Rewiring Your Response to Pressure
Pressure is often treated as something athletes need to eliminate, but elevated heart rate, butterflies, heightened awareness, and physical activation can all be normal responses to an important competitive moment. The more important question is what happens next. In Lab 6 of The Mental Fitness Lab™, we explore how repeated interpretations and behaviors can create familiar pressure-response patterns, and how athletes can begin training a different one through awareness, reframing, attentional control, breathing, committed action, and deliberate practice.
