1. Increased Mental Toughness
Mental training toughens your mind so when it comes to the pressure of high performance you are less likely to be held back by your mind. Coping with pressure from coaches, teammates, parents and yourself can be trained just as well as your physical skills.
2. Greater Goal-Getting
Goals set with a fragile mind are extremely difficult to reach as you not only have to work on reaching your goal physically but you have to concentrate on staying focused on your goal at the same time. But with a strongly trained mind, your focus stays fixed on your goal easily and you don´t have to worry about losing sight of where you want to go but you can put all your strength into going there.
3. Improved Focus
Focus is hugely important when you want to achieve your goals, whether in sports, academically or elsewhere in life. A healthy mind effects your focus immensely as the ability to stay focused solely depends on your state of mind. Do give into distractions easily ? Do you have trouble focusing for a longer period of time? These are consequences that arise from an unstable state of mind. Hence a well-trained, balanced mind will help you stay focused and fixed on your goals to achieve more faster.
4. Better Work Ethic
Nothing great is achieved without hard work. Regardless of your natural gifts and abilities, the work that athletes complete in the gym and in the classroom is paramount to success both in sports and life.
Being in a good state of mind motivates you to work harder. Being able to work on one thing at a time so for example on achieving a better time when running than last time, is a lot easier when you manage to give all you have into running without worrying about anything else at that moment. Even the state of mind you are in BEFORE you go running impacts you results significantly. Meaning, once you manage to be excited about the work your about to do, boosts your performance when you actually do the work. A healthy mind permits you do that.