Mental Toughness
Mental toughness in athletes is a hot topic and we always hear of athletes who are “mentally tough” thriving over their competition. It has been at the forefront of many studies and research papers.
It can be a way for athletes to understand their own capacity, strengths, weaknesses. It also crosses over into the world of business and work, helping managers, leaders and individuals understand the problems people and organizations face when faced with change and more importantly how they deal with it.
So what is Mental toughness and do you have it?
In their book “Developing Mental toughness” Doug Strycharczyk and Peter Clough claim there are 4 pillars to MT that you should be aware of.
CHALLENGE: Do you see challenge as an opportunity?
CONFIDENCE: Do you have high levels of self-belief?
COMMITMENT – Are you able to stick at tasks without slipping or wandering.
CONTROL: Do you believe that you can control your own destiny?
Research shows that some people are genetically ‘tougher’ than others and that is just hardwired into us. But the good news is that if you are NOT mentally tough you are not necessarily mentally weak! We can say you are mentally sensitive.
Mentally tough deal with pressure by not letting it get to them whereas the sensitive will feel uncomfortable in times of pressure or challenge.
Think about how you react on a start line of a race. How do you let the pressure of racing or hard training sessions get to you? Can you keep focus, not moan, push through a pain barrier, not give up when it gets tough, remain relaxed…
Ultimately, we are looking for our ‘ideal performance state’ and there are a few ways we can work towards that.
IMPROVE SELF AWARENESS: know your strengths, identify your weaknesses. Action plan for difficult situations in competition and practice that plan.
BECOME RESILIENT: Develop a refocusing routine to use to bounce back quickly from mistakes. If… then… Your goal is to achieve the same winning mindset in every situation.
INCREASE CONFIDENCE: Have your mind full of past successes and remember these tough situations in training
TOUGH THINKING: Master your self-talk and chose what thoughts you use. Recognise negative thinking and reframe it to positive.
PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE: Identify what skills (technical, physical and mental) you need to show up at your best when you really need it. Write them down, stick them somewhere prominent.
Just like training there are a lot of moving parts to developing mental toughness and just like building your aerobic base it will not happen overnight. It’s a process that if you put time and effort into, you will reap the rewards.
ENGINE
Working on holding our MIKKOS score calories for longer blocks of time.
GYMNASTICS
This week, we will focus on rope climbing, doubleunders, and handstand push-ups in gymnastics. We will focus on the skill elements to help you with these movements! Whether you have these movements down or not, this class will help you improve in all these movements so you're ready to attack classes!
HYROX
We start to put together the pieces and do a mini HYROX
MOBILITY
We will go over full-body flow routines focusing on flexibility for full-body alignment.
PURE STRENGTH
In Pure Strength, we start the week with some percentage work on the close grip bench press, followed by heavy rows and a shoulder pump to finish. Wednesday, we worked up to a heavy single on the deadlift, with some tough drop sets followed by some heavy single leg work.
WEIGHTLIFTING
Snatch Focus this week, and we get into over-head squats before working into some Snatch High Pulls and Hang Snatch and then finish with some heavy Snatch singles!
Track Tuesday
Week two of our over/unders block, this week we move to 1km efforts.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1 hour
Wednesday Ride
Wednesday ride* 5.59am BOTS. << use links/details from a few months back
4 X 8min at your best effort, what have you got?
Start time: 05:59am
Session Length: 1 hour
Location: BOTS - https://goo.gl/maps/6AwtJXW8nA45Cy9H8
The Coffee Run
Our classic builders set this week, 5min builds based on effort! A great tempo run.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session length: 1 hour
Location: Common Grounds, Jumeirah Beach Track
Saturday Ride
Back to a long ride today, 105km in the group with some structured intervals to follow.
Start time: 05:59am
Session Length: 1 hour
Location: BOTS - https://goo.gl/maps/6AwtJXW8nA45Cy9H8
Sunday long run
Team IFE on Tour are 3 weeks out from the marathon in Munich, so they need to run long. Why not come along and support with some miles to? Message sh@innerfight.com to find out more.
