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Mental Toughness
Know your strengths, identify your weaknesses
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Mental toughness in athletes is a hot topic and we always hear of athletes who are “mentally tough” thriving over their competition. It has been at the forefront of many studies and research papers.
It can be a way for athletes to understand their own capacity, strengths, weaknesses. It also crosses over into the world of business and work, helping managers, leaders and individuals understand the problems people and organizations face when faced with change and more importantly how they deal with it.
So what is Mental toughness and do you have it?
In their book “Developing Mental toughness” Doug Strycharczyk and Peter Clough claim there are 4 pillars to MT that you should be aware of.
CHALLENGE: Do you see challenge as an opportunity?
CONFIDENCE: Do you have high levels of self-belief?
COMMITMENT – Are you able to stick at tasks without slipping or wandering.
CONTROL: Do you believe that you can control your own destiny?
Research shows that some people are genetically ‘tougher’ than others and that is just hardwired into us. But the good news is that if you are NOT mentally tough you are not necessarily mentally weak! We can say you are mentally sensitive.
Mentally tough deal with pressure by not letting it get to them whereas the sensitive will feel uncomfortable in times of pressure or challenge.
Think about how you react on a start line of a race. How do you let the pressure of racing or hard training sessions get to you? Can you keep focus, not moan, push through a pain barrier, not give up when it gets tough, remain relaxed…
Ultimately, we are looking for our ‘ideal performance state’ and there are a few ways we can work towards that.
IMPROVE SELF AWARENESS: know your strengths, identify your weaknesses. Action plan for difficult situations in competition and practice that plan.
BECOME RESILIENT: Develop a refocusing routine to use to bounce back quickly from mistakes. If… then… Your goal is to achieve the same winning mindset in every situation.
INCREASE CONFIDENCE: Have your mind full of past successes and remember these tough situations in training
TOUGH THINKING: Master your self-talk and chose what thoughts you use. Recognise negative thinking and reframe it to positive.
PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE: Identify what skills (technical, physical and mental) you need to show up at your best when you really need it. Write them down, stick them somewhere prominent.
Just like training there are a lot of moving parts to developing mental toughness and just like building your aerobic base it will not happen overnight. It’s a process that if you put time and effort into, you will reap the rewards.
ENGINE
A sustained 50-minute aerobic workout designed to build your engine and endurance. Expect continuous movement across the bike, rower, ski erg, and running, all at a manageable, steady pace.
GYMNASTICS
This week is all about the bar! On Tuesday, we’ll continue working on pulling strength, followed by kipping and butterfly progressions. On Thursday, Bar Muscle Ups will make an appearance. Get ready for low bar drills, strength work and BMU progressions galore.
HYROX
A high-intensity session focused on building leg strength and muscular endurance. We will finish each movement with short runs to build resilience under fatigue.
MOBILITY
Back to the flows, yes, back in popular demand, I’m running it back. Full body stretching ended with stability/activation of course.
PURE STRENGTH
This week in Pure Strength, we kick off Monday with a heavy set of RDLS, followed by some Front squat volume, and then some frontal plane strength work. On Wednesday, we have some overcoming isometrics to kick our session off, followed by some cluster sets on the bench press, and then some push-pull accessory work.
WEIGHTLIFTING
Weightlifting this week is snatch; we are breaking down the movement. Starting with the 3-position snatch. Drilling the timings under the barbell. Followed by snatch pulls and a complex of behind-the-neck push press into OHS.
Monday Ride
A ride dedicated to group riding skills and some fitness. Coach Rob Foster leads this ride, if you'd like to join email Rob Foster
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: The Loop Cafe, Bike DXB
Track Tuesday
Our weekly on track speed session! For any level of runner looking to build their run speed, threshold and Vo2max fitness and run with the best running community in Dubai.
Time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Friday - Coffee Run
Our weekly tempo run. Sessions are built on an RPE scale and accessible to all levels of runner. We start together, run hard then finish together and chat about it over a coffee and breakfast.
Brief time: 05:54 am
Start time: 05:59 am
Start Location: Common Grounds
Saturday - Long Ride
Our weekly endurance ride.
Please email Rob Foster for more details.
Time: 05:59 am
Location: Bottom of the Stick, Al Qudra.
