BRUCE BOLT BLOG

  * * * Stay in the know  " We want you on the podcast. Send an email to social(at)brucebolt.us with the subject line "podcast," or, "I wanna be on the podcast." We're only gonna be able to pick a couple of people, so we want your highest quality story. Let us know all about your life as a player, whatever it may be. We're gonna pick a couple of you guys to join us either virtually or in the Boltpen at HQ.   Tell us your story. We wanna feature you on the pod and bring some light to...

The All-Star Ballot is here! Vote these BRUCE BOLT pros into the All-Star game this season and let's cheer them on July 11th. Stay in the know See our full roster of players below:   Harrison Bader - Outfield // Yankees Brandon Nimmo - Outfield // Mets Ian Happ - Outfield // Cubs Lars Nootbar - Outfield // Cardinals Andrew Benintendi - Outfield // White Sox Jarren Duran - Outfield // Red Sox Pavin Smith - Outfield // Diamondbacks Corey Dickerson - Outfield // Nationals Jeff McNeil - Second Base // Mets Ji Hwan Bae - Second Base // Pirates Aledmys...

  * * * Stay in the know   "A lot of guys playing baseball, they end up getting burned out. And that was actually something that happened to me in my early childhood — I got burned out from playing so much baseball.   So I took a step away from the game. Just played football. I started picking up lacrosse. I found something else to play. And then all of a sudden, I actually went to a Cubs game with when my brother and sister who were in college and it just sparked that want to play baseball...

As a mental skills coach, I hear frustrated parents, coaches, and athletes chalk failure up to a lack of mental toughness. Here’s the thing… mental toughness isn’t a line in the sand where failure happens or the ability to white knuckle through adversity until the wheels come off. Furthermore, mental toughness isn’t a fixed trait we are born with or born without. Further-furthermore, youth athletes are in the process of developing mental toughness, just like physical skills! Mental toughness is a constellation of trainable skills. These skills provide the ability to stay in control of the mental processes that drive...

   * * * Stay in the know   Meet the little leaguer who got burned out, only to come back with a fierce love of the game that has propelled him to professional baseball: Kevin Parada - 1st round draft pick out of Georgia Tech, BRUCE BOLT athlete, and current minor league catcher. "In my early childhood, I got burned out from playing so much baseball. So I took a step away from the game and found something else to play. And then all of a sudden I actually went to a Cubs game with my brother and sister...and it...

  * * *  Stay in the know "Sitting in my locker is a pair of BRUCE BOLT batting gloves. I took 'em back with me to Nashville and I think I, I hit every single day. And I used the same pair for like two and a half months. Didn't get a blister, didn't get anything. I was. Yeah, I kind of like these, right? In the past, like in school, I'd tear up my hands in half a second with Nike batting gloves or rip a hole in my EvoShield I had, or Franklin's— literally my hands would bleed.But with Bruce Bolt, none...