Burnout and overtraining are two of the biggest reasons why athletes fail to reach their potential. They both lead to dramatic performance declines and they both can lead to injury. In addition, both burnout and overtraining develop because coaches and parents are not paying attention to the physical and mental impacts of an athlete’s schedule. […]
To help athletes focus on the process, coaches must teach them that the path to success is to control the controllables and not to worry about things that are uncontrollable. Correspondingly, the process is controllable, and the outcome is uncontrollable. Underachievers are the ones who give control of their successes and failures to uncontrollable factors. […]
A self-fulfilling prophecy is the psychology of how group expectations become that group’s reality. In other words, when enough people expect something to happen their behavior changes in a way that makes it happen. Today, as I was glancing through my notes of the classic mindset book Mind Gym by Gary Mack, I was reminded […]