Start time: 05:29am
Session Length: 1 hour
Location: From InnerFight
Monday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Tempo
Today we will hold tempo for 2 long blocks and one shorter block. Keep asking yourself if you are running a 7/10 effort during this session.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Sports City
Session: Track Tuesday
This week our over/unders have increased from 800m to 1000m. Paces are the same as last week. This is your chance to run fast with the wider InnerFight Endurance Community and Coaches.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Intervals
We will be running our intervals around the Olivia apartments this week for 1 loop and then in the park for a shorter loop. Try and pick up the pace on the shorter park loops.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Kite Beach
Session: The Coffee Run
This week our efforts will build from 4/10 to 7/10 over 3 blocks of builders. You therefore have 3 attempts to hit that 7/10 feeling. We recommend that you do not start off too fast on this one.
Sunday
Time: 5:29am
Location: InnerFight
Session: Long Run
We will be running from InnerFight this Sunday. There are various options from 15km to 35km depending on which races you have coming up. If you would rather run for time, that is also fine! Routes will be shared in WhatsApp and on TrainingPeaks.
We will kick the week off on Monday with heavy single-leg work and move on to a fast interval workout. Tuesday is about the sandbags with a tough set of EMOMs followed by a partner workout. Wednesday, we have more focus on our strict pull-ups and then a gymnastics and running-based workout. Thursday, we will hit some technical work on a clean complex and follow it up with some heavy clean singles, followed by a tough and fast-paced workout with rowing cleans and wall balls. Friday, we finish the week with some heavy Jerks in the skill and then a gruelling chipper.
Monday:
Strength:
Walking Dumbell Lunges
Conditioning:
In a 2 min window
25 KB Sumo deadlift (2x24/16)
Amrap DU
rest 2 mins
In a 2 min window
16 Weighted Box Step Ups 1 x KB 24/16
AMRAP Cals Bike
rest 2 mins
x3
Tuesday:
Strength:
Building Weight Sandbag To Shoulder
Conditioning:
In Pairs
100 sandbags to shoulder (80/50)
Every 4 mins
1 car park lap farmers carry 2 x 32/24
Wednesday:
Strength:
A) Strict Pull Ups
B) KB Push Press + Pull Ups + Side Plank
Conditioning:
16 min amrap
Pool Run
10 burpee pull-ups
3 wall walks
Thursday:
Strength:
A) Clean Pull + Hang Squat Clean + Front Squat
B) Squat Clean
Conditioning:
For time:
500/400m row
30 squat clean (60/40)
50 WallBalls
Friday:
Strength:
A) Push Jerk
Conditioning:
It's an awesome triplet to end the week! Therapyyyyy!
Mental toughness in athletes is a hot topic and we always hear of athletes who are “mentally tough” thriving over their competition. It has been at the forefront of many studies and research papers.
It can be a way for athletes to understand their own capacity, strengths, weaknesses. It also crosses over into the world of business and work, helping managers, leaders and individuals understand the problems people and organizations face when faced with change and more importantly how they deal with it.
So what is Mental toughness and do you have it?
In their book “Developing Mental toughness” Doug Strycharczyk and Peter Clough claim there are 4 pillars to MT that you should be aware of.
CHALLENGE: Do you see challenge as an opportunity?
CONFIDENCE: Do you have high levels of self-belief?
COMMITMENT – Are you able to stick at tasks without slipping or wandering.
CONTROL: Do you believe that you can control your own destiny?
Research shows that some people are genetically ‘tougher’ than others and that is just hardwired into us. But the good news is that if you are NOT mentally tough you are not necessarily mentally weak! We can say you are mentally sensitive.
Mentally tough deal with pressure by not letting it get to them whereas the sensitive will feel uncomfortable in times of pressure or challenge.
Think about how you react on a start line of a race. How do you let the pressure of racing or hard training sessions get to you? Can you keep focus, not moan, push through a pain barrier, not give up when it gets tough, remain relaxed…
Ultimately, we are looking for our ‘ideal performance state’ and there are a few ways we can work towards that.
IMPROVE SELF AWARENESS: know your strengths, identify your weaknesses. Action plan for difficult situations in competition and practice that plan.
