Mental Toughness Training

If you subscribed to this blog, you’re probably curious about how athletes perform mental toughness training. In this post, we’ll teach mental toughness tips that professional athletes practice and we’ll highlight the healthy benefits that it brings to your life.

The essence of mental toughness lies in motivation. Here are some simple tips that should be practiced daily.

1. When you have your mind on the “prize”, visualize your own success before succeeding. This technique helps keep your mind focused.
2. Meditation is a mental state where your mind is calm and at peace. It’s also a great way to clear your mind of distractions. Explaining how to meditate can be quite lengthy so we've included a video that briefly explains how to meditate.
3. Always focus on being positive and filter out the negative thoughts in your mind that tell you to quit. It’s much more difficult to be motivated with a negative frame of mind.
4. Coach yourself. When it’s time to push your limit, speak to yourself in the second person and say “Is that all you got?” and give yourself advice that you would like to be given from a well-known coach or your idol.

Please leave a comment to let the readers know if these techniques have helped you to become mentally tough.

Gambling after a professional athletes retirement

Gambling after a Professional Athlete’s Retirement

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Gambling is an addictive disorder experienced by athletes, college and professional. Athletes tend to gamble during or after their sports career.  Gambling is a “drug” many athletes tend to get into. Gambling can be from playing Blackjack, poker, to betting on professional athletic games. Why do they do it?

      

            Gambling occurs for many different reasons such as athletes are retired so it’s another hobby to keep them busy, they want to win money etc. For example, Charles Barkley is a retired professional basketball player, he was known for his compulsive gambling. In an ESPN interview, he revealed that he lost approximately $10 million through gambling. He also lost $2.5 million in a six-hour period while playing blackjack. Barkley has admitted he gambles for too much money and stated it’s a bad habit but will continue to do it. Despite suffering some big losses, in 2008 after a casino filed a civil complaint after failing to pay a $400,000 debt stemming from 2007. Barkley stated he will not gamble anymore and said, “Just because I can afford to lose money doesn’t mean I should do it.”

                  My tip is a professional athlete should not get into the “gambling scene”. Like Barkley said, just because you have money doesn’t mean you should lose it. Odds are you will and it can be an addiction after wanting to play again and again.  You can end up broke and have debt that can last years. If a millionaire can lose tons of money then so can a middle-income person. 

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Title: Espn 30 for 30 Broke

Espn also known as entertainment and sports programming network has been bringing us the greatest sports moments for years. They’re not called the world wide leader in sports for nothing, but recently they changed their scenery a little bit and took us down another path.

Recently ESPN started a series called ESPN 30 for 30 documentary which is basically a series that was dedicated to doing stories on specific athletes and their rise from where they came from to where they are now. 

The stories cover some interesting topics such as personal life, personal issues, and they things that as a fan you don’t see once the sporting event is over. The series has been a successful one, but ESPN did a completely different yet totally relevant story called ESPN 30 for 30 Broke. This documentary covered the issue of pro athletes going bankrupt after they retire from professional sports it had interviews with former pros who had gone broke such as Bernie Kosar, Andre Rison, and former NFL coach Herm Edwards who talked about his experiences seeing his former players spend their money recklessly. The fact that ESPN was able to cover the issues that cause players to become financially unstable, or even get former athletes to speak about their filing of bankruptcy on camera is pretty amazing. It’s not something anyone would be proud to talk about let alone a former million dollar making professional athlete. If your interested in seeing the documentary here is the link where you can watch for yourself.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSOAwNSv8EM

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