'Be Mentally Tough' Blog
How to Help Your Young Gymnast Overcome Fear and Anxiety
Is your young gymnast experiencing fear of a skill in the gym? Learn how to help your child overcome fear as a gymnast. Click here for more.
History of Mental Toughness
For more than a century, scientists have studied the psychology behind sports and performance. The study of mental toughness, as an offshoot of that...
Bouchard to Wimbledon Final
Eugenie Bouchard of Canada becomes the first woman to ever make a grand slam tennis final, in only her second full season on the WTA tour, and she did it in...
Something to think about…
"When weeds come up in your garden, it does no good to say, 'There are no weeds, there are no weeds, there are no weeds . . .' It doesn't help to pretend...
The Best Way to Get to The Top
There's not much for me to say here. The arm chair athlete might have the best strategies and ideas to win, however it's easy to know what to do when you're...
The team that visualizes together, wins together…
After sending out last week's mental toughness tip, one of my former mental toughness coaching athletes sent me an email about how her team used...
Every second counts….
I'm guessing that's the last picture you expected to see after reading the subject of this Mental Toughness Tip. I know I'd be like 'What? I can cut seconds...
Your mind quits first, but keep going.
It is your mind that determines what's possible. You're so much more powerful, more capable, and more resilient than you think. Learn to trust your body....
If at first you don’t succeed. . .
You often don't know how the competition is going to end I just got off the phone with one of my rockstar athletes. If you don't already know, I work with a...
Dreams can come true…
Say hello to my athlete Maddie, in her first World race competing for Canada at the Junior World Snowboarding Championships in Italy just over one week ago. I...
Goals don’t work, unless . . .
Yes, you read me correctly: focusing on your goals doesn't work, in fact goals don't work unless you don't focus on them. Let me explain. To get the most out...
Something to think about
I'm always amazed at the inspiration that comes from children's movies. One of my favourites is Kung Fu Panda. In the movie, a food loving, out of shape panda...