27 Apr 2024 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How To Help An Athlete Who Is Afraid To Win Are you afraid of winning? Many athletes are! Over the years I’ve had the fortune to support golfers who can get the ball round in 4 under par yet fear going really low to 7 or …
06 April 2024 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge Perfectionism in Sport is Getting Worse – Here’s Why Perfectionism in young athletes keeps on steadily growing. And unfortunately, I’m not talking about “healthy” perfectionism where athletes set themselves challenging goals that they work hard to try and attain. Where they are always striving to be …
16 March 2024 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How You Can Learn Ways To Perform Better Under Pressure Being able to cope with pressure in sport is what separates good athletes from great athletes. It’s the difference between a top 50 player and a top 5 player. Or a youngster playing in an elite …
10 February 2024 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How To Cope Better With Pressure When You Execute Your Skills Pressure exists in every sport to varying degrees and is created in our minds. To some athletes and coaches pressure is a good thing where the increase in stress improves their focus and concentration. To …
10 February 2024 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge David Charlton – Me and my role as a Sports Psychologist I don’t give huge amount away about myself and my role as a Sports Psychologist so thought I’d do so today… In August 2007, my life changed dramatically, I’d been married for 4 years to …
27 January 2024 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge 10+ Self-Care Tips That Will Boost Your Performance Levels What words come to your mind when you think of commitment? For me the first five words that came quickly were; perseverance, goal setter, driven, sacrifices and self-care. The first four words demonstrate what a lot of …
13 January 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How To Develop Your Resilience Levels So That You Can Perform Better A common question I get asked is how will you help me as a Sports Psychologist? Naturally, different athletes bring to us different challenges, so in this case we’ll look at the athlete who …
30 December 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How To Optimise Your Performance Levels Firstly, I’d like to say thank you for signing up to The Mental Edge, I hope that our content has been a help to you in 2023 and that you have enjoyed reading, listening or viewing it. Feel free to …
16 December 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How To Help Athletes And Sport Coaches Make Better Decisions You may have picked up on the fact you did not receive a Mental Edge newsletter last Saturday, this was because I was having a lot of fun in Lapland with my family on a trip …
25 November 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How To Develop Your Resilience Levels So That You Can Perform Better Resilience is a word that is used a lot in sport and is recognised as an important psychological component for helping athletes improve their performance levels and mental health. In sport, individuals and teams …