Sports Performance and Pressure
The role pressure plays on performance One of the topics I work with most often is helping an athlete deal with increased pressure and not letting it impact their sports performance. Pressure and stress change everything, if it didn’t people would be able to perform...
read moreA key to how to get into the zone
How to get into the zone and unlock your full potential How to get into the zone is a question that many athletes ask. The reason for this is that they all understand how amazing it is to be in the zone, and how well you are able to perform in that state. It is not...
read moreWhen working with an athlete do you just focus on their sport performance?
The Athlete as a Whole Person An athletes’ sports performance and the rest of their life can not be separated from one another. As I often tell my clients, the issues that they are seeing within their sports performance stem from other areas of their life, or at least...
read moreWhy should I use imagery?
Understanding Imagery To understand why you should use imagery I want to first talk to you about how we all learn new things, especially physical things. When we are young and first learning to walk, we learn by observing others. From there we give it a try and figure...
read moreHow to be confident without becoming overconfident
Learn how to be confident without getting into being over confident territory
read moreWhat is sport psychology?
I am often asked by people "what is sport psychology?" Well I could give you the definition that is given in an academic setting, however, I feel it is better to try and expand upon it and give an example or two of what is actually being done during a session. Every...
read morePerformance Psychology: What are you willing to trade in?
In performance psychology we help people to look at things in different ways and possibly make different choices that will ultimately impact how they perform in their field of endeavor. What does this mean? Well everyday we are presented with a multitude of choices...
read moreAthletic competence and confidence
Athletic competence and confidence are two areas that each athlete needs in order to be successful and they play off of each other. The more competent (i.e skills) an athlete feels the more confident they will also feel, and then the more confident an athlete feels...
read moreSports Recovery
Sports recovery is one of the many areas I discuss with clients when working with them. Today young athletes are competing all year round with no real time for their body and mind to recover. The demands an athlete puts on their body is a lot and to counter that an...
read moreSport specialization: Is it wise?
This week I wanted to talk about sport specialization, and how wise it is in youth sports. We are in an age where kids are playing one sport all year round and only that sport. A big reason for this is based on fear that if they don't they will not be kept on a team...
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