Creating mentally strong athletes that can bring the right focus to training and perform under pressure is no easy task. While specialists can help in this area, every coach needs to understand that how they design training can also help develop the athlete mentally as well as physically. On this episode of the GAINcast we talk about sports psychology and how to integrate important concepts into daily training sessions. For more information on this topic, read the complete show notes at: http://www.hmmrmedia.com/2019/04/gaincast-episode-159-sports-psychology/

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• This month’s site theme is mental training. For more on the topic listen to the HMMR Podcast which covered mental skills and got inside the mind of elite athletes. We've also put together new articles on dealing with fear, mental toughness and mountaineering, mental toughness and strength training, real life lessons from Sergej Litvinov and Szymon Ziolkowski, and designing holistic exercises.
• This episode touched on some prior topics we've looked at on the GAINcast, including GAINcast 151 on goals, GAINcast 124 on making the champion's choice, GAINcast 130 on cognition in sport with Len Zaichkowsky and Daniel Peterson, and GAINcast 68 on the silofication of sport.
• Vern has also written about a number of these topics like mental toughness, failure, Navy Seal training and other nonsense, >The Little Engine That Could, and preparing the path.