The mental side of fatigue starts with body language and self-talk. If you don’t work on the mental side of conditioning against fatigue, the physical side is less effective. This is not to say that the physical capacity of one’s muscles and lungs matter less. Unquestionably, athletes must be physically capable of enduring the stress […]
Fatigue is one of the key factors that separates the good from the great in sports. The biggest, strongest, and fastest athletes are only a shell of themselves once fatigue causes exhaustion. Moreover, an athlete may be in the best physical shape of their life and still become exhausted prematurely. The reason for this is […]
When an athlete’s ego dominates their mindset, they have no control over their self-esteem. The ego locks into comparing oneself to others. Self-esteem then feeds off how one feels about these comparisons. So, the more success an athlete has the harder it becomes to satisfy their self-esteem and the more failure an athlete has the […]