Sports Psychology Tips: How the Mentally Tough Deal with Lockdown David Charlton helps ambitious athletes to reach their aims, faster. He supports a range of highly motivated athletes and coaches. From ambitious youngsters and amateur athletes, as well as elite professional athletes, playing in the Premier League, European Golf Tour, Rugby Premiership and in The …
Sports Psychology Tips: Coaches – Are You and Your Team Pulling Together During Tough Times? The culture of a team or club starts from the top Right now, we’re in the middle of a pandemic with the recent government guidelines hitting sport hard. Even prior to this announcement mental health was a concern for many …
Sports Psychology Tips: Mental Toughness in Professional Football Julian Dowe is a former professional footballer whose knee injury prematurely ended a stuttering career after nine years in the game. During this time he played at various levels in England, Spain, Scotland, Sweden & Latvia. Retirement allowed Julian to observe of grassroots and elite level football …
Sports Psychology Tips: 7 Better Ways to Perform at Your Best Consistently Are you training hard and effectively? Many athletes will be spending lots of time training now BUT only a small percentage of those athletes will be using their time wisely. It is likely they will have thought about what they have done in …
David Charlton, Global Sports Psychologist Observations: Self Confidence in Sport David Charlton helps ambitious athletes to reach their aims, faster. He supports a range of motivated athletes and coaches. From talented and driven youngsters, amateur athletes, as well as elite professional athletes, playing in the Premier League, European Golf Tour and Rugby Premiership. Additionally, David …
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 …
Sports Psychology Tips: How To Feel More Confident Robbie Thompson is a personal trainer and lifestyle coach who has supported a large range of clients from mums, dads, business owners, teachers, dentists, to professional athletes, actors and celebrities. During his 12 years in the fitness industry his role has changed from a Personal Trainer who …
Sport Psychology Tips: Do You REALLY Want to Succeed? If so a growth mindset is essential In my previous post I discussed different characteristics connected to the Fixed Mindset and showed how some athletes will react to different situations. In my opinion these athletes are unlikely to produce their very best performances on a consistent …
Sports Psychology Tips: How To Reach Your Full Potential Steve Hackney is a former celebrated rugby union professional who played in England’s top division of domestic rugby union for Nottingham and Leicester Tigers. Since retiring from professional sport, for over 20 years, he has applied his elite sporting attributes to growing businesses, and the combination …
Sport Psychology Tips: 12 Reasons Why You Won’t Achieve Your Potential The Athlete with a Fixed Mindset will never reach his or her potential We’re approaching the end of year and I’ve heard many athletes complain about how it’s gone when they have been able to compete. Often hearing things like “I’m a better athlete …