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 …
From Professional Football and Goalkeeping to Physiotherapy Carl developed a keen interest in Physiotherapy whilst playing for Newcastle United from the age of 13, to senior reserve team level and England. Following an injury, Carl completed a degree in Applied Health and Exercise Science and subsequently in Physiotherapy. Carl started his career as a Physiotherapist …
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 …