Elite athletes know something about fun that average athletes aren’t willing to accept. Doing what it takes to become an elite athlete is not and will never be fun. Winning is fun, but putting your mind and body through the training pain required to win at an elite level is not. Author Geoff Colvin writes […]
It appears that all elite athletes are elite as a result of their physical skills. However, elite physical skills are the norm, not the exception at the highest level of athletics. The typical elite athlete wins because of their mental edge, not because of their physical edge. As 2x NCAA wrestling champion Isaiah Martìnez suggest, […]
Yesterday I came across an Instagram post that provided an often ignored truth about hard work that reinforces something that I often write about. This post was from Isaiah Martìnez, a 4x NCAA All-American, 4x NCAA wrestling finalist, and 2x NCAA wrestling champion. Martinez wrote the following: There are so many wrestlers (myself included) that […]