Understand the mental (psychological) side of sport. Our team of experts will help you to understand and effectively deal with the situations you will face while coaching your athletes.

Analyzing Reasons for Success and Failure

The relevant question is not "Did you win?" but "Did you come up to your expectations?" The greater the prizes in sport, the more emphasis there is on winning...

Attitude

Charles Swindell writes, "The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude to me, is more important than the facts..."

Beating Burnout

Grasp an understanding how coaching stress leads to burnout. Recognize the signs and apply eight important tips to defeat it.

Centering

Centering is a refocusing technique that allows the athlete to recover composure and to redirect focus. It is promoted as a basic stress control technique.

Choking

Choking what is it? How is choking prevented. How can choking be overcome?

Coaching Mental Skills

A look at what a coach needs to know about developing a mental skills program for your sport.

Coaching Under Pressure

Higher pressure situations can cause a coach to change their coaching behavior effecting the performance of their athletes. Take a close look at the possible effects and solutions in dealing with this stress.

Developing a Championship Attitude

Before you can develop a championship team, you first need to develop a championship attitude with your athletes. Learn the four important points to develop that attitude.

Distraction Plan

In the course of coaching, distractions come from a variety of sources. It you want to lead, direct and make proper coaching decisions you must develop the critical skill of distraction control.

Expose Your Weakness

Very powerful thoughts, images and emotions are just like heavy weights. They require more energy and therefore are more stressful. With this understanding, how do you build mental and emotional weakness into strengths?

Helping Perfections Play Better

New Mental Skills Article!

Athletes who are perfectionists often get stuck in so called practice mindset and find it is difficult to develop "game self-confidence." They are athletes who are more comfortable in practice than competition.

Introduction to Mental Skills

Mental skills expect Beasey Hendrix explains why the mental side of sport is critical to successful sports performance.

Make Change Happen!

Morphing can do several things; it helps the athlete deal with pressure, gives the athletes the opportunity to try something new, it is a new mental game to play, and in puts fun into training.

Mindset of a Champion

How does a champion think? What makes them different from all of the rest?

Mood Control

Mood control is an important skill for the coach. A bad mood can snowball causing negative thinking, cause distractions and trigger the same in assistant coaches and in your athletes.

Preventing Choking

Anxiety is a natural part of performing, whether you're on the baseball diamond, giving a speech, taking the SAT's. Even seasoned veterans get butterflies before the big game. Where the problem begins is if you focus on the wrong things.

Psychological Characteristics of U.S. Olympic Champions

New Mental Skills Article!

Throughout modern history American athletes have provided some of the most memorable performances of the Olympic Games. As we watched these amazing performance we wondered what psychological characteristics allow these individuals to reach such success.

Self-Talk...building a winning dialog

Many athletes "talk to themselves" during competition. Many of these thoughts help performance, and other harm performance. One thing is for sure, successful athletes control their self-talk.

Set Goals to Succeed

There is a secret to success with goal setting. Here is the secret: sit in a quiet room with a yellow legal pad and a pen. Make a list of all of your goals for this year, now do this...

Stress

Stress can be a friend or foe to the athlete. Too little stress and the athlete will be under-aroused, too much stress and the athlete is over-aroused. Either way performance will suffer.

Training Stress Syndrome

Training Stress Syndrome affects many people in all areas of life, not just those in athletics! Learn to recognize the signs so you can prevent the final result - BURNOUT!

Understanding the Greiving Process in Injured Athletes

Some athletes will suffer from a season ending or career ending injury. The athlete who suffers an injury typically will experience five reactions. These five reactions are: Denial or disbelief, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. It is important to understand that these five reactions are common among people who experience a sudden loss, whether it is a loss of a family member or an injury.

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