Mental Toughness In Sports

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Many may go to say that it is very important to be physically prepared for competition. Athletes will go out and do various strenuous workouts, push their bodies to the limit, and work until they cannot work anymore. Being physically tough is key to being prepared for competition, but just physically tough is not just the only thing an athlete should be when preparing for competition. It is just as, if not, more important to be mentally tough as well. Athletes must be able to think on the fly throughout competition. Mental toughness includes isolating the task at hand, rebounding from failure, absorbing failure and carrying on, coping with pressure, and having the determination to persist when things are going wrong. From experience, there are many athletes who have all the physical abilities to do whatever in their respective sport, but do not have the mental toughness to be successful in competition. It is important for athletes to have more mental toughness than physical toughness in sport, and athletes who do so, are more successful.
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An example of this being a false claim is a high school athlete going to play on the college level. This athlete may be physically able to run, jump, and/or outperform everybody, as an incoming freshman, but does not hold the ability to be mentally tough. Some may claim that mental toughness is built off physical toughness. I want to present a certain stressor that affect the athlete physically and mentally, and that is injury. Injuries happen in sports, they are part of the game of course, and no matter how physically tough you are if you sustain a time loss injury, there is nothing that your physical toughness can do for you at all. This stressor can only be dealt with by being mentally tough to cope with this stressor that may potentially bother an

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