The fourth segment of my five-part series on mental toughness is one that is probably most relevant to you as it is one of the biggest reasons why so many people don’t want to train or do high intensity training. Pain tolerance. Of course the kind of pain I’m referring to is the good kind of pain and not the pain that is associated with muscle tears or joint pain. That is bad pain and
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This week’s blog post will continue on from last week’s blog on Fear Management, part 3 of 5 in the series Mental Toughness for which I did the training on for the White Collar Boxers. The next mental tool you can employ when you’re facing fear is to imagine the worst case scenario. This is effective because by imagining the worst case scenario, you have created a lower bound for yourself in which all possible
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“There is no illusion greater than fear.” -- Laozi So this week’s blog topic may not be the most relevant to you, but it was very much relevant to the white collar boxers that were fighting 2 weekends ago. Even though you may not have experienced a boxing match in your life, if you have any ounce of empathy in you, then you will know how scary it can be to fight in a
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We all have a general idea of what our maximum effort level looks like in our heads and we vaguely know how that should feel. We get used to that look and feel as being our 100% effort and continue working at that rate thinking it’s our best effort. However, it is quite possible that you have never reached your 100% effort level as I have written before on an earlier blog entry as there
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The Road from Being Good to Great In light of the upcoming Brawl on the Bund event this Saturday, which I have been a part of as their guest trainer, today’s blog will be part one of five in a series that talks about the topic that I trained the boxers on - mental toughness. Today’s post is specifically on how mental toughness plays a part in high intensity training. It’s unfortunate that this
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