Monday
Time: 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Tempo
This week will be dialling into that Tempo effort (7/10 RPE) for 5 mins blocks. You will take a 2 min recovery after each block and repeat the sequence 5x.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Session: Track Tuesday
This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. This week we will be running 300m repeats at 3km pace, each with a very easy float between.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Intervals
Today we have intervals in the morning and evening. We will be running 100m effort through the park behind InnerFight, you will then have 300m easy/recovery before repeating the sequence.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Common Grounds
Session: The Coffee Run
This week we will be working on a negative split run. After 20 mins of easy running you will go into 1 min on, 1 min off intervals for 30 mins. Post session coffees at Common Grounds from 7am.
Monday:
Starting the week with some pressing tempo push-up work, followed by some bench press and death march, and then a strongman-style workout for an epic start to the week!
Strength:
A) EMOM x 8 - 3 to 5 tempo push-ups tempo @31x1
B) Every 90 sec x 10 alt between - 5 Barbell bench press @20x1 (building) & 16 alt DB death march
Conditioning:
For Time:
10-1 Sandbag Over Shoulder
1-10 Dumbbell STOH
Tuesday:
Tuesday, we have some sled work in the strength, and then some Interval work that will challenge your squat and pull endurance.
Strength:
A) 6 mins build to max triple broad jump
Rest 2 mins
B) Every 2 mins x 5 2 length sled push
Conditioning:
4 min window
30 sec wall sit
30 wall balls
15 pull-ups
AMRAP cal ski
Rest 2 mins x 4
Wednesday:
Wednesday is all about the barbell in both the skill and a fast-paced
Squat clean and run workout.
Strength:
A) Every 2 mins x 8 - 2 power clean + 2 push press
Rest 2 mins
B) Every 90 sec x 3 6 BB good mornings @30x1
Conditioning:
For Time:
15-12- 9 Squat Cleans
After each set, a park run
Thursday:
Thursday, we have some strict pull-up work followed by a long endurance workout on the rower.
Strength:
A: In a 2-minute window, establish a MAX unbroken set of strict pull-ups/chest 2 bar/bar muscle-ups
+
B: EMOM 8 @ 33% of A
Conditioning:
30 mins Max Cal Row:
0-10 mins every 2:30 mins 6 burpees
11-20 mins every 2:30 mins 6 burpee box jump
21-30 mins every 2:30 mins 6 burpee box jump over
Friday:
FUF, we are finishing off with some single-leg and core work, and then 6 rounds of
Strength:
A) EMOM x 6 - 20 sec strict TTB/SLR
rest 2 min
B) Every 2 mins x 4 - 12 alt front rack KB reverse lunge
Conditioning:
6 Rounds For Time:
12 TTB
40/30 Cal Ass Bike and C2 bike (Alternating)
20 Russian KB Swing
Mental toughness in athletes is a hot topic and we always hear of athletes who are “mentally tough” thriving over their competition. It has been at the forefront of many studies and research papers.
It can be a way for athletes to understand their own capacity, strengths, weaknesses. It also crosses over into the world of business and work, helping managers, leaders and individuals understand the problems people and organizations face when faced with change and more importantly how they deal with it.
So what is Mental toughness and do you have it?
In their book “Developing Mental toughness” Doug Strycharczyk and Peter Clough claim there are 4 pillars to MT that you should be aware of.
CHALLENGE: Do you see challenge as an opportunity?
CONFIDENCE: Do you have high levels of self-belief?
COMMITMENT – Are you able to stick at tasks without slipping or wandering.
CONTROL: Do you believe that you can control your own destiny?
Research shows that some people are genetically ‘tougher’ than others and that is just hardwired into us. But the good news is that if you are NOT mentally tough you are not necessarily mentally weak! We can say you are mentally sensitive.
Mentally tough deal with pressure by not letting it get to them whereas the sensitive will feel uncomfortable in times of pressure or challenge.
Think about how you react on a start line of a race. How do you let the pressure of racing or hard training sessions get to you? Can you keep focus, not moan, push through a pain barrier, not give up when it gets tough, remain relaxed…
Ultimately, we are looking for our ‘ideal performance state’ and there are a few ways we can work towards that.
