Category Archives: Mental Toughness
REVIEW: Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory
Let Your Mind Run – a book you gotta get! Continue reading
Dreadmills aka Treadmills – Great Resource
Love them or hate them (dreadmills). Essential to surviving your winters in some semblance of fitness in the north; and ditto to surviving summers in the scorching summers in the southwest. Treadmills. I did a 10 mile run on a … Continue reading
Mental Toughness and Patience
Mental toughness most often described as that ability to push through pain or discomfort or to hang in there when the going gets tough. But mental toughness is not that narrow of a construct. One other form or aspect of … Continue reading
Coaches, parents, runners – who needs mental game training more?
I’ve seen a lot over my years of coaching youth runners, directing running camps, working with parents and other coaches. I have indeed seen the proverbial good, the bad and the ugly. In almost every case there is no malice or … Continue reading
I perform well when…
How often do you say something like the following: I do better when I’m the underdog. I do better when I come from behind. I do better when no one expects me to do well. I do better when I … Continue reading
Mental or Physical Training First?
When athletes and parents come to me to help them with their mental game; I often get the question “when is the best time to start mental game training”. Should you get in shape first and then add mental game … Continue reading