19 May 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge 10 Steps to Help You Accept Perfection Isn’t Required to Perform at Your Best Does Trying to Be Perfect In Your Sport Help You Perform Better? Perfectionism in sport can be advantageous for some athletes and it can be fatal for others quashing their enjoyment and …
10 Mar 2023 Helping You Gain A Mental Edge EXPECTATIONS: Do You Set Yourself Up For Success? After consulting now for over 12 years one conclusion that I’ve come to is that high and rigid expectations can often mean an athlete will play in fear. Fear often manifests itself internally with changes in muscle tension, …
Rugby Psychology Tips: Are you a Rugby Player with Perfectionist Tendencies? This article is also for the rugby coach who is breeding perfectionists Perfectionist rugby players have unrealistic demands about their performance levels often leading to a lack of confidence and trust in their ability under pressure in matches. Rugby players who strive for perfection …
Goalkeeping Psychology Tips: How to Trust Your Skills When You’re a Goalkeeper Are you an overthinker when playing in goal? What is the meaning of trust when you’re a goalkeeper? In general, according to Oxford Languages, trust is “a firm belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone or something.” So how does this …
Football Psychology Tips: A Common Mental Game Error Many Footballers Make Is being too perfect a challenge for you? It doesn’t matter how old or how young you are or your level of skill. All footballers make mistakes because of mental game errors. These errors can be caused by a lack of self-awareness and a …
Youth Sports Psychology Tips: How to Help Children Overcome Fear of Failure Does your child struggle to free themselves up when competing? In sport, the messages that children often get from coaches and parents include: “You must put in maximum effort.” “You can try harder, I saw you give up when……” “Keep going even when …
Rugby Psychology Tips: How To Play Well When You Aren’t Feeling Great You will feel uncomfortable on occasions Do your performances suffer when you’re not “on it” or when you feel uncomfortable? Are you quick to get in your own head when you’re not feeling confident and struggle to grind it out or win ugly. …
Youth Sports Psychology Tips: How do You Respond to Errors Errors are a natural part of sport Whether you as an athlete, or your players as a coach hit the ball wide of goal, play a poor pass, mishandle the ball or miss a short putt… errors happen. Can you prevent errors? I say NO! …
Sports Psychology Tips: Why You Should Meditate To Improve Your Sport Performance? Often we can get caught up in judging ourselves, other people or situations Are you guilty of being too judgmental? When considering how and when we form judgements some people do this more than others and often without realising. For example, in life …
Sport Psychology Tips: Being Perfect Comes at a Cost for Athletes Do you have high expectations of yourself? A lot athletes I have supported have struggle with perfectionism when practicing and competing. Perfectionist athletes demand a lot from themselves. They have high and unrealistic expectations. This can then lead to self-doubt and uncertainty when they …