How Elite Athletes Become Elite – Learning to Endure Pain

If you want to know how elite athletes become elite, you must first understand how elite athletes learn to endure pain. This is according to author Malcolm Gladwell and elite runner Alex Hutchinson.  These two recently discussed this when talking to each other about what separates top athletes from the rest. Alex Hutchinson states: You […]

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The Pain of Starting Wrestling Season 0-4

My son is a youth wrestler and he started this season with 4 straight losses. He’s a beginner, 7 years old,  and he hates to lose. I had to give it everything I had today to keep him from crying after his two losses.  A few weeks ago it was the same thing. What he […]

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