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🔷HOW TO BE MENTALLY TOUGH 3.0🔷

For this 3rd and final post on how to be mentally tough, these attributes are expected to be a mentally tough performer:

* Accepting that competition anxiety is inevitable and knowing that you can cope with it

* Not being adversely affected by others’ good and bad performances

* Regaining psychological control following unexpected, uncontrollable events (competition-specific)

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🔷HOW TO BE MENTALLY TOUGH 3.0🔷

For this 3rd and final post on how to be mentally tough, these attributes are required to be a mentally tough performer:

* Accepting that competition anxiety is inevitable and knowing that you can cope with it

* Not being adversely affected by others’ good and bad performances

* Regaining psychological control following unexpected, uncontrollable events 66 6 (competition-specific)
 
Comment 🔥 if you are finding this information useful and we’ll send you the all the mental toughness attributes and importance rakings!

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🔷HOW TO BE MENTALLY TOUGH 2.0🔷

For this 2nd post on how to be mentally tough, research shows that mental toughness is a result of how strong-mind athletes are capable of:

* Having an insatiable desire and internalized motives to succeed

* Thriving regardless of competition pressures

* Pushing back the boundaries of physical and emotional pain, while still maintaining technique and effort under distress (in training and competition)
 
Remember that you can develop your own plan to achieve this critical aspect of top-performance athletes!
 
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🔷HOW TO BE MENTALLY TOUGH🔷

Mental toughness can be defined as having the natural or developed psychological edge that enables you to: • 

- COPE better than your opponents with the many demands (competition, training, lifestyle) that sport places on a performer. • 

- Specifically, be more consistent and better than your opponents in remaining determined, focused, confident, and in control under pressure.

Based on Jones et al., 2002, mentally tough athletes show 12 different attributes. 
 
For this post, we’ll focus on:

- Believing in your own ability

- Bouncing back from performance set-backs

- Remaining fully focused on the task at hand

Inherent within the definition is the notion that athletes can possess a “natural” mental toughness that they bring with them to the sports environment. 
 
However, it is also possible to develop mental toughness so that sports psychologists and mental performance coaches can play an important role in this respect. 
 
You can develop your own plan to achieve this critical aspect of top-performance athletes!
 
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Self-care strategies have been shown to improve athletes' performance and overall well-being.

They can be defined as positive actions that promote wellness and effective coping with life and sport stressors

Here are different strategies that can be used to build a self-care plan:

- Exercise (non-sport related, e.g., yoga)
- Proper nutrition (following a plan that meets the sports energy-specific demands)
- Time in nature (keep your phone at home!)
- Develop supportive social relationships
- Stress management (e.g., breathing skills)

Specific to the individuals' needs and preferences, athletes will experience multiple benefits from applying these strategies during the season.

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Resilience can be defined as the capacity of the team/individual to sustain prolonged stress and maintain optimal performance levels.

Exposure to increased pressure is an option when looking to improve the resilient skills of teams and players.

In this study conducted by Kegelaers and colleagues (2018) with female basketball players, different strategies were used during 8 training sessions to increase the training pressure.

There are multiple ways in which coaches can manipulate the practice sessions to increase game pressure:

-Mental (e.g rewards and consequences)
-Physical (e.g. induced fatigue)
-Environment (e.g distractions)

The group exposed to the resilient training showed:

- Reduction in the team-level vulnerabilities
- Increased awareness, emerging leadership, stronger communication channels, and the development and ex*****on of collective plans

It is important to notice the role of formal and informal pre- and post-training reflections (e.g., post-exercise discussion), so the players can understand WHAT is required of them, WHY they are doing it, and HOW they can succeed!

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