Tag: Sport Psychology
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How to optimize the Off-Season
With fall sport season concluded and winter sports deep into the season, many athletes will be entering their off-season and off-season training programs. In today’s blog, we will discuss a simple X-step process to optimize the off-season. The only tools needed are a notebook and pen. As you continue to progress through the off-season, make sure…
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Conquering Performance Anxiety in Sports: Unleashing Your Clutch Potential
To Sink or Swim Performance anxiety, often referred to as nerves, jitters, or the yips is a formidable opponent that plagues athletes often at crucial moments in a game or competition. It’s the pounding heart, sweaty palms, and racing thoughts that can leave even the most skilled athletes feeling overwhelmed. The good news is totally…
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Sports Are Boring.
And they should be. It is easy to get distracted by the bright lights of professional sports on Prime Time TV. Our sport heroes living out the worlds’ childhood dream of playing sports for a living. It seems their lives’ revolve around rivalries, bowl games, Olympic and International competition. We see them step off the…
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Breaking the Slump
The slump is one of the most dreaded situations in sport. It occurs when an athlete seems to be in an unbreakable streak of failures, stringing together 10 if not 100 missed opportunities. Nothing seems to be helping, coaches are starting to bench you in favor of other players, and you can’t figure out what…
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An Athlete’s Guide to Taper
On one hand, a championship taper is an incredibly simple thing, reduce your total volume and workload and let your body rest. Seems simple enough, however any athlete who has directly experienced a taper, or any coach who has managed a team during a taper knows it is anything but simple. As your body heals…
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Sports WILL Return, Will YOU Be Ready?
With the global freeze we have been experiencing in the sports world, it can be easy to become complacent with the thought: Nobody is doing any meaningful training, why should I? While we do not have all the answers regarding when we will return to the fields, pools, courts, and courses what we can be…