The Coach Behind the Champions
Chase Kough is a mental performance coach with 20+ years of experience training Olympic athletes, world champions, and high performers worldwide.
Chase Kough | Elite Mental Performance Coach
In 2007, I was twenty-four years old, coaching at a five-thousand-square-foot gym in central Florida. I had no marketing, no network, and not a single professional athlete on my roster. I was still cleaning equipment and making smoothies between sessions.
Then Tyson Gay walked through the door. The fastest man in America. Double world champion. He was not looking for me --- he was simply looking for a strength coach. Sixty days earlier, I had pointed at a television screen and told my girlfriend I wanted to train that guy. She smiled and nodded.
That moment changed everything. Not because of luck. Because of something invisible, precise, and completely teachable.
Coach of Olympic & World Champion Athletes
Over the next two decades, I coached 30 Olympic and World Championship medalists across track and field, MLB, the LPGA, wakeboarding, water skiing, basketball, and equestrian. Steven Gardiner, Olympic 400-meter champion. Shaunae Miller-Uibo, back-to-back Olympic gold medalist. Tyson Gay, the fastest American ever. Prince Fielder, six-time MLB All-Star. Olympic gold medalists in sprints and hurdles. LPGA major champions. World champions in water skiing and wakeboarding. NBA players.
For the first decade, I watched. I coached these world-class athletes day after day and began to see patterns of thought, language, and belief that the best of them shared without even realizing it. The second decade, I built those patterns into a system --- studying them against science, Scripture, and the universal laws that govern everything.
That system is the GOAT Mind.
Your mind is your ultimate tool.
BELIEF #1
Your mind is your ultimate tool.
Thoughts are not passive. Science shows they reshape your brain. Scripture confirms their power. The laws amplify them. Control what happens in your mind, and you control what happens in your life.
BELIEF #2
Principles do not bend --- they build empires.
The universal laws are as real as gravity. They operate whether you understand them or not. High achievers do not chase results. They align with the principles that produce them.
BELIEF #3
Everyone is a GOAT
--- no exceptions.
Potential is not reserved for the gifted. Every athlete I have coached started somewhere ordinary. The system works for anyone willing to do the work --- regardless of age, background, or starting point.
The GOAT Mind sits at the intersection of three forces:
1. Science
Neuroplasticity, flow states, the measurable effects of language on the brain and body. The research confirms what works and why.
2. Scripture
The timeless principles declared thousands of years before modern science caught up. The blueprint was always there.
3. Universal Law
The invisible rules that govern energy, vibration, and cause and effect. As precise as gravity. As impartial as physics.
These three forces point at the same truth from three different directions. The GOAT Mind is the system that puts them to work in your daily life.
EXPLORE PROGRAMSMental Performance Coach Credentials & Results
- Over 20 years of elite coaching
- 30 Olympic and World Championship medalists
- Athletes across 5 continents and 12+ countries
- Sports: track & field, MLB, LPGA, NBA, wakeboarding, water skiing, equestrian
- Featured speaker at Perform Better national conferences
- Clients include Olympic gold medalists, professional athletes, and NBA players
- B.S. in Exercise Science, Oral Roberts University
- Founder, P360 Performance
