This morning I got an email asking me why I write about pain and pain tolerance so often. This email was in response to my article yesterday Current Pain Tolerance Does Not Dictate Future Pain Tolerance. That article was my 25th article covering an aspect of pain and pain tolerance. So, yes, it’s true. I […]
Just because one athlete can push through pain better than another does not mean their future pain tolerance is a fait accompli. Research shows that it’s possible to increase pain tolerance. The first way to increase pain tolerance is to use positive training pain. Positive training pain is training to intentionally create non-threatening pain to […]
A few days ago I wrote about the mindset you need to increase your pain tolerance. Today I want to go into the process of increasing your pain tolerance. Once your mindset is oriented to understand the difference between positive pain vs. negative pain, and your mindset accepts that you must experience positive pain to […]