How to Overcome Mental Blocks in Football Dan Abrahams is a sport and performance psychologist. A former professional golfer, Dan has 25 years experience in high performance sport, and has spent the last 15 years as a qualified sport psychologist working with some of the best sports competitors in the world. He has held several …
Sports Psychology Tips: Using ACT and Mindfulness to Improve Your Sporting Performances Do you struggle to remain present in the moment? Pressure is something that most athletes experience when they’re performing. The best performers are able to manage the pressure well and often go on to produce “clutch” performances resulting in some amazing moments and …
ACT in Sport, Improving Performance through Mindfulness Dr James Hegarty has a wide range of experiences as a Clinical Psychologist and a long standing interest in Sports Psychology. Throughout his career he has worked with sports people, from passionate amateurs through to professional athletes. He was an early adopter of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training, and …
How to Transfer Your Cricket Skills to Matches Jarrod Leathem is based in the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. He enjoys supporting batsmen, in cricket, as a performance coach and is the founder of the popular High Performance For Batsmen Facebook Group. Whether you’re a batsman or bowler, a wicket keeper or a fielder the …
Mental Toughness Compilation 007 Today’s Mental Toughness compilation episode includes short snippets of advice from our most recent 9 episodes. We touch on many aspects of Mental Toughness from how you deal with challenges, learning from difficulties, setting appropriate goals, as well as ways to improve your confidence so that you can express yourself under …
Golf Psychology Tips: 10 Ways To Lower Your Scores Without Changing Your Swing Are You Still Searching For The Secret Formula? Playing your best golf on a consistent basis, under pressure, when you’re competing is the holy grail for lots of golfers. It’s also a common challenge for high handicappers through to elite tour professionals. …
How To Transfer Your Golfing Skills To The Course Will Shaw is a PGA golf professional who provides golf coaching and sport science services for elite players. Alongside his applied work, Will lectures at Leeds Beckett University on the topics of sports biomechanics and skill acquisition. Will completed his Masters degree in Sport & Exercise Science at …
Soccer Psychology Tips: Does Your Warm Up Influence How You Perform? Many footballers decide before a match that they aren’t going to perform very well. In the final moments before the referee blows the whistle to start the game a lot of players are in the wrong mindset. One of the reason’s players get in …
How To Play As Well As You Practice Dre Baldwin had a 9-year professional basketball career that took him through 8 countries in all, including Lithuania, Montenegro, Germany, Mexico, Croatia and Slovakia. He is now a full-time entrepreneur who has authored 29 books and performed 4 TEDxTalks on Discipline, Confidence, Mental Toughness & Personal Initiative. …
Sports Psychology Case Study – Supporting a Professional Rugby Player Rehabilitating from Injury Emotional support at this time is a huge benefit The Client: A 20 year old very competitive, professional rugby player (for the purpose of this article, we’ll call him Jack) based in North West England who had been involved in the sport …