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Every athlete trains their body, but how many train their mind? Mental Performance Playbook breaks down elite mental strategies used by top performers and gives you simple, actionable exercises to apply immediately. Hosted by Gabe Rummel, Mental Performance Coach, Founder of The Athletes Health™, and creator of it's Phronoic Gym™, where athletes train their minds like they train their bodies. Whether you’re looking to reset after mistakes, boost focus under pressure, or build unshakable confidence, this playbook has you covered.
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Signup to Generate a PitchEvery athlete trains their body, but how many train their mind? Mental Performance Playbook breaks down elite mental strategies used by top performers and gives you simple, actionable exercises to apply immediately. Hosted by Gabe Rummel, Mental Performance Coach, Founder of The Athletes Health™, and creator of it's Phronoic Gym™, where athletes train their minds like they train their bodies.
Mental Performance Playbook is hosted by Gabe Rummel, The Athletes Health. The show has published 187 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "1% For the 1%, What the Top Athletes Do Every Day | Ep. 191" (29 October 2026, 11 minutes), "Your Pre-Game Routine Should Work Like Your Bedtime Routine | Ep. 190" (28 October 2026, 10 minutes), and "The Forgetting Curve and How Athletes Make Mental Training Stick | Ep. 189" (27 October 2026, 17 minutes).
Mental Performance Playbook publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 15 minutes across 187 episodes.
Booking probability for Mental Performance Playbook is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Mental Performance Playbook requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Mental Performance Playbook's contact route on record: verified email.
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Gabe Rummel, The Athletes Health hosts Mental Performance Playbook, a sports podcast with 187 episodes published.
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Mental Performance Playbook
What do the top 1% of athletes have in common? It isn't a secret drill or a better trainer. It's what they do with every single day. Welcome to Day 11 of 75 on the Mental Performance Playbook. Every day until January 1...
Some of the best players on the team are getting worked up before the game even starts. The talent is there, but the emotions are flying and the results aren't showing up. The fix might be something they already do...
Your athlete learns a great mental exercise on Monday. By Friday's game, it's gone. That's not a lack of effort, it's how the brain works, and there's a way to beat it. Welcome to Day 9 of 75 on the Mental Performance...
Coach yells something from the sideline. One athlete hears it as help. Another hears it as proof they're about to get benched. Same words, two totally different voices in their head. Welcome to Day 8 of 75 on the Mental...
Your athlete puts in the work every day and it feels like nothing is changing. Same results, same spot on the depth chart. Then one season it all clicks, and everyone asks what changed. Welcome to Day 7 of 75 on the...
One bad pitch turns into two. A strikeout turns into a slump. By the late innings, your athlete is in their head and the tears come after the game. That spiral can start at any level, from pee-wee to the pros. Welcome...
Mental Performance Playbook
Every athlete gets told to be accountable. Almost nobody shows them how. Accountability isn't something you have or don't have, it's something you build one day at a time, like links in a chain. Welcome to Day 5 of 75...
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Your athlete walks past the same water bottle on the floor every day. Every time they see it and leave it, it takes a little bit of mental energy. Stack enough of those small drains and there's nothing left for game...
Practice already runs on a schedule. Warm-up, main drill, water break, next drill. Every block has a job. So why does the rest of an athlete's day feel like chaos? Welcome to Day 3 of 75 on the Mental Performance...
Every new skill feels hard at first. You think about every step, every grip, every movement, and your brain gets tired fast. That is not a sign you're bad at it. It's a sign you're early in the process. Welcome to Day 2...
Mental Performance Playbook
Two teammates, same drill, same coach. One treats practice like a playoff game. The other coasts because the big game isn't until Friday. Guess which one shows up when it counts. In this episode of the Mental...
Mental Performance Playbook
New season, new team, new plays. The coach puts in three sets at practice, and by the car ride home half of it is gone. In this episode of the Mental Performance Playbook, Gabe Rummel heads back to the whiteboard to...
Mental Performance Playbook Episode 178. Brought to you by TAH. It's midseason. Legs are heavy, bodies are banged up, and every athlete is asking the same question. Do I push through this or not? In this episode of the...
Mental Performance Playbook Episode 177. Brought to you by TAH. In episode 177 of the Mental Performance Playbook, Gabe Rummel heads to the whiteboard and breaks down three key brain areas behind performance under...
Mental Performance Playbook
Mental Performance Playbook Episode 176. Brought to you by TAH. Great practice, bad game, scouts in the stands. Any one of these can knock a student athlete off their game, even the good ones. In this episode of the...
Mental Performance Playbook Episode 175. Brought to you by TAH. The game comes down to who gets the most good reps, and those reps do not have to happen on the field, court, track, mat, or water. In this episode of the...
Episode #174
Mental Performance Playbook Episode 174. Brought to you by TAH (The Athletes Health). Your athlete's attention goes somewhere every second of the game. The only question is whether they're steering it or it's steering...
Mental Performance Playbook Episode 173. Brought to you by TAH (The Athletes Health). Most problems in sports don't come from bad talent. They come from a definition nobody agreed on. In this episode, Gabe breaks down...
Episode #172
Mental Performance Playbook Episode 172. Brought to you by The Athletes Health. Every quarterback carries a curse. No time to celebrate the touchdown. No time to sulk over the interception. The next play is already...
Ever wonder why some athletes push past limits while others quit before their body ever taps out? In this episode (170) of the Mental Performance Playbook, Gabe Rummel, founder of The Athletes Health, breaks down the...
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