The Coaches Mental Toughness and Peak Performance Training Package for Swimming

Price range: $374.99 through $414.99

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

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Description

Coaching swimmers is as much about training the mind and nervous system as it is about building strength, technique, and endurance. Swimmers can look unbeatable in practice—then tighten up, overthink, or fall apart under pressure at meets. Confidence swings, fear of failure, comparison, and inconsistency can derail even your most talented athletes.

The Swimming Coaches Package gives you the tools to train the mental side of swimming with the same precision and intentionality you bring to the physical side. Drawing from Dr. G’s 40+ years of work with club, high school, collegiate, and elite swimmers, and paired with Sara Vatore’s cutting-edge expertise in nervous-system regulation and somatic performance, this package helps you understand what’s actually happening inside an athlete when they freeze, choke, tighten, or lose confidence.

You’ll learn how to coach swimmers through big-meet nerves, negative thinking, fear spikes, plateau frustration, and the emotional rollercoaster that happens between races—and how to create a training culture where athletes feel safe, confident, and mentally tough.

This is the framework for producing calm, resilient, race-ready swimmers who know how to show up when it counts.

What You’ll Learn

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

Coach the Mental & Physiological Sides of Swimming

Train swimmers to manage pre-race nerves, fear spikes, and negative thinking
Understand why athletes go faster in practice than meets—and how to fix it
Teach swimmers how to stay loose, present, and confident on the blocks
Identify and correct the mindset patterns that lead to choking, tightening, or underperforming

Develop Confident, Resilient Swimmers

Build internal confidence, self-trust, and competitive resilience
Coach athletes through slumps, plateaus, meet-day emotional swings, and fear
Help swimmers rebound quickly between races—mentally and physiologically
Strengthen emotional regulation, focus, and recovery after tough swims

Communicate Like a High-Performance Swim Coach

Use language and timing that reinforce calm, clarity, and trust
Reduce overwhelm during warm-ups, behind the blocks, and between events
Learn how to regulate your own nervous system so your presence settles your team
Work effectively with parents to ensure they support (not sabotage) your mental-training work

Build a High-Trust, High-Performance Training Culture

Create an environment where swimmers feel safe taking risks and pushing limits
Reduce comparison, pressure, perfectionism, and fear of disappointing others
Establish mental routines that hold up during pressure swims and championship meets
Align coaches, athletes, and parents around what actually creates competitive excellence

These are the same mental-training tools Dr. G and Sara use with elite swim programs, high-performance clubs, and athletes competing at national and international levels.

The Bottom Line

The Swimming Coaches Package gives you everything you need to develop swimmers who are mentally strong, emotionally steady, and able to perform under pressure—not just in practice, but when it counts.

You’ll learn how to coach the inner mental game with the same clarity and precision you use on stroke mechanics and conditioning—so your athletes race with confidence, composure, and consistency.

This is how you build swimmers who know how to show up on race day—with calm bodies, clear minds, and the mindset of a champion.

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.

Swimming with the Competitive Edge (Digital Audio Program & PDF Printable Workbook)

A complete mental toughness training program that helps athletes strengthen their mental game, build confidence, handle pressure, and recover quickly from mistakes. You’ll learn how to manage nerves, stay focused, and develop the mental toughness that separates champions from average swimmers.

Swimming Fast When It Counts the Most (PDF Printable Workbook)

A step-by-step workbook packed with mental toughness learning, focus drills, and mindset exercises to help swimmers execute under pressure.

Smoke on the Water (PDF Printable Book)

A swimmer’s classic, now in its updated edition. Full of stories, exercises, and practical techniques, this book teaches the core mental skills of confidence, focus, and resilience that every great swimmer needs.

The Racer’s Edge (Digital Audio Program)

The serious swimmer’s meet-day companion. Designed for pre-race and between-race focus, it helps you stay composed, energized, and ready to swim your best every time you step on the blocks.

DMTS-Developing Mentally Tough Swimmers (PDF Printable Workbook)

Developing Mentally Tough Swimmers (DMTS) is a practical coach’s guide to building confident, focused, and resilient athletes. It gives coaches proven tools and strategies to help their swimmers handle pressure, bounce back from setbacks, and perform their best when it matters most.

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.

Swimming with the Competitive Edge (Digital Audio Program & Hard Copy Workbook shipped directly to you)

Swimming Fast When It Counts the Most (Hard Copy Workbook shipped directly to you)

A step-by-step workbook packed with mental toughness learning, focus drills, and mindset exercises to help swimmers execute under pressure.

Smoke on the Water (Physical Book)

The Racer’s Edge (Digital Audio Program)

The serious swimmer’s meet-day companion. Designed for pre-race and between-race focus, it helps you stay composed, energized, and ready to swim your best every time you step on the blocks.

DMTS-Developing Mentally Tough Swimmers (Hard Copy Workbook shipped directly to you)

Testimonials

A real breakthrough book for athletes! Having been frustrated using traditional cognitive-behavioral approaches with athletes experiencing freezing, choking or the yips, this book packs in all of the information you need to make a wonderful impact with athletes suffering from these recurrent sports performance issues. I was able to put the breakthrough therapy of `brainspotting’ to immediate use with my clients and the results were spectacular! I would highly recommend this book and its techniques to all practitioners who work with athletes. You will be thrilled with your results. But that’s not all. The authors wrote this book so that athletes could also benefit. They carefully put together treatment strategies that athletes can employ even without a therapist. I recommend this not just for therapists who work with athletes, but for athletes themselves!

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

Dr. G. Thank you so much. No longer does he work himself up before his big events and fall apart the way he used to. The difference in his swims is amazing. He looks so much more relaxed during his races and the results show it! You are a treasure to us!

Carla

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.

My coaching staff listened to the Parents’ auidio’s 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 swim parents … the response was so positive these parents have 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 themselves again!

Tim

I can honestly say that Dr. G’s MENTAL TOUGHNESS swim series helped me stay confident and focused, and helped me believe in myself as I attempted yet again to make the Olympic team. The audio’s helped me correct a number of mental mistakes that I had been making which had hurt me in past big meets. I have to give Dr. G’s audio’s big credit in helping me make the 96′ team and bring home a relay gold! They were an important part of my overall training.

Sheila Taormina

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

Dr. G, I have been using DMTS with my high school girls ever since you came out with it, (OMG that’s a long time ago!). I can’t begin to tell you how much I have improved as a coach because of it! And then there’s the success my kids have enjoyed as a result! Grateful

Sandy

I read this book when I was down and out in high school. I was ranked in the top three in my two individual events for our State Swimming Championships. I ended up sixth in both. At the end of the meet, I vowed I never would swim again and was to focus my Senior year just on academics alone. My father gave me this book and it turned my swimming career around. My Senior year I was able to put the past behind me, swim faster then expected, and even making a Junior National Cut to travel to Alaska to compete. That year I also accepted a full scholarship (instead of being a walk-on like I had thought). I went on to compete in Division II and swim better each year, never ending the season with out a life time best. I recommend this book to those who are willing to take a deep look around and within themselves. If you are looking for a quick fix, look elsewhere for a band-aid. This book is meant to be read slowly, so best to be read during an off-season… or committing a chapter per week to actually have an effect on an athlete.

Amazon Reviewer

Dr. G. Thank you so much. Your workbook, (SWIM FAST) and audios has helped John be more calm at meets. No longer does he work himself up before his big events and fall apart the way he used to. The difference in his swims is amazing. He looks so much more relaxed during his races and the results show it! You are a treasure to us!

Carla

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!