The Sport That Makes You Mentally Unbreakable

What does boxing actually teach you? What does boxing actually teach you? Confidence. Control. How to lose well. And how to stop your mind running away with you. Steve Barnes is the founder of Pound for Pound Boxing Club in Southampton, a coach to national champions, pros, school kids and everyone in between. In this conversation we get into the real stuff: anxiety before a fight, the Fear Bubble technique used by Special Forces, why motivation is a myth, and how boxing builds the kind of mental strength that changes your whole life. Whether you've never thrown a punch or you've been in the ring - this one's for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ The PerformWell Podcast - real conversations about performance and wellness. The push and the recovery. The grind and the calm. Hosted by coach and hybrid athlete Nick Finch. New episodes weekly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ Guest: Steve Barnes - Pound for Pound Palace, Southampton 🎙️ Co-Host: Grant McDonald - Built From Within, Southampton 📍 Filmed at: Pound for Pound Palace, Southampton ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe for weekly conversations on performance, mindset and what it takes to change. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 Follow us: Nick Finch:    / @getfitbynick     / getfitbynick   Grant McDonald:   / coach_grantmcdonald   Steve Barnes:   / pfp_palace   https://thepfpteam.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 – Welcome to Pound for Pound 4:24 – What boxing taught Steve about losing 6:50 – Training national champions & the journey so far 11:57 – Finding control in chaos 17:31 – How to deal with a fighter who won't listen 21:54 – Hampshire level to national titles 23:28 – The Fear Bubble (Ant Middleton) 28:00 – Stop waiting for motivation 33:00 – Mind vs body: which matters more? 38:00 – How coaching has changed over 25 years 45:34 – Enjoy what you've built 50:00 – Nutrition without the overhaul 55:00 – Pound for Pound - what's next ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎵 Music: Break Limit by Soundridemusic Link to Video: • Epic Cinematic Trailer Teaser No Copyright... #boxing #mindset #confidence #performwellpodcast #performwell #mentalhealth #motivation