The Coaches Mental Toughness and Peak Performance Training Package for Track and Field

Training mentally tough track & field athletes requires far more than refining mechanics, splits, or approach work—it requires understanding the invisible mental game that determines how an athlete shows up when it counts. This Coaches Track and Field package provides coaches with a complete framework for developing mentally tough, emotionally steady, competition-ready athletes.

Over the past 40+ years, Dr. G has worked with track & field athletes; clubs; high school and collegiate programs; and Olympic-level athletes to identify exactly why athletes crumble under pressure, run slower in meets than practice, overthink their technique, freeze in big moments, or lose confidence after mistakes, fouls, or disappointing early rounds.

Together with Sara Vatore’s expertise in nervous system regulation and somatic performance, this package gives coaches a cutting-edge lens into what’s actually happening inside an athlete’s body when they tighten, hesitate, lose focus, or spiral mentally. You’ll learn how to design training environments that build psychological durability, competitive calm, and the ability to execute when stakes are high.

The Track & Field Coaches Package gives you the tools to develop athletes who stay composed under pressure, rebound quickly from mistakes, compete with confidence, and bring their best performances from practice into championship meets—consistently.

What You’ll Learn

With the Track & Field Coaches Package, you’ll learn how to:

Coach the Mental & Physiological Sides of Track & Field

• Understand the root causes of nerves, freezing, choking, and performance anxiety
• Train athletes to manage pre-race tension, adrenaline spikes, and last-minute doubts
• Build mental toughness into daily training—not just before big meets
• Teach runners, jumpers, throwers, and vaulters to stay relaxed and present when it counts

Develop Confident, Composed Track & Field Athletes

• Strengthen emotional regulation, competitive consistency, and race-day readiness
• Coach athletes through fear cycles, slumps, plateau frustrations, and big-meet stress
• Teach athletes how to reset quickly after mistakes, misses, fouls, or bad starts
• Build deep internal confidence, self-trust, and long-term resilience

Communicate Like a High-Performance Track & Field Coach

• Use language and timing that reinforce clarity, calm, and execution
• Reduce overwhelm at the start line, on the runway, or in the ring
• Learn to regulate your own nervous system so your presence settles your athletes
• Work effectively with parents so they support, not derail, your mental-training efforts

Build a High-Trust, High-Performance Training Culture

• Create an environment where athletes feel safe taking risks and pursuing PRs
• Reduce comparison, pressure, and internal “performance panic” within training groups
• Establish mental routines that transfer seamlessly to championship settings
• Align athletes, coaches, and parents around the behaviors that create true competitive excellence

The Bottom Line

The Track & Field Coaches Package gives you everything you need to train athletes who are mentally strong, emotionally steady, and consistently competitive.

You’ll learn how to coach the inner game—the part of performance that determines whether your athletes race tight, distracted, and fearful, or calm, focused, and ready to compete at their true potential.

This is how you build track & field athletes who can handle pressure, rebound from setbacks, and perform like champions on the track, the runway, and in the circle.

Though not all materials are sport-specific, coaches of track & field athletes consistently describe dramatic improvements in confidence, consistency, and competitive 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.

Using Your Head for Championship Performance in Track & Field (Printable PDF Workbook)

A practical workbook that helps athletes identify mental traps, stay focused, and translate practice success into competition results.

What’s Included: Physical Version

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

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 (Hard Copy Book shipped directly to you)

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 (Hard Copy Book shipped directly to you)

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 & Hard Copy Workbook shipped directly to you)

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 (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.

Using Your Head for Championship Performance in Track & Field (Hard Copy Workbook shipped directly to you)

A practical workbook that helps athletes identify mental traps, stay focused, and translate practice success into competition results.