Psychological Profiling of Athletes

There's so many aspects psychologically that I think can explain some of the environments that athletes are going through and why they respond the way they do. This also recently had me coming back to working with hypnosis again and having athletes kind of because I got back into one of my old textbooks it's the Oxford handbook for hypnosis. There seems to be just a light hardness that comes along with the progression forward like training starts to shift testing starts to shift but that's something I know is. You'll notice when these individuals take a break from training they look like they lost 10 15 pounds of muscle and it's in them. Some people get niggles injuries which sometimes seem psychosomatic