History of Mental Toughness

History of Mental Toughness

Feb 11, 2017

For more than a century, scientists have studied the psychology behind sports and performance. The study of mental toughness, as an offshoot of that discipline, is a relative newcomer. Here’s how it was developed and who are the luminaries in this short history...
Bouchard to Wimbledon Final

Bouchard to Wimbledon Final

Feb 1, 2017

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 style beating 7-6, 6-2 over Simona Halep.   In 2016, the Globe and Mail ran a story on Bouchard in which...
Something to think about…

Something to think about…

Feb 1, 2017

“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 they’re not there.  It doesn’t matter how much you focus on the beautiful...

The Best Way to Get to The Top

Feb 1, 2017

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 imagining it and not so easy when it’s crunch time.   The only way to get to the top...

The team that visualizes together, wins together…

Feb 1, 2017

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 visualization.  She said: “Just thought I’d share a picture with you that your mental toughness email...

Every second counts….

Feb 1, 2017

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 by taking a nap? I don’t get it’  or ‘This is what mental...

Your mind quits first, but keep going.

Feb 1, 2017

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.  There will always be pain when you’re pushing yourself to the next level.  It’s outside...

If at first you don’t succeed. . .

Feb 1, 2017

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 lot of young gymnasts. Gymnastics is a sport of inches, and mental toughness can really make or...

Dreams can come true…

Feb 1, 2017

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 started working with Maddie about 2 years ago now, and at that time she was extremely talented, yet she kept...