BECOME RESILIENT: Develop a refocusing routine to use to bounce back quickly from mistakes. If… then… Your goal is to achieve the same winning mindset in every situation.
INCREASE CONFIDENCE: Have your mind full of past successes and remember these tough situations in training
TOUGH THINKING: Master your self-talk and chose what thoughts you use. Recognise negative thinking and reframe it to positive.
PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE: Identify what skills (technical, physical and mental) you need to show up at your best when you really need it. Write them down, stick them somewhere prominent.
Just like training there are a lot of moving parts to developing mental toughness and just like building your aerobic base it will not happen overnight. It’s a process that if you put time and effort into, you will reap the rewards.
Track Tuesday
Week two of our over/unders block, this week we move to 1km efforts.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1 hour
Wednesday Ride
Wednesday ride* 5.59am BOTS. << use links/details from a few months back
4 X 8min at your best effort, what have you got?
Start time: 05:59am
Session Length: 1 hour
Location: BOTS - https://goo.gl/maps/6AwtJXW8nA45Cy9H8
The Coffee Run
Our classic builders set this week, 5min builds based on effort! A great tempo run.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session length: 1 hour
Location: Common Grounds, Jumeirah Beach Track
Saturday Ride
Back to a long ride today, 105km in the group with some structured intervals to follow.
Start time: 05:59am
Session Length: 1 hour
Location: BOTS - https://goo.gl/maps/6AwtJXW8nA45Cy9H8
Sunday long run
Team IFE on Tour are 3 weeks out from the marathon in Munich, so they need to run long. Why not come along and support with some miles to? Message sh@innerfight.com to find out more.
Start time: 05:29am
Session Length: 1 hour
Location: From InnerFight
Monday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Tempo
Today we will hold tempo for 2 long blocks and one shorter block. Keep asking yourself if you are running a 7/10 effort during this session.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Sports City
Session: Track Tuesday
This week our over/unders have increased from 800m to 1000m. Paces are the same as last week. This is your chance to run fast with the wider InnerFight Endurance Community and Coaches.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Intervals
We will be running our intervals around the Olivia apartments this week for 1 loop and then in the park for a shorter loop. Try and pick up the pace on the shorter park loops.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Kite Beach
Session: The Coffee Run
This week our efforts will build from 4/10 to 7/10 over 3 blocks of builders. You therefore have 3 attempts to hit that 7/10 feeling. We recommend that you do not start off too fast on this one.
Sunday
Time: 5:29am
Location: InnerFight
Session: Long Run
We will be running from InnerFight this Sunday. There are various options from 15km to 35km depending on which races you have coming up. If you would rather run for time, that is also fine! Routes will be shared in WhatsApp and on TrainingPeaks.
We will kick the week off on Monday with heavy single-leg work and move on to a fast interval workout. Tuesday is about the sandbags with a tough set of EMOMs followed by a partner workout. Wednesday, we have more focus on our strict pull-ups and then a gymnastics and running-based workout. Thursday, we will hit some technical work on a clean complex and follow it up with some heavy clean singles, followed by a tough and fast-paced workout with rowing cleans and wall balls. Friday, we finish the week with some heavy Jerks in the skill and then a gruelling chipper.
Monday:
Strength:
Walking Dumbell Lunges
Conditioning:
In a 2 min window
25 KB Sumo deadlift (2x24/16)
Amrap DU
rest 2 mins
In a 2 min window
16 Weighted Box Step Ups 1 x KB 24/16
AMRAP Cals Bike
rest 2 mins
x3
Tuesday:
Strength:
Building Weight Sandbag To Shoulder
Conditioning:
In Pairs
100 sandbags to shoulder (80/50)
Every 4 mins
1 car park lap farmers carry 2 x 32/24
Wednesday:
Strength:
A) Strict Pull Ups
B) KB Push Press + Pull Ups + Side Plank
Conditioning:
16 min amrap
Pool Run
10 burpee pull-ups
3 wall walks
Thursday:
Strength:
A) Clean Pull + Hang Squat Clean + Front Squat
B) Squat Clean
Conditioning:
For time:
500/400m row
30 squat clean (60/40)
50 WallBalls
Friday:
Strength:
A) Push Jerk
Conditioning:
It's an awesome triplet to end the week! Therapyyyyy!
