{"id":238253,"date":"2025-11-20T08:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=238253"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:48:31","slug":"pinnacle-of-performance-mental-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2025\/11\/pinnacle-of-performance-mental-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinnacle of Performance: Mental Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xxmsonormal\" style=\"margin: 0in\"><span style=\"color: #212121\">Athletic success isn\u2019t just about strength or skill \u2013 it\u2019s about mastering the mind. In this Pinnacle of Performance segment, we explore how mental toughness shapes elite athletes and the proven techniques they use to stay focused, confident, and resilient.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Pinnacle of Performance: Mental Fitness\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hA4LR5D4EAM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletic success isn\u2019t just about strength or skill \u2013 it\u2019s about mastering the mind. In this Pinnacle of Performance segment, we explore how mental toughness shapes elite athletes and the proven techniques they use to stay focused, confident, and resilient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":238257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,2291,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1867],"class_list":["post-238253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-psychiatry","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 02:29:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238255,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238253\/revisions\/238255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/238257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238253"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=238253"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=238253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}