Mental Toughness
Yumi is in the volleyball club. She often gets nervous before a game. She found a magazine article/that shows how successful athletes/develop the mental toughness/to perform up to their full potential.
1 Let’s get tough!
Mental toughness is the ability/to use the full power/of your mind and your will. It will help you in any situation/in which you have to remain calm/in the face of difficulty. Mental toughness means/focusing all of your attention on the challenge/that you are facing at the moment.
Mental toughness does not come naturally. It must be learned. Just as physical toughness requires long, hard training,/mental toughness requires lots of practice.
Athletes are ahead of the crowd/in developing mental toughness,/but almost anyone/—artists, musicians, actors,/scholars, teachers, and students—/can learn the techniques/that athletes use.
If you are facing a difficult tennis match,/an upcoming concert,/or a challenging examination,/mental toughness will increase your chances of success.
Here are your mental toughness key words:/Stay focused. Relax. Talk to yourself. Use imaging. Practice for failure.
Yumi is in the volleyball club. She often gets nervous before a game. She found a magazine article/that shows how successful athletes/develop the mental toughness/to perform up to their full potential.
1 Let’s get tough!
Mental toughness is the ability/to use the full power/of your mind and your will. It will help you in any situation/in which you have to remain calm/in the face of difficulty. Mental toughness means/focusing all of your attention on the challenge/that you are facing at the moment.
Mental toughness does not come naturally. It must be learned. Just as physical toughness requires long, hard training,/mental toughness requires lots of practice.
Athletes are ahead of the crowd/in developing mental toughness,/but almost anyone/—artists, musicians, actors,/scholars, teachers, and students—/can learn the techniques/that athletes use.
If you are facing a difficult tennis match,/an upcoming concert,/or a challenging examination,/mental toughness will increase your chances of success.
Here are your mental toughness key words:/Stay focused. Relax. Talk to yourself. Use imaging. Practice for failure.