Summer Miles Week #8

 

OVERCOME!! PUSH THROUGH!! BELIEVE IN THE WORK! TRUST THE WORK! ENDURE!!!!

Whenever you’re training, you need to have the mental ability to remain focused and in control regardless of the circumstances. But can we train our brains to focus and overcome our deficiencies. 

What is mental toughness?

Mental toughness or strength is the ability to regulate your emotions, manage your thoughts and, despite the hard circumstances, behave in a positive manner. It’s about finding the inner strength and courage to live according to your values and creating your own definition of success.

 Mental toughness involves more than just willpower, requiring hard work and commitment. There are steps you can take and exercises to help you develop skills that increase your mental strength. Here are a few mental hacks for achieving a strong physical and mental performance.

Begin your workout with the right mindset.

Set your mind into goal-mode and remember that you exercise to feel good and not to torture yourself. If you start your workout routine with a negative attitude towards exercising, you will not be able to finish your workout. Remind yourself that exercise can be fun and awesome.

 Take a deep breath

It will help calm the mind and relax the body. Whenever you take shallow breaths, you increase muscle tension and decrease your performance.

 Focus on the steps to victory and not victory itself

When you’re in a competition, trust your training and stop thinking about what other are doing or how ahead of you they are. The competitors don’t exist. The scoreboard doesn’t exist. It’s only you and the things you need to get done. Don’t think about losing, but focus on staying on target.

 Change your weakness into strength

This means you have to do movements you’re not good at or you don’t really like. This way, your weakness can turn into your strength. It takes a lot of perseverance and got giving up, but you can do it.

Don’t fear failure

 There is that fear that your body won’t be able to adapt to running faster. You can push beyond your comfort zone. Don’t be scared to try new things. You’ll probably fail the first time, but you’ll never know if you don’t try. And even if you do, you have to start somewhere, so go for it.

 The limitations seem to get smaller and smaller when you have a perspective. As you slowly build up your resistance, you’ll begin to see an increase in your ability to stay focused throughout the course of training. Training is as much about developing your mental toughness as it is developing a well-rounded physique.

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