
Episode 22- Mental Toughness: How to Survive When Prep Gets Hard
About this episode
This week, Mandy and Gillian dive deep into the hard times all athletes endure in contest prep and discuss helpful strategies that create mental toughness that is necessary in order to be successful in reaching your goals 👊🏼💥 The BAB’s hosts share some of their most challenging experiences in prep and how they manage to persevere when calories and energy are low.
If you’re a competitor you know how challenging it can be to hold down the fort as a busy woman while striving to achieve a competitive physique. We hope that this week’s episode helps you to realize that you’re not alone in how you’re feeling and that it IS possible to develop the mental toughness to achieve something that at times, seems impossible!
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