ENGINE
Working on holding our MIKKOS score calories for longer blocks of time.
GYMNASTICS
This week, we will focus on rope climbing, doubleunders, and handstand push-ups in gymnastics. We will focus on the skill elements to help you with these movements! Whether you have these movements down or not, this class will help you improve in all these movements so you're ready to attack classes!
HYROX
We start to put together the pieces and do a mini HYROX
MOBILITY
We will go over full-body flow routines focusing on flexibility for full-body alignment.
PURE STRENGTH
In Pure Strength, we start the week with some percentage work on the close grip bench press, followed by heavy rows and a shoulder pump to finish. Wednesday, we worked up to a heavy single on the deadlift, with some tough drop sets followed by some heavy single leg work.
WEIGHTLIFTING
Snatch Focus this week, and we get into over-head squats before working into some Snatch High Pulls and Hang Snatch and then finish with some heavy Snatch singles!
Mental toughness in athletes is a hot topic and we always hear of athletes who are “mentally tough” thriving over their competition. It has been at the forefront of many studies and research papers.
It can be a way for athletes to understand their own capacity, strengths, weaknesses. It also crosses over into the world of business and work, helping managers, leaders and individuals understand the problems people and organizations face when faced with change and more importantly how they deal with it.
So what is Mental toughness and do you have it?
In their book “Developing Mental toughness” Doug Strycharczyk and Peter Clough claim there are 4 pillars to MT that you should be aware of.
CHALLENGE: Do you see challenge as an opportunity?
CONFIDENCE: Do you have high levels of self-belief?
COMMITMENT – Are you able to stick at tasks without slipping or wandering.
CONTROL: Do you believe that you can control your own destiny?
Research shows that some people are genetically ‘tougher’ than others and that is just hardwired into us. But the good news is that if you are NOT mentally tough you are not necessarily mentally weak! We can say you are mentally sensitive.
Mentally tough deal with pressure by not letting it get to them whereas the sensitive will feel uncomfortable in times of pressure or challenge.
Think about how you react on a start line of a race. How do you let the pressure of racing or hard training sessions get to you? Can you keep focus, not moan, push through a pain barrier, not give up when it gets tough, remain relaxed…
Ultimately, we are looking for our ‘ideal performance state’ and there are a few ways we can work towards that.
IMPROVE SELF AWARENESS: know your strengths, identify your weaknesses. Action plan for difficult situations in competition and practice that plan.
BECOME RESILIENT: Develop a refocusing routine to use to bounce back quickly from mistakes. If… then… Your goal is to achieve the same winning mindset in every situation.
INCREASE CONFIDENCE: Have your mind full of past successes and remember these tough situations in training
TOUGH THINKING: Master your self-talk and chose what thoughts you use. Recognise negative thinking and reframe it to positive.
PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE: Identify what skills (technical, physical and mental) you need to show up at your best when you really need it. Write them down, stick them somewhere prominent.
Just like training there are a lot of moving parts to developing mental toughness and just like building your aerobic base it will not happen overnight. It’s a process that if you put time and effort into, you will reap the rewards.
Monday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Tempo
Today we will hold tempo for 2 long blocks and one shorter block. Keep asking yourself if you are running a 7/10 effort during this session.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Sports City
Session: Track Tuesday
This week our over/unders have increased from 800m to 1000m. Paces are the same as last week. This is your chance to run fast with the wider InnerFight Endurance Community and Coaches.
Wednesday
Time: 5:59am & 5:59pm
Location: InnerFight
Session: Ladies Only Intervals
We will be running our intervals around the Olivia apartments this week for 1 loop and then in the park for a shorter loop. Try and pick up the pace on the shorter park loops.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Kite Beach
Session: The Coffee Run
This week our efforts will build from 4/10 to 7/10 over 3 blocks of builders. You therefore have 3 attempts to hit that 7/10 feeling. We recommend that you do not start off too fast on this one.
