By and large, when things not under your control dictate your confidence, you are dealing with limiting beliefs. Limiting beliefs are opinions you have that you treat as fact. However, the fact is that these opinions are just mental barriers preventing you from seeing the facts. For example, if you lack confidence because of past […]
When an athlete hears the word conditioning, they automatically think about physical endurance. In essence, conditioning is just a shorthand way of describing the process of pushing one’s body to the point of complete fatigue and then pushing as far past that point as one can withstand. While this description of conditioning is accurate, it’s […]
I wrote yesterday that the only way to get an athlete to enjoy the process is to make the process the athlete’s goal. The reason for this is that process goals are within an athlete’s control, while outcome goals are not. Furthermore, anytime an athlete focuses too much on things not within their control such […]