Train to Beat: Raise Your Game Under Pressure and Win the Points That Matter
About this book
When the pressure spikes, most players don’t lose to their opponent. They lose to themselves. Their technique, tactics, even their talent—all of it suddenly feels out of reach. The hands shake. The mind spirals. And the moment that should define them slips away. Mark Jeffrey knows that moment far too well.As an underdog Army Number 1 playing on the historic courts of the All England Club, he reached match points against a heavily favoured rival. The crowd hushed. The applause faded. And in the silence, he felt the same thing millions of athletes feel in their biggest the weight of chaos. He walked off the court that day devastated—and determined to understand why players crumble when it matters most.That question sparked decades of research across elite military training, Special Forces conditioning, personal transformation, Chinese martial arts, world-class tennis coaching, and performance psychology. What Mark uncovered was a missing layer of training—something every champion uses, but almost no everyday athlete is ever taught. Train to Beat is that missing layer. This book gives you a practical system for performing under pressure, rooted in data, identity, and the reality of competition. You’ll learn how to play the “game within a game,” build clutch habits, respond to chaos, and train in a way your mind can trust when the stakes rise.Whether you’re a tennis player, coach, competitor in another sport, or simply someone who wants to win the moments that count, this book shows you how to shift from hoping to win… to training so your performance kicks in automatically.If you’ve ever felt like you had it—until pressure took it away—this book is your blueprint to take it back.