Strong Minds, Strong Bodies: Elite Athletes Open Up on What It Takes to Deal with Doubts and Questions of Confidence
Every athlete working to compete at the next level experiences doubts and questions - do I have what it takes, am I wasting my time, is it all worth the trouble? Or, I want to be good, but I really just don't know how good I can be.
Dealing with these questions is particularly hard for collegiate student-athletes - so much is involved in the transition to a higher level of play that the doubts and questions can start to get really loud and really hard to respond to.
Strong Minds Strong Bodies will bring you conversations with athletes who have (very) successfully responded to those questions. That they responded successfully doesn't mean that responding was an easy, feel-good experience. They had to find ways to deal with the doubt - to embrace the discomfort of not knowing whether their investments were going to pay off in the way that they'd worked for. What I hope you'll see here are some ideas from excellent athletes from how they identified and created the resources they needed to respond to the doubts and questions - so that they could perform in a way that really let them see just how good they could be.
But Chase's vision isn't about PRs - it's about consistency. His number one question for himself? "Is that performance repeatable?" For Chase, it's consistency that allows for "honest and real evaluation" of training, performances, and goals - and allows athletes to accept that progress is never linear and to move forward free of expectations.
Look for Chase at the 2016 Olympic Trials, and contact him at chaselongthrows@gmail.com