The High Performance Podcast The Man Behind Bodø/Glimt's Champions League Miracle | Bjørn Mannsverk (E407)
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May 4, 2026 
Bjørn Mannsverk, a former F-16 pilot turned performance coach who rebuilt Bodø/Glimt, shares how military mindsets reshaped a tiny club. He describes awareness training, friction meetings, the on-pitch 'Ring' refocus, distributed leadership and how ditching results-talk fueled extraordinary European upsets. Short, startling stories of culture, rituals and radical clarity.
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Fighter Pilot Mental Training Transformed A Football Club
- Bjørn Mannsverk transferred fighter-pilot mental training to football to fix a 'collective mental collapse' at Bodø/Glimt.
- He discovered the club learned about his squadron's mindfulness project nearby and adopted it after relegation in 2016.
Stop Chasing Results Focus On Controllables
- Avoid obsessing over results; train focus on controllable performance inputs instead.
- Bodø/Glimt stopped setting season targets from 2019 and redirected energy to nutrition, recovery, intensity and being present.
Use Mindfulness To Rapidly Recover Focus
- Do regular mindfulness awareness training to improve presence and rapid refocusing during performance.
- Bodø/Glimt meditated together to learn to spot lost focus quickly and return attention to the task.