The Foundations Mental Toughness and Peak Performance Training Package for Crew

Price range: $129.99 through $144.99

The Foundational Mindset Training That Every Athlete Needs to Help Overcome Slumps and Fears, Calm Nerves, and Perform Freely Under Pressure.

Format

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Category: Crew

Tags: Athletes, Coaches

Description

Rowing tests not just endurance, but emotional regulation and focus. When fatigue builds and pressure mounts, the athletes who can stay calm in their bodies and steady in their minds keep rhythm and connection. Mental toughness here means awareness—of breath, body, and thought—so you can maintain flow when every stroke counts.

That’s why Dr. G recommends starting here. The Foundations Package brings together two groundbreaking books and Dr. G’s signature audio/workbook program to equip you with the essential performance skills every athlete needs. You’ll develop awareness of both your mindset and your body’s stress responses— so you can stay composed when it counts, recover from mistakes faster, and compete with confidence.

Think of this as your foundations for peak performance: mastering focus, breaking cycles of doubts and negative thinking, and trusting your abilities when it matters most. This is the cornerstone of lasting success: mental toughness built on both awareness and action.

What You’ll Learn

With the Foundations Package, you’ll learn how to:

Identify the biggest cause of choking and how to avoid it
Build championship concentration
Stay calm and composed under pressure
Manage last-minute negativity and self-doubts before they derail you
Quickly let go of mistakes, disappointments, and bad performances
Recognize the hidden mental traps that keep you stuck in slumps
Rebuild confidence, composure, and focus even in the toughest moments

The Bottom Line

The Foundations Package is where it all begins. By integrating mindset training with nervous system awareness, it helps you overcome slumps and fears, calm your nerves, and perform freely under pressure. Most importantly, it builds unwavering focus, confidence, resilience, and the mental toughness you need to perform like a champion when it matters most.

What’s Included: Digital Version

Performing Like a Champion (Audio program and Workbook)

A step-by-step audio program and workbook that combines practical mental toughness strategies with body-based tools to help you perform with confidence and steadiness under pressure.

Sports Slump Busting (Book)

A pioneering book that helps athletes understand the principles of peak performance and how you can get them working for you. Athletes will learn how to recognize and avoid mental traps and mistakes that lead to performance slumps and losing streaks, and develop the ability to stay calm under big competition pressure.

This Is Your Brain on Sports (Book)

A revolutionary book that reveals how repetitive performance blocks (slumps, choking, freezing, the yips) are rooted in unresolved sports upsets— and offers breakthrough methods and tools to resolve them for good.

What’s Included: Physical Version

Performing Like a Champion (Audio program and Workbook)

A step-by-step audio program and workbook that combines practical mental toughness strategies with body-based tools to help you perform with confidence and steadiness under pressure.

Sports Slump Busting (Book)

This Is Your Brain on Sports (Book)

A revolutionary book that reveals how repetitive performance blocks (slumps, choking, freezing, the yips) are rooted in.

Testimonials

Your new program has really helped both of my kids even though they are in different sports! My daughter used to get too nervous before she played and she told me how much more relaxed and focused she feels now and I can see it in her level of confidence and success on the field. My son had a long history of doing better in practice than competition, leaving him frustrated and us not knowing how to help him. What a difference I see in him now when he competes under pressure. Thanks so much — you’re a great teacher!

CR – Parent

A real breakthrough book for athletes! … I was able to put the breakthrough therapy of `brainspotting’ to immediate use with my clients and the results were spectacular! … The authors wrote this book so that athletes could also benefit. … I recommend this not just for therapists who work with athletes, but for athletes themselves!

Amazon Reviewer

An eye opening approach to working with athletes. As a former athlete and current coach this book has opened my eyes to outside factors that can truly have a very debilitating effect on the performance of athletes. The challenges of sport require mind and body to be in sync and athletes may experience the ripples of underlying problems coming out in their play that may have no relation to sport, and may not have happened recently. The authors have found a new approach to understanding and treating the most unreachable athletes. I suggest this book for any counselor, coach, teacher, parent and or athlete that may be looking for answers as to “Why?”. It’s all relevant when it comes to life experiences and this book explains why sport is no exception.

