Get Tough

I’m so excited to tell you about Erika. She is a young gymnast who has been working with Mental Toughness Inc. for eight months now. We have focused on coping with the stresses of high performance (lots of elements of risk) routines, and maintaining confidence as the competition-stakes get higher.

If you are looking for a way to overcome fear that is holding you back from a maxed outperformance, then there are a lot of resources out there that can help. Here are a few good articles. You will see some commonalties between them.

I spent two years researching and writing my Master’s thesis on: What has athletes perform or underperform at the biggest competition in the world, the Olympics? The research was unanimous: Those who performed at the Olympics were those who placed a priority on training their mind. That’s why we designed The Mental Toughness Training Program for Champion Athletes.

Few athletes or teams have accomplished this in their career. The Humber College Hawks Volleyball Team did just that as they completed their regular season by capturing the Ontario (Canada) provincial gold medal. Find in this column out how they managed to accomplish that success using – you guessed it – mental toughness training.