IMPROVE SELF AWARENESS: know your strengths, identify your weaknesses. Action plan for difficult situations in competition and practice that plan.
BECOME RESILIENT: Develop a refocusing routine to use to bounce back quickly from mistakes. If… then… Your goal is to achieve the same winning mindset in every situation.
INCREASE CONFIDENCE: Have your mind full of past successes and remember these tough situations in training
TOUGH THINKING: Master your self-talk and chose what thoughts you use. Recognise negative thinking and reframe it to positive.
PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE: Identify what skills (technical, physical and mental) you need to show up at your best when you really need it. Write them down, stick them somewhere prominent.
Just like training there are a lot of moving parts to developing mental toughness and just like building your aerobic base it will not happen overnight. It’s a process that if you put time and effort into, you will reap the rewards.
Monday Ride
A ride dedicated to group riding skills and some fitness. Coach Rob Foster leads this ride, if you'd like to join email Rob Foster
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: The Loop Cafe, Bike DXB
Track Tuesday
Our weekly on track speed session! For any level of runner looking to build their run speed, threshold and Vo2max fitness and run with the best running community in Dubai.
Time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Friday - Coffee Run
Our weekly tempo run. Sessions are built on an RPE scale and accessible to all levels of runner. We start together, run hard then finish together and chat about it over a coffee and breakfast.
Brief time: 05:54 am
Start time: 05:59 am
Start Location: Common Grounds
Saturday - Long Ride
Our weekly endurance ride.
Please email Rob Foster for more details.
Time: 05:59 am
Location: Bottom of the Stick, Al Qudra.
Monday
Time: 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Tempo
This week will be dialling into that Tempo effort (7/10 RPE) for 5 mins blocks. You will take a 2 min recovery after each block and repeat the sequence 5x.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Session: Track Tuesday
This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. This week we will be running 300m repeats at 3km pace, each with a very easy float between.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Intervals
Today we have intervals in the morning and evening. We will be running 100m effort through the park behind InnerFight, you will then have 300m easy/recovery before repeating the sequence.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Common Grounds
Session: The Coffee Run
This week we will be working on a negative split run. After 20 mins of easy running you will go into 1 min on, 1 min off intervals for 30 mins. Post session coffees at Common Grounds from 7am.
Monday:
Starting the week with some pressing tempo push-up work, followed by some bench press and death march, and then a strongman-style workout for an epic start to the week!
Strength:
A) EMOM x 8 - 3 to 5 tempo push-ups tempo @31x1
B) Every 90 sec x 10 alt between - 5 Barbell bench press @20x1 (building) & 16 alt DB death march
Conditioning:
For Time:
10-1 Sandbag Over Shoulder
1-10 Dumbbell STOH
Tuesday:
Tuesday, we have some sled work in the strength, and then some Interval work that will challenge your squat and pull endurance.
Strength:
A) 6 mins build to max triple broad jump
Rest 2 mins
B) Every 2 mins x 5 2 length sled push
Conditioning:
4 min window
30 sec wall sit
30 wall balls
15 pull-ups
AMRAP cal ski
Rest 2 mins x 4
Wednesday:
Wednesday is all about the barbell in both the skill and a fast-paced
Squat clean and run workout.
Strength:
A) Every 2 mins x 8 - 2 power clean + 2 push press
Rest 2 mins
B) Every 90 sec x 3 6 BB good mornings @30x1
Conditioning:
For Time:
15-12- 9 Squat Cleans
After each set, a park run
Thursday:
Thursday, we have some strict pull-up work followed by a long endurance workout on the rower.
Strength:
A: In a 2-minute window, establish a MAX unbroken set of strict pull-ups/chest 2 bar/bar muscle-ups
+
B: EMOM 8 @ 33% of A
Conditioning:
30 mins Max Cal Row:
0-10 mins every 2:30 mins 6 burpees
11-20 mins every 2:30 mins 6 burpee box jump
21-30 mins every 2:30 mins 6 burpee box jump over
Friday:
FUF, we are finishing off with some single-leg and core work, and then 6 rounds of
Strength:
A) EMOM x 6 - 20 sec strict TTB/SLR
rest 2 min
B) Every 2 mins x 4 - 12 alt front rack KB reverse lunge
Conditioning:
6 Rounds For Time:
12 TTB
40/30 Cal Ass Bike and C2 bike (Alternating)
20 Russian KB Swing
ENGINE
A sustained 50-minute aerobic workout designed to build your engine and endurance. Expect continuous movement across the bike, rower, ski erg, and running, all at a manageable, steady pace.
