In a coach’s mind, as their athletes are drilling skills repetitively, there is a goal for accuracy, speed, and efficiency. Yet, in the athletes mind these goals are vague. The athlete is doing their best to repeat the drills to some mythical standard of excellence that keeps the coach from yelling at them. That’s pretty […]
It doesn’t matter how often you talk to athletes about mental toughness, it will never be enough if you don’t teach them specifically what it means to be mentally tough. Moreover, lacking mental toughness is not a problem that solves itself. There are specific ingredients athletes need to build mental toughness. Yes, sometimes life randomly […]
Many athletes develop the mindset that failure is not an option. This mindset typically stems from an athlete having elite success from a young age. Then, as the athlete continues to experience elite success with little to no lessons of failure, expectations from coaches, parents, and internally from the athlete go sky high. Ultimately, this […]