Embracing Sports Psychology All athletes have coaches or trainers that physically prepare them for competition. Athletes spend a tremendous amount of hours honing their technique, working on game plans and competition strategy and physical conditioning in hopes of achieving success. Elite athletes recognize that, in terms of physical ability, the playing field is relatively even. … Sport Psychology Article>>
What Does a Sport Psychologist Do for Athletes? Do you ever wonder what a sports psychologist does to help athletes? The greatest myth in athletics is that sport psychology is just for crazy athletes, “head cases” and those who choke under pressure, bub misconception keeps many athletes away from reaping the benefits of sport psychology. … Sport Psychology Article>>
Sports Psychology Strategies Are sports psychology exercises valuable to athletes and coaches? Yes, they should be part of your mental training program. However, many athletes are not familiar with what sports psychologists and mental game experts do. Doing exercises in sports psychology is much more than visualization and goals seeing. Can these exercises help athletes? … Sport Psychology Article>>
Mental Training For Athletes What is mental training for sports? Sports mental training is a segment of sports psychology coaching. Mental training for sports helps athletes and team improve mental skills for competition to improve consistency in performance. You learn how to improve and maintain confidence, focus, composure, and what’s referred to as mental toughness. … Sport Psychology Article>>
Coaches: Teach Sports Psychology to Your Athletes As a sports coach, you spend most of your practice time working on refining the physical skills of your athletes so they can perform well in competition. You want to lead them to victory. However, talent and hard work during practice alone may not be enough to win … Sport Psychology Article>>
Mental Rehearsal in Sports Many athletes and coaches think that sports psychologists only teach mental imagery and goals setting. But this is not really the case. Mental imagery has a place in sport psychology, but it’s only about two percent of what we teach athletes at Peak Performance Sports. Weather you know it or not, … Sport Psychology Article>>