GYMNASTICS
This week is all about the bar! On Tuesday, we’ll continue working on pulling strength, followed by kipping and butterfly progressions. On Thursday, Bar Muscle Ups will make an appearance. Get ready for low bar drills, strength work and BMU progressions galore.
HYROX
A high-intensity session focused on building leg strength and muscular endurance. We will finish each movement with short runs to build resilience under fatigue.
MOBILITY
Back to the flows, yes, back in popular demand, I’m running it back. Full body stretching ended with stability/activation of course.
PURE STRENGTH
This week in Pure Strength, we kick off Monday with a heavy set of RDLS, followed by some Front squat volume, and then some frontal plane strength work. On Wednesday, we have some overcoming isometrics to kick our session off, followed by some cluster sets on the bench press, and then some push-pull accessory work.
WEIGHTLIFTING
Weightlifting this week is snatch; we are breaking down the movement. Starting with the 3-position snatch. Drilling the timings under the barbell. Followed by snatch pulls and a complex of behind-the-neck push press into OHS.
Mental toughness in athletes is a hot topic and we always hear of athletes who are “mentally tough” thriving over their competition. It has been at the forefront of many studies and research papers.
It can be a way for athletes to understand their own capacity, strengths, weaknesses. It also crosses over into the world of business and work, helping managers, leaders and individuals understand the problems people and organizations face when faced with change and more importantly how they deal with it.
So what is Mental toughness and do you have it?
In their book “Developing Mental toughness” Doug Strycharczyk and Peter Clough claim there are 4 pillars to MT that you should be aware of.
CHALLENGE: Do you see challenge as an opportunity?
CONFIDENCE: Do you have high levels of self-belief?
COMMITMENT – Are you able to stick at tasks without slipping or wandering.
CONTROL: Do you believe that you can control your own destiny?
Research shows that some people are genetically ‘tougher’ than others and that is just hardwired into us. But the good news is that if you are NOT mentally tough you are not necessarily mentally weak! We can say you are mentally sensitive.
Mentally tough deal with pressure by not letting it get to them whereas the sensitive will feel uncomfortable in times of pressure or challenge.
Think about how you react on a start line of a race. How do you let the pressure of racing or hard training sessions get to you? Can you keep focus, not moan, push through a pain barrier, not give up when it gets tough, remain relaxed…
Ultimately, we are looking for our ‘ideal performance state’ and there are a few ways we can work towards that.
IMPROVE SELF AWARENESS: know your strengths, identify your weaknesses. Action plan for difficult situations in competition and practice that plan.
BECOME RESILIENT: Develop a refocusing routine to use to bounce back quickly from mistakes. If… then… Your goal is to achieve the same winning mindset in every situation.
INCREASE CONFIDENCE: Have your mind full of past successes and remember these tough situations in training
TOUGH THINKING: Master your self-talk and chose what thoughts you use. Recognise negative thinking and reframe it to positive.
PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE: Identify what skills (technical, physical and mental) you need to show up at your best when you really need it. Write them down, stick them somewhere prominent.
Just like training there are a lot of moving parts to developing mental toughness and just like building your aerobic base it will not happen overnight. It’s a process that if you put time and effort into, you will reap the rewards.
Monday
Time: 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Tempo
This week will be dialling into that Tempo effort (7/10 RPE) for 5 mins blocks. You will take a 2 min recovery after each block and repeat the sequence 5x.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Session: Track Tuesday
This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. This week we will be running 300m repeats at 3km pace, each with a very easy float between.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: LRC Intervals
Today we have intervals in the morning and evening. We will be running 100m effort through the park behind InnerFight, you will then have 300m easy/recovery before repeating the sequence.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Common Grounds
Session: The Coffee Run
This week we will be working on a negative split run. After 20 mins of easy running you will go into 1 min on, 1 min off intervals for 30 mins. Post session coffees at Common Grounds from 7am.
