Peak Performance Strategies

Concentration is the foundation of mental toughness. When you focus on the wrong things you’ll get nervous, lose your confidence and fall apart performance-wise. However, when you focus on the [...]

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

In swim training there’s a term called “garbage yardage” which refers to the swimmer physically putting in the time training but while doing so, being mentally out to lunch. You [...]

No matter how long you have been participating, you will always find new things to learn in your sport. Dr. Goldberg explains why a “beginner’s mind” is an important tool on the [...]

So many athletes suffer from debilitating performance anxiety. Right before big games they’re freaking out, hyperventilating and mentally setting themselves up to choke! Coaches and parents [...]

We’ve all felt it. Those moments when everything is just working as it should. You’re in the “zone”, or in the “flow.” Wikipedia tells us, “flow, also known as [...]

Competitive sports, when held in the hands of appropriate adults, provides kids with critically important life skills that will eventually translate to success in many other performance arenas in [...]

So you’ve been practicing your mental toughness techniques, learning how to stay focused rather than being distracted by negative thoughts, and you’ve even gotten a handle on how to stay positive [...]

How to Maintain a Positive Attitude When You’re Losing This post is dedicated to a reader who asked a very important question about how to stay positive even when you know you are losing. I can [...]

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 [...]