Fear of failure is a massive source of stress or anxiety that sabotages your performance. Fear is an uncomfortable and often strong emotion caused by an awareness of danger or a threat. In sports, your fear is a psychological threat that is often based on worry or the importance of a performance or
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Mental Game Skills
Establishing a Winning Mindset
You might have the most physical talent or the most talented team and great coaching. However, if you do not have a winning mindset to support your physical ability, you simply cannot perform consistently, nor can you perform up to your potential. Follow these mental training tips to help your team
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Improving Athletes’ Self-Confidence
Self-confidence is one of the most critical mental skills for success in sports and life. It is how strongly athletes believe in their ability to execute a physical skill or perform a task. Athletes gain confidence from many sources, including their past performances, training, and preparation. For
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Advantages of Pregame Routines
Athletes benefit from routines to prepare mentally for practice and competition. The goal of mental preparation is to be mentally prepared to perform their best. With a routine, for example, your players will prepare and think consistently before each game.
Encourage your athletes to establish
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Result-oriented Thinking
Athletes today focus too much on results, rankings and position on the team. Doing so makes it hard to reach their potential, let alone feel satisfied with their game. Result-oriented thinking leads to: fear of failure, fear of success, performance anxiety, and tension.
How can you possibly get
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Improving Sport Parenting Skills
As a parent, you have the ability and responsibility to ensure that your child or teen reaps all the physical, social and emotional benefits of playing sports – and stays in the game. It is important that you support your young athletes as they are challenged with the many expectations and mental
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Welcome Pregame Jitters
Every competitive athlete experiences pre-competition jitters. Your jitters may be positive and helpful or induce anxiety and apprehension. Pregame jitters can cause some athletes to not sleep well the night before competition. Some athletes can’t eat the morning before a big game. Your
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How to Win Ugly
Many of the athletes I work with focus too much on having the perfect performance or fixate on how they will appear to others (such as teammates, parents, coaches) when performing. The need to execute flawlessly or to look good in competition undermines performance during competitive
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