepping into confidence

  • Perfectionism is just an opinion: Learn & Flush

Mental Fitness Basics Package

Train your team on the most important aspects of mindset, stress management and resilency 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 Controllables

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