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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Sports Psychology Tip
Teach Kids to Trust Their Abilities
Young athletes must balance what we call the practice mindset and the performance mindset. Athletes who embrace a practice mindset have a desire to improve. They love to train and are most comfortable with their practice routines. Too much of this mindset, they may lose faith in their skills during
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Balancing Life and Sports
Coaches spend a major portion of their lives training, preparing, and coaching. This leaves little time for other areas of life, including quality time with family or recreation. Success in sports for some coaches is a priority, which can lead to an unbalanced life. You must learn to adapt to the
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Coping with Distractions
Coping with distraction is a part of sports every athlete must learn. Top athletes have the ability to focus under pressure and cope with external distractions by using routines that help them stay tuned into the right performance cues. For example basketball players dealing with hecklers when
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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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Improving Practice Efficiency
Playing competitive sports at the highest level requires athletes and teams to engage in focused, quality practice, which improves both learning and performance. How can practice be more effective without spending more time? Coaches need to integrate proven methods of motor learning and sports
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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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