Jordan Burroughs is the greatest American freestyle wrestler of this generation. He is an Olympic wrestling champion, a 5x world champion, and just won his 9th world medal in total. Yesterday, in his post-match interview, Burroughs dropped several meaningful nuggets of wisdom, so I highly recommend you watch the full video. However, one short quote […]
Managing the pain of fatigue in sports is 100% mental. This is not to say that the physical capacity of one’s muscles and lungs don’t matter. Athletes must be physically capable of enduring the stress of fatigue. However, one’s ability to endure the stress of fatigue changes as their mindset changes. An athlete could learn […]
What separates fundamental skills from all other skills is that without them, your strengths don’t matter. Once a competitor exposes the fact that you lack fundamentals, it’s over. There is no compensating for a weakness in fundamentals. Moreover, there is no process of improvement that can circumvent mastering the fundamentals. In addition, although the fundamentals […]