Sunday
Time: 5:29am
Location: InnerFight
Session: Long Run
We will be running from InnerFight this Sunday. There are various options from 15km to 35km depending on which races you have coming up. If you would rather run for time, that is also fine! Routes will be shared in WhatsApp and on TrainingPeaks.
We will kick the week off on Monday with heavy single-leg work and move on to a fast interval workout. Tuesday is about the sandbags with a tough set of EMOMs followed by a partner workout. Wednesday, we have more focus on our strict pull-ups and then a gymnastics and running-based workout. Thursday, we will hit some technical work on a clean complex and follow it up with some heavy clean singles, followed by a tough and fast-paced workout with rowing cleans and wall balls. Friday, we finish the week with some heavy Jerks in the skill and then a gruelling chipper.
Monday:
Strength:
Walking Dumbell Lunges
Conditioning:
In a 2 min window
25 KB Sumo deadlift (2x24/16)
Amrap DU
rest 2 mins
In a 2 min window
16 Weighted Box Step Ups 1 x KB 24/16
AMRAP Cals Bike
rest 2 mins
x3
Tuesday:
Strength:
Building Weight Sandbag To Shoulder
Conditioning:
In Pairs
100 sandbags to shoulder (80/50)
Every 4 mins
1 car park lap farmers carry 2 x 32/24
Wednesday:
Strength:
A) Strict Pull Ups
B) KB Push Press + Pull Ups + Side Plank
Conditioning:
16 min amrap
Pool Run
10 burpee pull-ups
3 wall walks
Thursday:
Strength:
A) Clean Pull + Hang Squat Clean + Front Squat
B) Squat Clean
Conditioning:
For time:
500/400m row
30 squat clean (60/40)
50 WallBalls
Friday:
Strength:
A) Push Jerk
Conditioning:
It's an awesome triplet to end the week! Therapyyyyy!
ENGINE
Working on holding our MIKKOS score calories for longer blocks of time.
GYMNASTICS
This week, we will focus on rope climbing, doubleunders, and handstand push-ups in gymnastics. We will focus on the skill elements to help you with these movements! Whether you have these movements down or not, this class will help you improve in all these movements so you're ready to attack classes!
HYROX
We start to put together the pieces and do a mini HYROX
MOBILITY
We will go over full-body flow routines focusing on flexibility for full-body alignment.
PURE STRENGTH
In Pure Strength, we start the week with some percentage work on the close grip bench press, followed by heavy rows and a shoulder pump to finish. Wednesday, we worked up to a heavy single on the deadlift, with some tough drop sets followed by some heavy single leg work.
WEIGHTLIFTING
Snatch Focus this week, and we get into over-head squats before working into some Snatch High Pulls and Hang Snatch and then finish with some heavy Snatch singles!
Track Tuesday
Week two of our over/unders block, this week we move to 1km efforts.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1 hour
Wednesday Ride
Wednesday ride* 5.59am BOTS. << use links/details from a few months back
4 X 8min at your best effort, what have you got?
Start time: 05:59am
Session Length: 1 hour
Location: BOTS - https://goo.gl/maps/6AwtJXW8nA45Cy9H8
The Coffee Run
Our classic builders set this week, 5min builds based on effort! A great tempo run.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session length: 1 hour
Location: Common Grounds, Jumeirah Beach Track
Saturday Ride
Back to a long ride today, 105km in the group with some structured intervals to follow.
Start time: 05:59am
Session Length: 1 hour
Location: BOTS - https://goo.gl/maps/6AwtJXW8nA45Cy9H8
Sunday long run
Team IFE on Tour are 3 weeks out from the marathon in Munich, so they need to run long. Why not come along and support with some miles to? Message sh@innerfight.com to find out more.
Start time: 05:29am
Session Length: 1 hour
Location: From InnerFight
Mental toughness in athletes is a hot topic and we always hear of athletes who are “mentally tough” thriving over their competition. It has been at the forefront of many studies and research papers.
It can be a way for athletes to understand their own capacity, strengths, weaknesses. It also crosses over into the world of business and work, helping managers, leaders and individuals understand the problems people and organizations face when faced with change and more importantly how they deal with it.
