There are an infinite number of ways to define success. If you ask 50 people to define success, you will get 50 different answers. Correspondingly, success is a lot like beauty as it’s in the eye of the beholder. But even though it’s in the eye of the beholder, there is one common thread between […]
It’s a fundamental truth that consistency is a requirement for excellence and routines are a requirement for consistency. Routines require discipline, self-control, and willpower to repeat consistently. This means that routines are not instinctive like habits and require that one pushes themself through some form of friction or pain. When athletes don’t have routines, the […]
Coaches with experience intuitively know what to tell athletes who visually show signs of fatigue to help them keep pushing. When a coach tells athletes things like “no pain, no gain”, “mind over matter”, or “keep your head up” it’s not coaches’ speak or pseudo-science. Fatigue is the great equalizer in sports. The biggest, strongest, […]