90% Mental: The Way of a Wrestling Guru

By Chris Lembeck

The world’s first and only wrestling specific mind-optimization System that puts to work for you the most potent sports tool ever, your subconscious mind. Apply and receive instant, dramatic and permanent improvement in the most effective and efficient way possible, the inside out. A quick, entertaining and enlightening read that many are calling the future of wrestling...now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chris Lembeck
• Release date: Jul 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311259578

Chris Lembeck

Chris grew up in Bloomington, Minnesota with three brothers and one sister. He had many interests, but one mainstay was the sport of wrestling in which he immediately fell in love. Under the guidance of world class instructors Chris won countless youth titles, was a two time undefeated high school state champion and earned a world silver medal at the world championships in Stockholm, Sweden. At the University of Northern Iowa Chris served as a team captain and earned All American honors by placing fifth in the country in Ames, Iowa. Chris has spent much of his adult life helping wrestlers achieve extraordinary success. Chris has coached at all levels of wrestling from youth to division one college and has been featured in numerous national wrestling stages including Take Down Media with Scott Casber, USA Wrestling magazine and Amateur Wrestling News. Chris was inducted into the Minnesota Hall of Fame in 2015. He currently lives in Marion, Iowa where he coaches a wrestling club and serves as a consultant to many elite coaches, teams and athletes across the country.Professional• Author 90% Mental – The Way of a Wrestling Guru• Founder Optimized Wrestling Systems, The Way to World Class• 21-Time published author, including Des Moines Register, Amateur Wrestling News and Wrestling USA Magazine• Coaching Recognition USA Today Newspaper• Coaching Recognition Wrestling USA Magazine• Coaching Recognition Amateur Wrestling News Magazine• Featured speaker TakeDown Media Internet news show with Scott Casber• Featured guest Dan Gable International Museum talk show Matt Talk• Featured guest Mat Time Weekly radio show, Union City, PennsylvaniaEducation• Master’s Degree, Education Administration, Missouri State University, 1995• Bachelor’s Degree, Physical Education, University of Northern Iowa, 1989• 5 completed Success Seminars The Learning Annex, Minneapolis, Minnesota• High School Diploma, Kennedy High School, Bloomington, Minnesota, 1984Early Years• U.S. World Team Member and Greco Roman World Silver Medalist, Stockholm, Sweden• 2X Undefeated Minnesota High School State Champion (33-0, 35-0 – Career 146-7)• 4X Junior Olympics Freestyle and Greco Roman Champion• 9X National AAU National and Grand National Champion – Greco Roman & Freestyle• Voted Minnesota’s Outstanding High School Wrestler• Minnesota High School Wrestling Hall of Fame Inductee• Bloomington Kennedy High School Wrestling Hall of FameCollege Competitor• NCAA All-American, University of Northern Iowa, Ames, Iowa• Team Captain, University of Northern Iowa Wrestling Team• Most Improved Wrestler University of Northern Iowa• US Open Freestyle Championships 5th Place Las Vegas, Nevada• University Freestyle Nationals Silver Medalist, Las Vegas, NevadaCoaching• 2X Iowa High School Team State Champions—Lisbon, Iowa• Iowa High School Dual State Champions – Lisbon, IA• Coached 5 Iowa High School Individual State Champions• Coached 17 Iowa High School State Place-winners• Coached AAU Team State Champions, All-American Wrestling Club• Iowa National Duals Team Co-Coach—Kingsport, Tennessee

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What People Are Saying About

90% Mental

A unique and fresh wrestling book with intriguing true stories and the best wrestling mind system I’ve seen.

~Chuck Yagla, 2X National Champion

University of Iowa

Lembeck’s book is a virtual road map to optimizing your mental game. 1-2-3... Buy the book! Tsssss...

~Mike Krause

National Youth Coach of the Year

"The one aspect that sets apart the good from the great is the mental aspect. I've read a few mental training books before, but none compare to The Way of a Wrestling Guru. I’ve implemented G’s M.O. and am already seeing phenomenal results. It’s a great book for any and all wrestlers, and I highly recommend it."

