Athlos Academy's Mission
Every athlete understands the importance of physical training—countless hours spent in the gym building strength, speed, and endurance. I believe the same understanding regarding importance applies to mental training, yet many athletes wonder: is it actually possible to systematically train your mind like you do your body? How exactly to go about mental training is not nearly as clear or well-understood in athletic circles as physical training methods. Is there a mental exercise—something equivalent to performing squats—but designed explicitly to strengthen your psychological abilities across multiple dimensions of athletic performance? Athlos Academy wants to examine this perceived lack of understanding—namely, if an athletes actually wants to put in the work and incorporate a mental element into their training, what can they do?
History, Evidence, Debate, and What Athletes Deserve to Hear
All six randomized controlled trials that have demonstrated performance improvements in athletes specifically targeted psychological flexibility. This section explains how the six core factors of psychological flexibility work to enhance performance within an athlete’s mind, and provides a clear, step-by-step guide for training and strengthening them.
‘The psychology of Enhancing Human Performance’ (and associated works) by Frank Gardner and Zella Moore is the most important book in sport psychology for multiple reasons. This section tells the story of sport psychology through this lens.