11 November 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge Without Self Awareness Your Progress in Your Sport Will Stall It’s celebration time for me, here at Inspiring Sporting Excellence where I’ve achieved a big feat. The podcast that I planned in late 2019 and early 2020 before COVID-19 changed our lives has now reached 200 …
28 October 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge Why Mental Health and Performance in Sport Collide “Human well-being must be at the heart of elite athletic performance. Athletes should feel empowered and nurtured both physically and mentally… mental health and physical health are two halves of a whole, and care for both must be …
14 October 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How to Transfer Your Skills so That you Perform Under Pressure What are common challenges that you help children with? In March 2020, our lives changed a lot with the outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdowns. COVID-19 also changed our business remarkably, pre-COVID we were a …
30 September 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge The Art of Honest Self-Reflection to Boost Sport Performance Are you kidding yourself? As an athlete it could be argued that in a competitive situation and in training your job is to give maximum effort so that you give yourself the best chance of performing to …
16 September 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How to Set Better Goals so That You Enjoy Your Sport More Are you setting the wrong goals? The majority of people that we support at Inspiring Sporting Excellence are highly motivated, goal driven athletes, coaches or sporting parents. Yet, something I note is that many …
02 September 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How to Enhance Your Focus in Sport to Perform More Consistently? In the previous Mental Edge, on 18 August, I highlighted a small modification to future Mental Edge’s, a reason for this change links to FOCUS, and me as a business owner practicing what I preach, …
18 August 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How to Improve the Coach-Athlete Relationship? Update on The Mental Edge from David I hope that you’re well and that you have had a good week. As a valued subscriber and reader of The Mental Edge, I’d like to let you know about small change to …
04 August 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge 7 Problems Dysfunctional Teams Can Run Into In Sport Dysfunctional teamwork refers to a situation where a group of individuals (players and/or coaching/support staff) within a club or organisation fail to work effectively together. The end result often equals poor performances and problems in achieving common …
28 July 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge 5 Benefits of Team Building Exercises in Sports How to create a team first mentality to improve results in sport. A team first mentality, could also be described a team-oriented mindset or team-centric approach, and refers to the belief and practice of prioritising the collective goals …
21 July 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge How to Improve The Skills of Team Captains What you can learn from great captains? What makes a great captain? Who has been a great captain in their sports? We’ll all have different opinions, I’m sure. Three captains that stand out to me over the years …