So what is Mental toughness and do you have it?
In their book “Developing Mental toughness” Doug Strycharczyk and Peter Clough claim there are 4 pillars to MT that you should be aware of.
CHALLENGE: Do you see challenge as an opportunity?
CONFIDENCE: Do you have high levels of self-belief?
COMMITMENT – Are you able to stick at tasks without slipping or wandering.
CONTROL: Do you believe that you can control your own destiny?
Research shows that some people are genetically ‘tougher’ than others and that is just hardwired into us. But the good news is that if you are NOT mentally tough you are not necessarily mentally weak! We can say you are mentally sensitive.
Mentally tough deal with pressure by not letting it get to them whereas the sensitive will feel uncomfortable in times of pressure or challenge.
Think about how you react on a start line of a race. How do you let the pressure of racing or hard training sessions get to you? Can you keep focus, not moan, push through a pain barrier, not give up when it gets tough, remain relaxed…
Ultimately, we are looking for our ‘ideal performance state’ and there are a few ways we can work towards that.
IMPROVE SELF AWARENESS: know your strengths, identify your weaknesses. Action plan for difficult situations in competition and practice that plan.
BECOME RESILIENT: Develop a refocusing routine to use to bounce back quickly from mistakes. If… then… Your goal is to achieve the same winning mindset in every situation.
INCREASE CONFIDENCE: Have your mind full of past successes and remember these tough situations in training
TOUGH THINKING: Master your self-talk and chose what thoughts you use. Recognise negative thinking and reframe it to positive.
PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE: Identify what skills (technical, physical and mental) you need to show up at your best when you really need it. Write them down, stick them somewhere prominent.
Just like training there are a lot of moving parts to developing mental toughness and just like building your aerobic base it will not happen overnight. It’s a process that if you put time and effort into, you will reap the rewards.
Mental toughness in athletes is a hot topic and we always hear of athletes who are “mentally tough” thriving over their competition. It has been at the forefront of many studies and research papers.
It can be a way for athletes to understand their own capacity, strengths, weaknesses. It also crosses over into the world of business and work, helping managers, leaders and individuals understand the problems people and organizations face when faced with change and more importantly how they deal with it.
So what is Mental toughness and do you have it?
In their book “Developing Mental toughness” Doug Strycharczyk and Peter Clough claim there are 4 pillars to MT that you should be aware of.
CHALLENGE: Do you see challenge as an opportunity?
CONFIDENCE: Do you have high levels of self-belief?
COMMITMENT – Are you able to stick at tasks without slipping or wandering.
CONTROL: Do you believe that you can control your own destiny?
Research shows that some people are genetically ‘tougher’ than others and that is just hardwired into us. But the good news is that if you are NOT mentally tough you are not necessarily mentally weak! We can say you are mentally sensitive.
Mentally tough deal with pressure by not letting it get to them whereas the sensitive will feel uncomfortable in times of pressure or challenge.
Think about how you react on a start line of a race. How do you let the pressure of racing or hard training sessions get to you? Can you keep focus, not moan, push through a pain barrier, not give up when it gets tough, remain relaxed…
Ultimately, we are looking for our ‘ideal performance state’ and there are a few ways we can work towards that.
IMPROVE SELF AWARENESS: know your strengths, identify your weaknesses. Action plan for difficult situations in competition and practice that plan.
BECOME RESILIENT: Develop a refocusing routine to use to bounce back quickly from mistakes. If… then… Your goal is to achieve the same winning mindset in every situation.
INCREASE CONFIDENCE: Have your mind full of past successes and remember these tough situations in training
TOUGH THINKING: Master your self-talk and chose what thoughts you use. Recognise negative thinking and reframe it to positive.
PERFORM UNDER PRESSURE: Identify what skills (technical, physical and mental) you need to show up at your best when you really need it. Write them down, stick them somewhere prominent.
Just like training there are a lot of moving parts to developing mental toughness and just like building your aerobic base it will not happen overnight. It’s a process that if you put time and effort into, you will reap the rewards.