There is a major problem you must overcome when competing in an environment where everyone is elite, and everyone is doing what it takes to be the winner. Someone must lose. While this is obvious on the surface, what’s not so obvious is that as much as you think you have control over your chance […]
Research suggest that fatigue is far more of a mental state than most people realize. The things you do as a habit with your body language and self-talk play an important role in dictating the impact of fatigue on performance. This is not rocket science either, coaches with experience intuitively know what to tell athletes […]
Competition Day as Judgement Day: Athletes who treat competition day as a day of judgement are prone to have both a fixed mindset as well as an ego oriented mindset. The outcome of the competition will either be a success or a failure. If the outcome is a success, then these athletes assume their process […]