A good friend who happens to be a wrestling coach shared a tweet with me this morning so juicy I had to write about it today. It was a video of Olympic bronze medalist and current wrestling coach Tervel Dlagnev talking to an audience about what wrestling coaches say to wrestlers during a match. Dlagnev […]
Too often coaches teach young athletes to view mental toughness only through the lens of sports. As a result, athletes limit their perception of a mentally tough athlete to only a few attributes such as: thriving in the clutch, pushing through the pain of injury or fatigue, and overcoming adversity with grace. Yes, all these […]
I don’t have to tell you about the importance of practice. That’s obvious. What’s not so obvious is why sometimes practice makes you better and sometimes it doesn’t. Well, today I came across an insightful article Learning to Learn by Elizabeth Ligon Bjork, a psychology professor at UCLA. Bjork shares a fundamental truth about practice […]