I had heard stories of cheerleaders and gymnasts experiencing mental blocks but never imagined it would happen to me.

Mental toughness (MT) is more than having a high pain threshold, lots of grit, or the ability to grin and bear it. Last year, I reported on research by Kostas Papageorgiou and colleagues in the UK ...

Professional sports has long talked about the concept of “mental toughness” and how the most elite athletes possess it. In sports, it’s a psychological edge that enables one to cope better than ...

After the National Geographic Channel's Fight Science television show on Special Ops, a majority of the emails received this week discussed mental toughness, as if I had some magic solution for people ...

Developing your mental toughness can help you be more emotionally resilient, push you to go further and harder, and build armor to persevere against the bullets that life fires your way. It’s not as ...

Mental toughness is often the difference between success and failure in a high-pressure situation. For freerunner Hazal Nehir, who made a name for herself jumping across gaps between rooftops, her ...

Superheroes, or most any kind of persistent heroes, have to be tough in order to keep doing what they do, day after day. Lately, I've been reading about mental toughness, a term psychologists use to ...

The saying “whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is simplistic, disingenuous, and potentially destructive. While it’s true that some who experience horrible events are stronger for surviving ...

OKC Thunder forward Nikola Topić has been participating in pregame warmups as he continues to be treated for testicular ...

After team practice on Saturday, the head coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Mark Daigneault, revisited the determination of ...

Baseball may be 90% mental, as baseball great Yogi Berra proclaimed, but in distance running, the mind accounts for only 14% of racing success, according to new research by John Hall, a performance ...