Sports performance mindset and mental skills blog

Recover faster from mistakes How to recover from mistakes in your sport faster comes down to creating strategies so that you have a plan in place to be able to recover from a mistake when it occurs. Mistakes happen often and frequently in sports. That is the nature of it. Sports happen at such a high intensity of speed that requires athletes to make good and accurate decisions fast. Most things in life don’t happen as fast as sports do. You generally have more time to think t

It is very important to have a good start to your game. Most athletes understand this. However, many athletes can be left frustrated with inconsistent starts to their game not knowing what they need to do differently in order to make their performance both good and consistent. How you start a game comes down to how you prepare for it. Many athletes I have worked with aren’t always aware of how behaviors and actions they are taking prior to a game directly impacts their perfor

Dealing with the college athletic recruitment process The college athletic recruitment process  to play a sport in college can be stressful for athletes, especially if they are not one of the few who are highly recruited. For many athletes the process requires them to do a lot of work to try and get the attention of college coaches in the hopes they will decide to offer them a place at their school. So let’s look at some of the ways to help minimize the stress. Make a plan: I

I am often asked by people “what is sport psychology?” Well I could give you the definition that is given in an academic setting, however..