There is a simple truth about confidence that people who continue to struggle with it need to know. The amount of confidence you have in the future is 100% within your control. On the other hand, there is little you can do about the amount of confidence you have right now. Therefore, all your energy […]
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 […]
When an athlete’s effort decreases when challenges increase this means this athlete has an ego goal orientation mindset. Moreover, this ego centric behavior is what sports psychologist call rescinding effort. Rescinding effort is when an athlete seeks to protect their ego by intentionally not giving their best effort. These athletes do this so they can […]