Over 5 years ago I wrote a post about what was the driving purpose behind youth sports – winning or learning. This was turned on by an email I received from a father of a 10 year old [...]
Performances are made OR broken before they even start! What you focus on and think about before your start can either keep you calm and enhance your confidence or do the opposite, stress you [...]
Old school coaching is being excessively hard on your athletes, embarrassing and demeaning them, yelling at them and withholding positive feedback. The myth of old school coaching is that this [...]
On the surface, perfectionism may seem like a positive trait for an athlete to have. After all, isn’t it every athlete’s goal to strive for perfection and settle for nothing less than the best? [...]
Athletes notice a trend when they first enter sports: they are unstoppable in practice, but during a game, they’re unnoticeable. Skills don’t diminish from practice the day before to the next day [...]
One of the bigger mental mistakes athletes across all sports make is to hang onto their mistakes during competitions. The time to work on your mistakes is ALWAYS in practice and NEVER while [...]
LOOK FOR THE CHALLENGE IN THE CATASTROPHE When the garbage hits the fan and bad things befall us, we always have two choices: We can focus on the catastrophe of it all and how terrible things are [...]
Many repetitive performance problems that athletes struggle with are a direct result of that individual’s nervous system sensing danger and automatically shutting down. These are problems [...]
The wonderful world of EXPECTATIONS and GOALS. It’s the start of a new year and with that, along with their New Year’s resolutions, many athletes begin to set goals for the upcoming season: “I’m [...]
Webster’s dictionary defines the word “paradox” as a “statement that seems contradictory, unbelievable or absurd, but that may be actually true in fact.” In the field of Sports Performance [...]
The new year is here! Is your child athlete feeling ready? As a coach, you have an enormous impact onn your team’s success and attitude. Are you ready to help your athletes make 2020 the [...]
The wonderful world of EXPECTATIONS and GOALS. It’s the start of a new season and with that, many athletes begin to set goals: “I’m going to finally make the varsity.” “I’m going to nail down [...]
