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 …
Motor Sports Psychology Tips: Case Study – Supporting a Professional Motor Cyclist Overcome Injury and Regain Confidence Gaining control of a stressful situation The Client: A 28 year old highly driven, professional motor cyclist based in the South of England who had been involved in the sport since he was 17 years old. The Challenge: …
Conversations with Kids – Week 5 For parents and guardians where we give you prompts so that you can have more meaningful conversations with your children to help them build key characteristics such as mental toughness, resilience, confidence, creativity, focus and so on. A Question for your Kids Do you sometimes think that you are …
Coaching Psychology Tips: How Coaches Can Help Athletes Deal with Mistakes Mistakes are part and parcel of sport but… Mistimed tackles, poor passes, missed shots, dropped catches, wayward drives and unforced errors can be hugely frustrating for both coaches and athletes. Sport and the nature of competition means that emotions often run high, throw in …
Combat Sports Psychology Tips: Mental Preparation for Combat Sports Many fighters get in their own way before and during fights As a fighter, you’ll be well aware that one mistake from you could mean that the fight is over quickly or that a combination of errors can put you on the back foot. In …
Sports Psychology Tips: 3 Tips to Help You Overcome Setbacks Do you fail to learn from mistakes? How many times have you come away from a football or rugby pitch or a golf course and played over and over in your head something that you should have done. When I speak to coaches’ they often …
Sports Psychology Tips: Coach Development – Helping Athletes Overcome Fear of Failure There is no such thing as failure We’ve all seen and heard about it, where a player is lambasted in front of his team-mates by his coach for making a mistake that he has made on the pitch which cost the team a …
Goalkeeper Psychology Tips: How To Overcome Self-Doubt When You’re A Goalkeeper Self-doubt can erode confidence if you let it Can you be too hard on yourself when you’re in goal in a match or afterwards when assessing your performance? We are naturally wired to think negatively, yet too many of these thoughts are guaranteed to …
Sports Psychology Tips: Life After Professional Sport and its Challenges The beginning of a new life and a potential emotional rollercoaster Every year many athletes decide to hang up their boots or consign their racquet to the shed as they begin aging and feel that they can’t operate at the level that they’d like too. …
Youth Sports Psychology Tips: 9 Tips for Children from Olympians Sport can help kids develop Mental Toughness and Resilience The Olympics is now in full flow with some outstanding performances from some athletes. So what can children learn from athletes competing at the Olympics? Here are 9 tips taken from the Demystifying Mental Toughness …