Train your mind to train your body

  What is visualization? How can we use this technique to produce better results? And what are the benefits? To get answers to all these questions, I had an opportunity to interview a special guest and a very dear friend of mine, Tom Ford. About Tom Ford- Tom has been the under 19 European squash number one. He has played numerous professional squash tournaments and has won many of them. He has traveled all around the world to train budding squash athletes. Tom has always been very passionate and interested about the mental side of the game, a common interest which lead us to connect with each other a few years ago. I could not have asked for a better guest to discuss on this topic, than Tom Ford. Below is the interview- Amit- Hi Tom. Tom- Hi Amit, thanks for inviting me on. Amit- today we have invited you to discuss about visualization. Thank you so much for being here with us. So my first question to you Tom- what exactly is visualization?  Tom- Sure, we need to und...

  Sometimes we reach a stage in our lives where despite all the hard work- results still elude us. An athlete faces such a situation at least once in his career. At such times, we start running out of patience. Our motivation during training dries up and we enter into a vicious space of negativity. Efforts begin to look futile and you begin to wonder whether you are making any headway at all. How do we handle such a situation? This blog talks about possible reasons why this could be happening and what we can do to come out of such the situation. The situation described above can be very difficult and frustrating for any athlete. I myself have been through this phase where I was just stuck with a weakness. No amount of hard work was helping the cause. In fact it was just getting worse. I then started running from pillar to post for guidance and advice. But all my efforts seem to push me further away from my goal. The thought of quitting had crossed my mind a thousand of times. Watch...