The Coaches Mental Toughness and Peak Performance Training Package for Skiing

Price range: $239.99 through $259.99

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

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Category: Skiing

Tags: Athletes, Blocks, Coaches, Fear, Yips

Description

Ski racing demands a rare mental blend: calm in the start gate, confidence at high speed, clarity in changing conditions, and emotional steadiness after mistakes or challenging terrain. And as every ski coach knows, the mental side of the sport often determines performance long before athletes push out of the start.

Over the past 40 years, Dr. G has helped thousands of skiers break through fear, rebound from DNFs, overcome inconsistency, and perform to their potential on race day. He has trained coaches at every level—club, high school, academy, and collegiate—to understand what truly drives hesitation, tentativeness, overthinking, and race-day collapses.

Building on that foundation, Sara Vatore brings advanced expertise in nervous system regulation and somatic performance, giving coaches a deeper, physiology-based understanding of why athletes tighten, freeze, or lose access to their skills when the stakes rise.

The Skiing Coaches Package gives you a complete toolkit for developing mentally tough, emotionally steady, competition-ready skiers. You’ll learn how to train athletes to regulate nerves, recover from mistakes, stay present in variable conditions, and race with confidence, freedom, and trust.

This is the system that helps coaches produce athletes who translate training-run speed into race-day performance, season after season.

What You’ll Learn

With the Skiing Coaches Package, you’ll learn how to

Coach the Mental and Physiological Sides of Skiing

Train skiers to stay calm, loose, and focused under big-race pressure
Help athletes manage fear spikes, hesitation, and pre-start anxiety
Understand why athletes ski faster in practice than competition—and how to close the gap
Build mental toughness into daily training instead of hoping it shows up on race day

Develop Confident, Resilient Racers

Strengthen attention, composure, and emotional regulation on the hill
Coach athletes through frustration, perfectionism, fear of DNF’ing, and self-doubt
Teach skiers to rebound quickly from falls, rough runs, and disappointing times
Build internal skills that create reliable confidence and long-term resilience

Communicate Like a High-Performance Ski Coach

Use timing and language that reduce tension and increase clarity and trust
Navigate athlete overwhelm, pressure, or shutdown with grounded leadership
Manage your own nervous system so you model the steadiness you want in your athletes
Work effectively with parents so they support, not derail, your mental training

Build a High-Trust, High-Consistency Training Culture

Create an environment where athletes can take risks, learn, and grow
Reduce emotional reactivity, comparison, and “results anxiety” on the team
Establish pre-race and in-training focus routines that translate directly to competition
Align coaches, athletes, and parents around what truly builds competitive excellence

These are the same tools and frameworks Dr. G and Sara have used to transform individual racers, ski clubs, and high-performance athletes across the country.

The Bottom Line

The Skiing Coaches Package gives you a complete mental-training system for developing confident, composed, competition-ready skiers—while strengthening your own coaching clarity, communication, and leadership.

You’ll learn exactly how to help athletes move through fear, perform under pressure, trust their training, and race with the calm aggression that produces fast, consistent results.

And you’ll understand the psychological and physiological principles that drive hesitation, inconsistency, and race-day blocks—so you can coach more effectively and prevent problems before they start.

This is how you develop skiers who not only perform when it counts, but who love the sport, trust themselves, and rise to big moments with courage and composure.

Though these products aren’t sport-specific, ski coaches consistently rave about its impact on confidence, resilience, and race-day performance.

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

Since I started working with your audio’s (14 Steps) and talking with you, I’ve finally gotten a handle on my…nerves and stopped the freezing that was going on… My confidence has increased and now I am [competing] the way I do in practice, relaxed, aggressive, and dominating! Thanks Dr. G!!

TJ

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

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

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

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

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

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

What’s been frustrating for me was always doing great in practice, beating other skiers on my team, and then going so much slower in races and losing to them! Since I started working with your 14 Steps program, I’m racing the way that I train!

Jamie

I would go to big races and get totally psyched out by other skiers and what I thought I’d have to in order to beat them. I’d end up skiing safe or pushing it too much and DNF’ing. Since using your MP3’s, I’ve been able to calm myself down before I got in the starting gate and ski the way I know I can!

Julie

I had been struggling with the GS for over a year now and it has been killing my confidence! I am so much better in practice. My dad got me 14 Steps and it has been THE answer for me! I’ve been able to relax now before my runs and focus on the right things! My times reflect it!