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Goals & Expectations: Do’s & Don’ts For The Athlete
By Alan Goldberg
In Becoming a Champion, Choking/Fears/Slumps and Blocks, Motivation/Goals, Peak Performance Strategies, Winning/Losing
Posted March 26, 2020

Goals & Expectations: Do’s & Don’ts For The Athlete

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 [...]

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Athletes! You’re Home And Can’t Train The Way You Need To! Now What Do You Do?! Managing Fear & Uncertainty Is What Mental Toughness Is All About!
By Alan Goldberg
In Attitude, Becoming a Champion, Handling Failure/Adversity, Peak Performance Strategies
Posted March 26, 2020

Athletes! You’re Home And Can’t Train The Way You Need To! Now What Do You Do?! Managing Fear & Uncertainty Is What Mental Toughness Is All About!

  As you know, physical training is critically important. You can’t become a champion without it! However, when you go to compete, your confidence and success is totally dependent upon [...]

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The Paradox of Winning & Its Relationship to Concentration: The Athlete’s Locker Room
By Alan Goldberg
In Attitude, Becoming a Champion, Motivation/Goals, Peak Performance Strategies, Winning/Losing
Posted March 26, 2020

The Paradox of Winning & Its Relationship to Concentration: The Athlete’s Locker Room

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 [...]

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Slumps, Fears and Blocks: What can you do as an athlete?
By Alan Goldberg
In Becoming a Champion, Choking/Fears/Slumps and Blocks, Handling Failure/Adversity, Peak Performance Strategies, Winning/Losing
Posted January 18, 2019

Slumps, Fears and Blocks: What can you do as an athlete?

It happens to the best of us, the elite and professional athletes as well as all of us amateur and recreational performers. Your “normal,” consistently decent level of performance is suddenly [...]

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Slumps, Fears and Blocks: What can you do as an parent?
By Alan Goldberg
In Becoming a Champion, Choking/Fears/Slumps and Blocks, Handling Failure/Adversity, Parents' Role in Youth Sports, Peak Performance Strategies, Winning/Losing
Posted January 18, 2019

Slumps, Fears and Blocks: What can you do as an parent?

It happens to all athletes, from the elite and professionals as well as amateur and recreational performers. His or her “normal,” consistently decent level of performance is suddenly hijacked by [...]

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The Paradox Of Winning & Its Relationship To Concentration
By Alan Goldberg
In Becoming a Champion, Motivation/Goals, Newsletters, Peak Performance Strategies, Winning/Losing
Posted October 4, 2018

The Paradox Of Winning & Its Relationship To Concentration

IN THIS ISSUE: “The PARADOX of WINNING and LOSING“ – Webster’s dictionary defines the word “paradox” as a “statement that seems contradictory, unbelievable or absurd, but that may be actually [...]

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Where Slumps Really Come from and How to Help Struggling Athletes
By Alan Goldberg
In Becoming a Champion, Choking/Fears/Slumps and Blocks, Handling Failure/Adversity, Peak Performance Strategies
Posted September 26, 2018

Where Slumps Really Come from and How to Help Struggling Athletes

Slumps and repetitive performance problems are a natural and terribly frustrating part of any sport. They can sometimes drive coaches to distraction and athletes into quitting or early [...]

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4 Ways to Improve Your Self-Talk and Get Out of Your Own Head
By Alan Goldberg
In Becoming a Champion, Believe in Yourself/Self Confidence, Peak Performance Strategies
Posted September 26, 2018

4 Ways to Improve Your Self-Talk and Get Out of Your Own Head

Self-talk is basically what you say to yourself in the confines of your own head that nobody else hears, yet that could have a HUGE impact on how you feel about yourself, and ultimately how you [...]

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Take a Concentration Lesson from Olympian Michael Phelps
By Alan Goldberg
In Becoming a Champion, Peak Performance Strategies
Posted September 26, 2018

Take a Concentration Lesson from Olympian Michael Phelps

Too many athletes mistakenly believe that when you compete, your focus needs to be on the competition and what they’re doing. There is no better example of this than watching Phelp’s [...]

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Pre-Game Nerves? 8 Tips to Cope
By Alan Goldberg
In Becoming a Champion, Choking/Fears/Slumps and Blocks, Peak Performance Strategies
Posted September 26, 2018

Pre-Game Nerves? 8 Tips to Cope

In spite of all our assumptions about what it takes to become a capable athlete – strength, agility, speed, balance, technical skills, cooperative behavior – one of the MOST IMPORTANT skills you [...]

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