The Progress Theory Roundtable 003: What is Mental Resilience? Can you train it?
The boys are back for 003 of the Progress Theory Roundtable.
In this episode, @thepricep, @daryl_green_ and m.tyler_pt chat about the quality they admired the most out of those they selected for their Greatest of all Time Mt Rushmore in Roundtable Episode 001 - Mental Resilience. It's a characteristic we all admire and one that many of us wish to train and improve on, but can mental resilience in sports transfer to everyday life? We cover such questions as:
- What is mental resilience? Is there a difference between resilience and toughness?
- What personality trait or psychological characteristics do we need or have which makes use resilient?
- Is our resilience a product of our environment and our experiences?
- Can gym culture indirectly train our mental resilience?
Are you mentally resilient? Want to find out more? Hope you enjoy the episode and join the journey.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Science of Hybrid Training
It was originally thought that you could not effectively train for both strength and endurance at the same time because they required different adaptations which were not compatible with each other. It was claimed that ‘an interference effect’, blunted the adaptations for strength if you simultaneously trained for endurance. However, recent developments in sports which require both strength and endurance have really challenged this idea, with hybrid athletes producing impressive performances in both strength and endurance sports together. This had led scientists, coaches, and athletes to rethink what is humanly possible and suggests the interference effect is not as influential as originally thought. But what is a hybrid athlete? What is the ‘interference effect’? And how can we maximize our training to improve at the same time our strength and endurance performance? In this book, Dr Phil Price provides insight into the misconceptions surrounding strength and endurance training by distilling the past 50 years of research and drawing on the conversations he had with great scientists, coaches, and athletes on The Progress Theory podcast. This book is essential reading for hybrid athletes and coaches who are looking to understand the key training variables and their effect on the simultaneous development of strength and endurance performance.