Amazon Reviewer

Dr. G, I just finished reading This is Your Brain On Sports and I absolutely loved it! It opened my eyes to what really causes athletes to fall apart and it will help me be more effective with my players!

Frank

An incredibly helpful book. It helped me make sense of my pitching problems and better yet, get rid of them!

Mike Roberts

This is a GREAT tool to use with any sport parents. I had the parents…listen to it in one of our meetings and I couldn’t believe the response. It opened their eyes. Doc, you have such a great way of presenting things. Your humor makes parents willing to listen to all the things they’ve been doing wrong and what they need to do to change without getting defensive. Bless you

Ray B

My coaching staff listened to the audio with me and are all very excited, so excited in fact that we are hosting a workshop for parents. I shared the audio directly to a couple of parents. The response was so positive these parents have actually volunteered to participate in helping to run the parent workshop. They listened to the audio’s and consciously put into practice some of your parent guidelines. As a result, not only are they enjoying closer relationships with their children, but the kids are enjoying their sport again!

Tim

I was listening to your “Parents” audio today on my drive and I have to say it opened my eyes! Especially the part where you talk about “good” and “bad” nervous. What a life skills gift to teach parents how to teach their kids how to roll with the “juice” that naturally comes up as you’re about to perform! The “Juice” is normal, it is what will fuel you. Don’t fear “The Juice” embrace it. Such a great audio! Thank you.

Wesley

Thanks so much! I finally learned how to get my parents on the same page that I’m on. They’re actually helping me now! Go Figure! It has made things so much much easier for me to do my job. I think this is a critically important book for coaches in any sport.

Jack

Congratulations on your program, “14 Steps!” They are truly outstanding and thoroughly cover all the mental aspects of sports which are challenging to athletes and coaches. We are using them this year as part of our weekly training program and the kids love your stories and teachings!

Ken S.

I want to let you know how much I enjoy and respect your series, “14 Steps.” I coach a small high school and your program not only helped my team play better under pressure, it significantly helped my 17 year old daughter who’s a three sport athlete. She used to think too much and get too nervous going into games. Now she plays the way she practices, relaxed and aggressively. Thanks for your product.

Gail

I have downloaded your 14 Steps to Mental Toughness and have been listening to them with my son. I must say that it is having a very positive impact on both of us!! We live in the UK where this type of science is not well known, but now I am persuaded by it! I am so grateful that I discovered your work as my son is only 17 so has plenty of time to benefit.

Mohammed

I just love your new book! Parents on my team were driving me nuts and making me really angry, getting in the way of me doing a decent job of coaching. This book has helped me get things in perspective and to recruit my parents to help me! I feel like I now have a much better understanding of where they’re coming from and how to effectively work with them. Thank you! Thank you! I won’t quit coaching after all!

John B

I’ve been coaching 20 years and this is one of the most versatile mental toughness training sets I’ve run across. It’s loaded with great exercises and stories that really work. I strongly recommend it to all my athletes.

Dennis

Alan, What I REALLY like about your programs is that you take athletes through the exercises and personally teach them how to stay calm under pressure, relax the nights before big competitions and how to use visualization to improve performance. My kids love doing the relaxation exercises although they sometimes chuckle at your extreme Boston accent!” Thanks for a great training tool!

Ed

I always seemed to fall apart whenever I tested on the erg. I would get too caught up with those around me and then I’d get nervous. When this happened I’d lose my energy and row like I was totally out of shape. Your 14 steps program taught me how to focus before my tests (and races too!)

Janice

Dr. G, I had been struggling with underachieving for a long time. My great practice times never translated into fast races. I knew it was my nerves but didn’t realize that I was making myself nervous by focusing too much on my times and splits! Your program has really opened my eyes and helped me see that I needed to focus more on what I was doing and not thinking! And now I am competing the way I train! My confidence is way up and my nerves are finally under control! Thanks for your good work!

Kenny

I love your 14 Steps program and so do my rowers! I play it regularly and I can see a huge difference in how they train, and more importantly, how they race! For me it’s a treat to see the excitement in their eyes whenever they race instead of the fear! You’ve got a wonderful product there!