Monday:
Starting the week with some pressing tempo push-up work, followed by some bench press and death march, and then a strongman-style workout for an epic start to the week!
Strength:
A) EMOM x 8 - 3 to 5 tempo push-ups tempo @31x1
B) Every 90 sec x 10 alt between - 5 Barbell bench press @20x1 (building) & 16 alt DB death march
Conditioning:
For Time:
10-1 Sandbag Over Shoulder
1-10 Dumbbell STOH
Tuesday:
Tuesday, we have some sled work in the strength, and then some Interval work that will challenge your squat and pull endurance.
Strength:
A) 6 mins build to max triple broad jump
Rest 2 mins
B) Every 2 mins x 5 2 length sled push
Conditioning:
4 min window
30 sec wall sit
30 wall balls
15 pull-ups
AMRAP cal ski
Rest 2 mins x 4
Wednesday:
Wednesday is all about the barbell in both the skill and a fast-paced
Squat clean and run workout.
Strength:
A) Every 2 mins x 8 - 2 power clean + 2 push press
Rest 2 mins
B) Every 90 sec x 3 6 BB good mornings @30x1
Conditioning:
For Time:
15-12- 9 Squat Cleans
After each set, a park run
Thursday:
Thursday, we have some strict pull-up work followed by a long endurance workout on the rower.
Strength:
A: In a 2-minute window, establish a MAX unbroken set of strict pull-ups/chest 2 bar/bar muscle-ups
+
B: EMOM 8 @ 33% of A
Conditioning:
30 mins Max Cal Row:
0-10 mins every 2:30 mins 6 burpees
11-20 mins every 2:30 mins 6 burpee box jump
21-30 mins every 2:30 mins 6 burpee box jump over
Friday:
FUF, we are finishing off with some single-leg and core work, and then 6 rounds of
Strength:
A) EMOM x 6 - 20 sec strict TTB/SLR
rest 2 min
B) Every 2 mins x 4 - 12 alt front rack KB reverse lunge
Conditioning:
6 Rounds For Time:
12 TTB
40/30 Cal Ass Bike and C2 bike (Alternating)
20 Russian KB Swing
ENGINE
A sustained 50-minute aerobic workout designed to build your engine and endurance. Expect continuous movement across the bike, rower, ski erg, and running, all at a manageable, steady pace.
GYMNASTICS
This week is all about the bar! On Tuesday, we’ll continue working on pulling strength, followed by kipping and butterfly progressions. On Thursday, Bar Muscle Ups will make an appearance. Get ready for low bar drills, strength work and BMU progressions galore.
HYROX
A high-intensity session focused on building leg strength and muscular endurance. We will finish each movement with short runs to build resilience under fatigue.
MOBILITY
Back to the flows, yes, back in popular demand, I’m running it back. Full body stretching ended with stability/activation of course.
PURE STRENGTH
This week in Pure Strength, we kick off Monday with a heavy set of RDLS, followed by some Front squat volume, and then some frontal plane strength work. On Wednesday, we have some overcoming isometrics to kick our session off, followed by some cluster sets on the bench press, and then some push-pull accessory work.
WEIGHTLIFTING
Weightlifting this week is snatch; we are breaking down the movement. Starting with the 3-position snatch. Drilling the timings under the barbell. Followed by snatch pulls and a complex of behind-the-neck push press into OHS.
Monday Ride
A ride dedicated to group riding skills and some fitness. Coach Rob Foster leads this ride, if you'd like to join email Rob Foster
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: The Loop Cafe, Bike DXB
Track Tuesday
Our weekly on track speed session! For any level of runner looking to build their run speed, threshold and Vo2max fitness and run with the best running community in Dubai.
Time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Friday - Coffee Run
Our weekly tempo run. Sessions are built on an RPE scale and accessible to all levels of runner. We start together, run hard then finish together and chat about it over a coffee and breakfast.
Brief time: 05:54 am
Start time: 05:59 am
Start Location: Common Grounds
Saturday - Long Ride
Our weekly endurance ride.
Please email Rob Foster for more details.
Time: 05:59 am
Location: Bottom of the Stick, Al Qudra.
Mental toughness in athletes is a hot topic and we always hear of athletes who are “mentally tough” thriving over their competition. It has been at the forefront of many studies and research papers.
