How Much Does Mental Training Affect Athletic Performance at the Highest Level?

  0 Coleman Hodges | June 17th, 2022

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We sat down with Agustina de Giovanni, the director of mental performance and culture for the DC United soccer team. Don’t be fooled by her role however, Agus is a born and bred swimmer with chlorine in her blood. She was a 2x Olympian and 12x national champion for Argentina as well as an NCAA All-American for the University of Alabama, all in swimming. She talks to SwimSwam about her philosophy on training athletes for high-performance on the mental side of things. Agus describes her strategies for combining the mental and physical aspects of training to make a complete athlete who can perform at the highest stage.

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