Playing Professional Women’s Rugby Taz Bricknell is a professional rugby union player, playing in the Premier 15s for Worcester Warriors. She plays in the backrow and has also played for Gloucester-Hartpury and England Under 20’s. Today I’m joined by Taz Bricknell, a professional rugby player for Worcester Warrior where she talks about the challenges involved …
World Class Thinking, World Class Behaviour Penny Mallory is a former Rally Champion and the first and only woman in the world to drive a World Rally Car for Ford. Although her interest began with automotive performance, her passion quickly shifted to human performance and Mental Toughness. Now, as a leading Authority on Mental Toughness, …
Sports Psychology Tips: How to Keep Goal Setting Simple? Many people over-complicate goal setting and get overwhelmed I had an interesting call with a client recently, I’ll give her a pseudonym to protect her real identity – Paula, a professional golfer. Paula had felt that she done a great job of setting out her goals and …
How To Improve Your Intensity When Training And Competing David Charlton helps ambitious athletes to reach their aims, faster. He supports a range of highly motivated athletes and coaches. From ambitious youngsters and amateur athletes, as well as elite professional athletes, playing in the Premier League, European Golf Tour, Rugby Premiership and in The British …
Sports Psychology Tips: How To Raise Your Intensity Levels When Competing? Competing in front of no or little crowds are influencing the behaviours of professional athletes One of the favourite parts of playing professional sport is having a crowd watching you. The atmosphere is often filled with anticipation. The hairs on the back of your …
Thrive, Don’t Just Survive 2021 Dr John Perry is Head of Psychology at Mary Immaculate College in Ireland. For several years John has been a core member of the AQR International team which has continued the development of the mental toughness concept and has been central to the work carried out establishing the reliability of …
Sports Psychology Tips: How To Challenge Yourself In Training? The level of intensity of your training is very important Do you find it tough to say motivated to practice and train at a high level throughout the off season and into the competitive season? Practice and training can be samey and boring at times, depending …
David Charlton Gets Grilled By Nathan Sherratt David Charlton helps ambitious athletes to reach their aims, faster. He supports a range of highly motivated athletes and coaches. From ambitious youngsters and amateur athletes, as well as elite professional athletes, playing in the Premier League, European Golf Tour, Rugby Premiership and in The British Superbikes. Additionally, …
Mental Toughness Lessons From A World Champion Aly Dixon is an English long-distance runner who currently holds the 50km world record and won the 2019 50km World Championship in Brasov, Romania. She has also won the British marathon championships two times. Aly is also a proud ambassador for St Benedict’s hospice in Sunderland, a charity …
Sports Psychology Tips: How To Learn From Last Year Set aside some time to reflect It’s nearly the end of the year. Have you sat back and reflected on what you have accomplished in the past 12 months? This is a great time to do it, as well as planning and plotting what you want …