17 April 2024 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances How to Help Young Players Stop Enjoying Their Football It’s great to see a young person on the football pitch enjoying themself. Taking risks with the ball, giving 110% for their team no matter what the scoreline is, laughing and smiling a lot and …
Sports Psychology Tips: Make Better Decisions to Help Your Sport Performance Balance is not something you find, it’s something that you create Your personal core values are the things that you believe are IMPORTANT in your life. Personal core values can exist at home, at work, in your sport or any area of your life. …
Sports Psychology Tips: Helping You Understand Sport Performance, Personality and Dealing with Pressure Better Your personality can be shaped by your involvement in sport In today’s video I build on the previous 2 weeks posts where I discuss some of our personality preferences and our ability to perform under pressure and transfer our skills when …
Youth Sport Psychology Tips: Helping a Critical Child When You’re a Parent Many children are very hard on themselves, even after good performances In this video I share with you a suggestion to help your children over time become less self-critical and as a result feel more confident in themselves as sport performers and as …
Sports Psychology Tips: Bullying -The Dark Side of Sport Have you been on the receiving end of bullying? What is bullying? Bullying is is a verbal or a physical action which can include calling nasty nicknames, threats of violence, taunting to hitting, slapping, and hurting somebody emotionally and /or physically. On top of verbal …
Sports Psychology Tips: I Must Work Harder Are you being effective in the way you train or practice? Many athletes tell themselves “I must work harder”, they often hear from coaches “To achieve your goals you must work harder” or parents tell they’re children “your head went down you’ve got to keep trying till the …
Sports Psychology Tips: Dealing with Burnout in Professional Sport Are you one of many athletes feeling burned out? To do well in elite professional football or rugby you must be extremely fit and strong. Words and phrases such as high intensity, press, close down, up and down the pitch, speed, strength, high energy are words …
Youth Sports Psychology Tips: 3 Tips to Help Children Enjoy Their Sport At a young age fun and enjoyment is the goal? Parents are often in touch with me asking how they can support their children before, during and after competitive events and training sessions. They invest a great deal of time and effort for …