Mental and physical resilience: what is most important?

Mental resilience and physical resilience: both are undoubtedly important if we want to get high -level performances.

Consequently, every athlete, regardless of the sporting discipline and practiced, should engage both in mental training and in physical training .

From coach and ultra-reyner I am convinced that mental resilience is more important , because it is thanks to our mind that we are able to focus our attention on what is really important, especially in stressful situations. That's why it is thanks to our mind that we are able to apply our physical skills.

Highly challenging situations, therefore of greater stress, require high physical skills that can only be manifested if the athlete has an adequate level of mental resilience.

A very good and resistant footballer will not be able to put all his skill in the field in an important final if he has not had adequate mental strength that will allow him to manage pressure and stress.

Mental resilience: is it really so important?

When we train our body, we train our muscle tissue. Not only that: we develop and train neural networks in our brain. In other words, when we make physical training, we create neural networks that send signals to the muscles in relation to how to activate according to increasingly effective specific methods.

Mental resilience and quality of training

The way we perform our physical training is of fundamental importance. On this it depends on how much the training will be productive. The greater the number of productive training, the better the results we will be able to obtain.

The main way that allows us to increase the quality of our training is with attention. Thanks to our ability to pay close attention during the training process we can put into practice the so -called intentional practice . The training mode, that is, in which mental presence allows the athlete to obtain high -level improvement performance.

Eliminates distractions

Training by mentally presenting means eliminating distractions during training as much as possible . Most athletes do not commit themselves to this, on the contrary, they do everything to distract themselves from the stress caused by the training performance.

Enter any gym and you will see a lot of people on the treadmill or on the exercise bike that train by listening to music or looking at the smartphone. Of course, they are certainly involving their body, but attention is not aimed at measuring the quality of their commitment. They are in fact distracted by music or social networks.

Without the utmost attention, we cannot be aware of our posture, our breathing, of all the proprioceptive aspects related to the perception of our body in space. Without the utmost attention, therefore, it is very difficult to monitor and be aware of all those aspects that allow us to improve.

Mental resilience: some advice to improve it

• Enter gradually in your workouts some sessions without music (maybe you could listen to music only in the exhaust sessions that do not require great commitment) in order to keep your attention on your body
• Develops a personal ritual that helps you find concentration
• Creates anchors that allow you to enter a functional mood in which your focus ability is emphasized
• Dedicated some time to improving breathing thanks to these simple exercises

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