The Outside Interview: Dr. Michael Gervais on Mental Mastery
For most athletes, achieving peak performance means training hard, eating right, and maybe some stretching. But when you get to the elite level, where everyone\u2019s doing that, it\u2019s the mental game that makes winners and losers. How hard can you push your body? How much pain can you tolerate? How can you avoid getting psyched out before a big event?\xa0 If you\u2019re a top-tier professional athlete trying to train your brain, you\u2019re likely going to turn to Michael Gervais, a renowned expert in high-performance psychology. His clients include the Seattle Seahawks, various Olympians, and Felix Baumgartner, that guy who jumped to earth from the edge of space. In this second installment of our four-part look at the science of performance,\xa0Outside editor Christopher Keyes sits down with Dr. Gervais to ask what advice he has for the rest of us.