Growing up as an athlete I was socialized to believe that being humble is a preferred virtue. For the vast majority of my life, I viewed being humble as a character trait that all great athletes must have. But now that I am a mental skills coach, I now know that being humble is not […]
There is a major problem you must overcome when competing in an environment where everyone is elite, and everyone is doing what it takes to be the winner. Someone must lose. While this is obvious on the surface, what’s not so obvious is that as much as you think you have control over your chance […]
Research suggest that fatigue is far more of a mental state than most people realize. The things you do as a habit with your body language and self-talk play an important role in dictating the impact of fatigue on performance. This is not rocket science either, coaches with experience intuitively know what to tell athletes […]