Strength Conditioning Coach - Daniel Jahn Talks About Mental Toughness
Channel: Mental Toughness Trainer
Date: 2011-11-03

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Daniel Jahn, President of Max Sports Conditioning and former D-1 baseball player gives us his views on how to create the kind of mental toughness that is required at the D-1 level.  
 
0:18 - What's The Secret To Athletic Success?
You need to find somebody who can bring out that extra in you, but as soon as you recognize it's there, you need to hold fast to that.  Hold tight to it and you need to learn how to hold yourself accountable.  Be highly self-disciplined about what you're trying to do.  

And if you really want to achieve the goal, then you're going to do what's necessary. You just got to ask yourself how bad you really want to achieve it.  Are you willing to sacrifice everything that you need to sacrifice to achieve the goal or not?  There's only one way.  You're either going this direction or you're going this direction.  I'm either moving towards my goal or I'm moving away from it.  There's no staying the same.  

There's only other people who I'm eventually going to be competing with that are either moving towards or away from their goals.  Every day I wake up I either do the things I need to do to move towards my goal or I do things to move away from my goal.  
 
1:28 - What Holds Athletes Back?
Our culture is just far too ready to make excuses for ourselves and reasons why we can't achieve our potential or our particular goal. I think that we see a lot of times we see athletes coming in and say, "Well, gosh, you know I'm feeling a little down.  Or I'm feeling a little sick or I'm feeling a little sore or I'm feeling this."  

And for athletes it's easy because "you've got to play Saturday whether you feel good or not." Sunday I'm going to open the paper and read the box score.  And I like to tell athletes this a lot --How many times have you opened up the newspaper and looked at the Mariners box score and read there was a little "L" for lost, but then there was maybe a little asterisk next to it and down at the bottom it said "Heathrow didn't really feel too good."  Right?  Never!  Okay?  It never happens.  So you've got to perform whether you feel good or not. 

3:19 - What Advice Do You Have For An Athlete After A Failure?
No matter what the incident or whatever it was the failure or whatever they just experienced, we got to channel that energy.  The energy is there, but it's just got to be channeled in the right direction so we got to redirect the energy back onto the path of achievement.  Okay, so here's my goal, I think that I have really steered myself off the path. 

We've got to redirect the energy and let them realize, "No you really haven't.  You've only become stronger."  Now when you experience a situation like this again, you'll only be more ready for it and more prepared for it.  And you're better because of it.  And that is a difficult thing for a coach a lot of times.  And it changes a little bit with who you are working with.    

So boom!   It's done.  That's the other thing is that athletes they got to have real short memories.  They got to have real short memories.

5:11 - Athletes Need Mental Toughness!
One of the things that really stands out about the Mental Toughness Academy and Craig Sigl's program is how it actually touches on those specific areas of weakness.  The Academy is really designed to allow young athletes to take the information and use it.  

We have had the benefit of sending a number of athletes to Craig Sigl and every time we do he sends them back more prepared, mentally tougher, more ready for performance than I've ever seen.  As a former collegiate player and a coach, I highly, highly recommend that you check this program out and that you check out the Mental Toughness Academy. 

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