Just because an athlete is mentally tough today, does not mean that athlete will be mentally tough tomorrow. Mental toughness is a muscle and just like all muscles atrophy will ensue if you don’t exercise it. Simply stated, use it, or lose it. Therefore, it’s important that all athletes work on their mental toughness even […]
It’s quite common for athletes to talk to themselves. Mental skill coaches call this “self-talk”. All athletes use self-talk, but some use it in a way that helps them, and others use it in a way that hurts them. When an athlete uses self-talk to hurt themselves, they talk to themselves with language that drives […]
You don’t get comfortable being uncomfortable just because you listen to a TED talk or a David Goggins YouTube video. Getting comfortable being uncomfortable requires a process, and that process begins by using positive training pain. Positive training pain is training to intentionally create pain that 1) won’t cause injury and 2) ultimately leads to […]