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Concentration is the key to athletic excellence. When you get it right, it will keep you loose and confident and help you take your performance to the next level. However, […]

Friday night, June 12th. End of the first game of the “subway series” between the Yanks and Mets. Two outs, bottom of the ninth, two on, Mets ahead 8 to […]

Mental imagery or visualization: The process of mentally practicing your performance either to prepare for an upcoming competition, enhance the learning process, replay a past great outing or to [...]

UPSETS: They say that at any given time, a weaker opponent can beat a much stronger one. When you look carefully at what exactly causes this to happen, you’ll find […]

Let’s say that you want to go on a road trip for your vacation. Would you just simply pack up your things, hop in the car and then take off […]

Coaches do it to their athletes and athletes do it to themselves. Even parents sometimes get in on the act and do it to their child-athlete right before or during […]

The serious athlete tends to be a perfectionist. That is, he drives himself to pursue excellence and is quite unhappy whenever he falls short of this goal. In response to […]

Coaches, Athletes & Parents LISTEN UP! Dwelling on mistakes during the game or match is a wonderful way to insure that the athlete continues to perform way below his/her potential. […]

I just love hearing heart-warming stories about high school and youth sport coaches who subscribe to this insane idea that being negative with and putting down your athletes actually helps […]

Get ready for the first ever Youth Olympic Games coming to the world stage in 2010 in Singapore, (2012 for the first ever Youth Winter Olympics). If you liked the […]