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.
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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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Concentration Skills and Performance Cues
Every person who plays sports has the ability to concentrate and selectively attend to certain performance cues. Your kids must know what they need to focus on in order to throw a baseball or hit a slap shot. Task-relevant performance cues or important skills your kids need to focus on help them
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Mentally Prepare for Competition
Hall of Fame player Hank Aaron attributed much of his success in baseball to his mental preparation -both before and during the game. He believed you should think about the mechanics of baseball when hitting. Instead, he believed that mental preparation and doing his homework was the key to becoming
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Self-Confidence Roller Coaster
Are you on the self-confidence roller coaster? Many athletes allow their confidence to be thrashed around by immediate results and circumstances. What do I mean by the confidence roller coaster? Athletes with fragile confidence lose it when they hit a bad shot, fail to make a play, or lose a
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Mental Preparation and Visualization
Did you know that mental rehearsal or visualization can help you react in competition? And you can learn a lot from Olympic athletes by picking their brains. That's why I do several interviews a year with top athletes.
Recently, I talked with Olympic Equestrian Chris Kappler about mental
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