The Mistake Ritual – Updated 2020
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 [...]
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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!
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 your [...]
In Becoming a Champion, Choking/Fears/Slumps and Blocks, Handling Failure/Adversity, Peak Performance Strategies, Winning/Losing
Posted 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 [...]
In Attitude, Choking/Fears/Slumps and Blocks, Handling Failure/Adversity, Peak Performance Strategies, Winning/Losing
Posted Slumps, Fears and Blocks: What can you do as a coach?
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 [...]
In Becoming a Champion, Choking/Fears/Slumps and Blocks, Handling Failure/Adversity, Parents' Role in Youth Sports, Peak Performance Strategies, Winning/Losing
Posted 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 [...]
In Becoming a Champion, Choking/Fears/Slumps and Blocks, Handling Failure/Adversity, Peak Performance Strategies
Posted 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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VIDEO: Your Greatest Opponent as an Athlete
Athletes: your toughest opponent is YOURSELF! I’m all for striving to be the best you can be. But when you try to be perfect, then fail and beat yourself up, you’re actually slowing [...]
BRADY’S DOWN & OUT – INJURIES & THE FRAGILITY OF YOUR BODY
On one of the first plays, in the first quarter of the very first game of the 2008 schedule, Patriot’s QB Tom Brady took a hit that tore his ACL and abruptly put an end to his season. BANG! [...]
