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Chris McCormick

Are you tough or are you trained?

April 18, 2019/by Chris McCormick

Mental toughness might be the most cliché term used in sports today. There is no way to the top if you don’t have “it.” When a team loses, coaches most commonly point to mental toughness for where things fell short. While it is easy to point a finger at mental toughness, it is harder to actually understand what all these coaches are talking about. Let’s take a minute to unwrap this idea. If mental toughness is so crucial to success, why do so many coaches struggle to define it or share a common definition, yet time and time again know it when they see it?


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Tags: Featured, Mental Toughness, Sports Psychology, Strength and Conditioning
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Chris McCormick is the former Director of Strength and Conditioning for Olympic Sports at Florida Atlantic University.

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