It can be a way for athletes to understand their own capacity, strengths, weaknesses. It also crosses over into the world of business and work, helping managers, leaders and individuals understand the problems people and organizations face when faced with change and more importantly how they deal with it.
So what is Mental toughness and do you have it?
In their book “Developing Mental toughness” Doug Strycharczyk and Peter Clough claim there are 4 pillars to MT that you should be aware of.
CHALLENGE: Do you see challenge as an opportunity?
CONFIDENCE: Do you have high levels of self-belief?
COMMITMENT – Are you able to stick at tasks without slipping or wandering.
CONTROL: Do you believe that you can control your own destiny?
Research shows that some people are genetically ‘tougher’ than others and that is just hardwired into us. But the good news is that if you are NOT mentally tough you are not necessarily mentally weak! We can say you are mentally sensitive.
Mentally tough deal with pressure by not letting it get to them whereas the sensitive will feel uncomfortable in times of pressure or challenge.
Think about how you react on a start line of a race. How do you let the pressure of racing or hard training sessions get to you? Can you keep focus, not moan, push through a pain barrier, not give up when it gets tough, remain relaxed…
Ultimately, we are looking for our ‘ideal performance state’ and there are a few ways we can work towards that.
IMPROVE SELF AWARENESS: know your strengths, identify your weaknesses. Action plan for difficult situations in competition and practice that plan.
BECOME RESILIENT: Develop a refocusing routine to use to bounce back quickly from mistakes. If… then… Your goal is to achieve the same winning mindset in every situation.
INCREASE CONFIDENCE: Have your mind full of past successes and remember these tough situations in training
TOUGH THINKING: Master your self-talk and chose what thoughts you use. Recognise negative thinking and reframe it to positive.
PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE: Identify what skills (technical, physical and mental) you need to show up at your best when you really need it. Write them down, stick them somewhere prominent.
Just like training there are a lot of moving parts to developing mental toughness and just like building your aerobic base it will not happen overnight. It’s a process that if you put time and effort into, you will reap the rewards.
Mental toughness in athletes is a hot topic and we always hear of athletes who are “mentally tough” thriving over their competition. It has been at the forefront of many studies and research papers.
It can be a way for athletes to understand their own capacity, strengths, weaknesses. It also crosses over into the world of business and work, helping managers, leaders and individuals understand the problems people and organizations face when faced with change and more importantly how they deal with it.
So what is Mental toughness and do you have it?
In their book “Developing Mental toughness” Doug Strycharczyk and Peter Clough claim there are 4 pillars to MT that you should be aware of.
CHALLENGE: Do you see challenge as an opportunity?
CONFIDENCE: Do you have high levels of self-belief?
COMMITMENT – Are you able to stick at tasks without slipping or wandering.
CONTROL: Do you believe that you can control your own destiny?
Research shows that some people are genetically ‘tougher’ than others and that is just hardwired into us. But the good news is that if you are NOT mentally tough you are not necessarily mentally weak! We can say you are mentally sensitive.
Mentally tough deal with pressure by not letting it get to them whereas the sensitive will feel uncomfortable in times of pressure or challenge.
Think about how you react on a start line of a race. How do you let the pressure of racing or hard training sessions get to you? Can you keep focus, not moan, push through a pain barrier, not give up when it gets tough, remain relaxed…
Ultimately, we are looking for our ‘ideal performance state’ and there are a few ways we can work towards that.
IMPROVE SELF AWARENESS: know your strengths, identify your weaknesses. Action plan for difficult situations in competition and practice that plan.
BECOME RESILIENT: Develop a refocusing routine to use to bounce back quickly from mistakes. If… then… Your goal is to achieve the same winning mindset in every situation.
INCREASE CONFIDENCE: Have your mind full of past successes and remember these tough situations in training
TOUGH THINKING: Master your self-talk and chose what thoughts you use. Recognise negative thinking and reframe it to positive.
PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE: Identify what skills (technical, physical and mental) you need to show up at your best when you really need it. Write them down, stick them somewhere prominent.
Just like training there are a lot of moving parts to developing mental toughness and just like building your aerobic base it will not happen overnight. It’s a process that if you put time and effort into, you will reap the rewards.
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