I often like to remind athletes that not all performance enhancers are illegal. In fact, I would argue legal performance enhancers are more beneficial than the illegal ones. Case in point is pain tolerance. Athletes forget that pain tolerance is a performance enhancer. Those athletes who can condition their body longer in the face of […]
The average athlete thinks there is some magical difference between how they feel pain and how elite athletes feel pain. The average athlete thinks elite athletes feel less pain when doing the same work as them. It’s almost like they think elite athletes have some special gene that allows them to be numb to pain. […]
Pain tolerance is one of the most important ingredients in an athlete’s mental toughness. Mental toughness is a character trait athletes must earn by successfully completing activities that require mental toughness. These activities include those that cause uncomfortable emotions that trigger fear, fatigue, stress, and even boredom. If an athlete can’t deal with the pain […]