The Coaches Mental Toughness and Peak Performance Training Package for Cycling

Price range: $239.99 through $259.99

All You Need to Train Mentally Tough Cyclists and their Parents!

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Tags: Athletes, Blocks, Coaches, Fear, Yips

Description

Cycling demands extraordinary mental resilience—the ability to stay composed under pressure, manage pain and fatigue, handle unpredictable conditions, and push through doubt when the race gets hard. And for coaches, the challenge is just as great: understanding why strong athletes underperform, why nerves sabotage race-day execution, and how to train the mental side with the same precision as the physical.

For more than 40 years, Dr. Alan Goldberg has helped endurance athletes and coaches develop the mental toughness required for high-level performance. Building on that foundation, Sara Vatore brings advanced expertise in nervous system regulation and somatic performance. Together they give coaches a deeper understanding of how athletes think, feel, and physiologically respond under stress, and how your own regulation directly impacts the athletes you lead.

The Cycling Coaches Package gives you a complete framework for developing mentally strong, emotionally steady, and resilient cyclists. You’ll learn how to coach athletes through fear, fatigue, inconsistency, and pressure; how to build confidence and focus; and how to create a training environment where athletes can perform freely and consistently—even in the hardest moments of a race.

Whether your cyclists tighten up on race day, psych themselves out, crumble under pain, or struggle with fear-based shutdowns, this package gives you the tools to coach the mental game effectively and bring out their best.

What You’ll Learn

With the Cycling Coaches Package, you’ll learn how to:

Coach the Mental and Physiological Side of Cycling

Train cyclists to perform with confidence, focus, and emotional steadiness under pressure
Build mental toughness into daily training—not just race day
Understand the roots of fear, choking, slumps, inconsistency, and race-day underperformance
Help athletes manage pain, fatigue, and “oxygen debt panic” without mentally collapsing

Develop Confident, Resilient Riders

Strengthen focus and competitive composure in unpredictable conditions
Coach athletes through fear, frustration, perfectionism, and negative thinking
Teach cyclists to rebound quickly from mistakes, crashes, or tactical errors
Build the internal skills that create durable, long-term resilience

Communicate Like a High-Performance Coach

Use language and timing that solidify confidence, clarity, and forward focus
Navigate athlete frustrations and parent dynamics with grounded leadership
Manage your own nervous system responses so you can model the calm you want in your athletes

Build a Supportive, Aligned Culture

Create a training environment that reinforces toughness, trust, and consistency
Work effectively with parents so they support, not derail, the mental training
Reduce sideline, race-day, and communication stress for everyone involved
These are the same mental toughness tools Dr. G and Sara have used to transform individual cyclists, elite endurance athletes, and entire coaching programs.

The Bottom Line

The Cycling Coaches Package gives you the skills and strategies to train athletes who stay confident under pressure, handle pain with composure, and race with consistency and courage.

When coaches understand the mental game, cyclists race the way they train.

When you train the mind as intentionally as the body, your riders rise to their true potential. This is how you coach cyclists to compete with clarity, resilience, and championship-level focus—in any race, at any level.

Though not sport-specific, cycling coaches consistently report that this system dramatically improves athletes’ toughness, confidence, and race-day execution.

What’s Included: Digital Version

Performing Like a Champion (Digital Audio Program & Printable PDF Workbook)

Dr. G’s core mental training program that explains how athletes think, feel, and behave under pressure—and teaches coaches how to help athletes remain calm, confident, and composed in high-stakes moments.

Sports Slump Busting (Printable PDF Book)

A pioneering book that helps athletes and coaches understand the principles of peak performance and how you can get them working for you. Readers 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 (Printable PDF Book)

A revolutionary book to understanding 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– giving coaches insight into what’s really going on for their athlete.

14 Steps to Mental Toughness (Digital Audio Program & Printable PDF Workbook)

A comprehensive mental toughness audio program loaded with mental toughness skills, exercises, and motivational stories to help coaches understand the cause of performance problems and how to help their athletes bust through slumps and learn what their athlete needs to do mentally in order to be a consistently tough competitor.

Parents & Coaches Guide to Winning at the Youth Sports Game (Digital Audio Program)

A coach-favorite. This program breaks down the most effective coaching communication strategies, the parent-coach dynamic, and how to create an environment where athletes can mentally thrive.

Getting Parents to Work With You, Not Against You (Printable PDF Book)

A practical guide for coaches to build healthy parent relationships, reduce conflict, increase buy-in, and reinforce peak performance behaviors at home.

What’s Included: Physical Version

Performing Like a Champion (Digital Audio Program & Hard Copy Workbook shipped directly to you)

Sports Slump Busting (Hard Copy Book shipped directly to you)

This Is Your Brain on Sports (Hard Copy Book shipped directly to you)

14 Steps to Mental Toughness (Digital Audio Program & Hard Copy Workbook shipped directly to you)

Parents & Coaches Guide to Winning at the Youth Sports Game (Digital Audio Program)

A coach-favorite. This program breaks down the most effective coaching communication strategies, the parent-coach dynamic, and how to create an environment where athletes can mentally thrive.

Getting Parents to Work With You, Not Against You (Hard Copy Book shipped directly to you)

A practical guide for coaches to build healthy parent relationships, reduce conflict, increase buy-in, and reinforce peak performance behaviors at home.

Testimonials

I’ve downloaded your 14 Steps and have been listening to them with my son. It is having a very positive impact on both of us! I am so grateful that I discovered your work.

Mohammed

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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Dr. G, You did a GREAT job with 14 Steps. I can’t tell you how much it has helped me relax and focus! My congrats and sincere thanks.

Gianluca

Coach G, Thanks for the downloads. I absolutely love the content. You have opened my kids eyes and I have seen the difference immediately in their smiles and improved play. What a gift!

Kris

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.

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

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

Amazing Book! Purchased this book for my husband and once he started reading the book, he couldn’t put it down. He said it was fascinating and so “spot on”. My husband played professional ball and my son is currently at a Div I college playing ball. My husband said that if he knew what this book speaks of back when he played pro ball, he would have had a longer pro career. Every athlete, coach, and parent (especially father) of an athlete will benefit from reading this book.

Amazon Reviewer

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’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

I’ve been a competitive cyclist for a long time and have always struggled with pre-race nerves and psyching myself out during my races whenever I started to hurt. What I’ve learned from you has finally helped me overcome these problems and now I’m able to race the way I always knew I could!

William

I have read your books and listened to your audios my entire life. I was a competitive swimmer when I was younger and recently completed my first Ironman. I am now training for my pro license. Your products have really helped me achieve a success I used to only dream of!

Ashley

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!