How is resilience built in athletes? Research with Olympic champions points to five families of protective factors; a meta-analysis not specific to athletes found a moderate training effect (0.44)
Oct 27
3 min read
Every athlete meets setbacks: injury, deselection, a failed meet, a season that falls apart. Some come back stronger, others stall. Resilience is often treated as something you either have or lack, but the sport research read here describes stressors, protective factors and a resilience process, which raises the practical question of whether it can be built deliberately.
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