Mentally Drained Before Competition: What Actually Helps

5 days ago

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Athletes describe it as feeling flat, foggy or wound up before a competition that they have trained months for. Sport science now calls this mental fatigue: a state induced by sustained cognitive effort that measurably worsens endurance, decision-making and skill accuracy. The good news is that it has been studied as a problem to be countered, and some of the answers are cheap and simple.

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