~Alyssa Lampe

USA Women’s Wrestling Champion 48 KG

"Evolving as a young coach, I have spent more time these past three years working on our mental edge and our mental preparation than ever before. I wish I would have had this information and understood the importance of mental training back when I competed. 90% Mental is the ‘how to’ on winning the mental game."

~Dave Malecek, Head Wrestling Coach

University of Wisconsin, Lacrosse

90% Mental…

The Way of a

Wrestling Guru

CHRIS LEMBECK

90% Mental…

The Way of a Wrestling Guru

Copyright © 2016 by Chris Lembeck

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever including Internet usage, without written permission of the author.

Cover design by Lauran Shinn

Book design by Maureen Cutajar

Please note that several of the quotes in the book are not credited to an author. The lion’s share of these quotes with no name should be attributed to the original and fantastically famous authors from which they were inspired.

A smidgeon of the credit might also go with the guru, for he says the quotes are both a gentle reminder and a fun example of how even a small change to something, anything, can have an amazingly profound effect.

Moreover, I believe the guru, in true consummate teacher fashion, uses these quotes to also show us the uniquely close and harmonious relationship that he feels exists between the two things he loves the most – wrestling and life.

Please enjoy.

Dedication

To the 200 + mentors, teachers and guides, both dead and alive who’ve helped me learn the winning mindset to wrestling and beyond. And to the two awesome angels who came down from heaven to help me write and especially complete this book. Your support, encouragement and undying faith made a believer of me and for this I am eternally grateful.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1.

Because Questions Are the Answer

Chapter 2.

The Truth about Wrestling

A. Technical

B. Physical

C. Mental

Inspiration (and Self-Image!) are the One

A. 90 percent Mental

B. THINK like a Champion

C. Reverse ABC’s

D. Burning Desire

E. Self-Advertisement

Chapter 3.

Now Enter the Wrestling Guru

A. 101 of All-Time and Space

B. Wrestling’s Collective Consciousness

C. The Gods Have It

D. The Perfect Blend

E. Napoleon, Zig, and Maxwell Walk into a Bar

Chapter 4.

Wrestling’s Top Secret

A. Focus on the Positive

B. Insistence, Resistance, and Persistence

C. Hidden Gemstones

Chapter 5.

YOU Make the Call

A. 3 Situations 2 Make 1 Think

B. You vs. the Guru

C. Technically Speaking

Chapter 6.

Keepin’ It Simple

A. I Said Simple, Not Easy

B. Feelin’ like a Champ

C. PTMS—What is Post-Traumatic Match Syndrome?

Chapter 7.

The Soulful, Woeful and Goalful Goal Story

A. Power, Precision, and Temperament

B. Lessons in Pain

C. Wrestling’s Yellow Brick Road

D. Minnesota States of Mind

Chapter 8.

The Dake Report

A. The Secret of Success

B. By the Numbers

C. Affirming Affirmations Affirm

D. That’s Genius!

E. Stuart Who?

Chapter 9.

The Final Chapter

A. Applied Genius-ology

B. Leveraging Sleep Time

C. Optimizing A and E

D. Expanding the SI

E. Edit, Evolve, Repeat

F. Your Championship ID

G. True Wrestling Enlightenment

Chapter 10.

The Master Plan

A. The Pocket Card

B. The Wallet Card

C. The Car Dash

D. The Locker Ad

E. The Notebook

F. The Goal Poster

About the Author

"You must become the change you want to see in the wrestling world."

~Mahatma Gandhi…and the wrestling guru

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to wrestle."

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to wrestling greatness; not beginning, and not going all the way."

Introduction

WRESTLING IS THE world’s oldest and greatest sport. In its seed, wrestling is a potent form of expression and similar to painting masterpieces, composing symphonies, or writing great prose, it’s a graceful form of art. Wrestling is poetry in motion. Moreover, even though there are limited types of bodies, a healthy set of rules and only one objective, you’ll never see two wrestling styles exactly the same—kind of like snowflakes. Within a living, breathing, and thriving matrix of focused thought and infinite possibilities dwells a dancing and ever-expanding universe of wrestling energy. It is eclipsed only by its endless levels of unseen works embodied in a constant, unwavering and passionate pursuit of perfection.

In a way, due to wrestling’s great physical and mental demands, it’s amazingly close to the collective consciousness, the infinite Source, God. God’s most cherished