• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
Paramountsc

Paramount Strength & Conditioning

Home of Paramount Barbell Club

  • About
    • Getting Started
    • Coaches
  • Schedule
  • Paramount Barbell Club
  • Rates
  • Contact

Mental Toughness

October 13, 2016

Mental toughness is a key difference between good athletes and great athletes; and as a coach, it’s important to me to give my athletes every opportunity to succeed. Today, I put my high school freshman to the test. I asked them to hold a wall squat for two minutes, which if you aren’t familiar, creates an intense burning of the quads very quickly. I wanted to teach these young men how to eliminate the desire to quit when it hurts and becomes unbearable, to teach them how to use their focus and determination to grind through and see the task at hand to completion. At the two minute mark, no one had quit, so I kept them going, asking repeatedly if they wanted to stop. These guys proved their desire to be great and went three minutes as a team, with no one quitting or failing. I can’t wait to see how these guys grow into young men over the next few years!!!

freshmen

Filed Under: Paramount Community

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

refer-a-friend

Recent Posts

  • Paramount Coaching Team Educates, Entertains and Inspire
  • Remote Coaching and Programming with Paramount
  • Calories In, Calories Out
  • Nutrition: Where to Start?
  • It’s Paramount’s 8th Anniversary!
  • PHASE 2 REOPENING GYM PROCEDURES & WAIVER
  • Re-Opening Updates & Info
  • Find Your Tribe, Try Paramount for Free
  • Two-Week Free Trial for the New Year
  • Youth Olympic Weightlifting Series
  • Paramount’s Lift O Mania
  • THE OPEN IS BACK! And so is the battle between Team RED & Team BLACK!
  • Hatha & Restorative Yoga Classes
  • Become a Better Version of You
  • Saturday Team Training
CrossFit Journal

Airrosti Rehab Centers

Footer

Paramount
Call or text: 360-930-9166
getfit@paramountsc.com

22402 44th Ave W Ste. A
Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043

Content

  • Home
  • Getting Started
  • Our Team
  • Schedule
  • RATES
  • News & Events
  • Member Login

Company

  • Contact
  • Careers & Internships
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cancellations

Find Us Here

  • Map & Directions
  • Newsletter

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • YouTube

    © 2012–2022 Paramount Strength & Conditioning | | Blog Archives
    Paramount provides expert training by certified coaches in small group settings scalable for all levels of fitness.
    Serving the communities of MLT, North Seattle, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Shoreline, Brier, and Lake Forest Park.