Mental Toughness Secrets of World Class High Performers
Everyone wants to know the secrets to be a high performer. While on one hand there is no secret, there..
Sports performance mindset and mental skills blog
Kate Allgood
- Aug 11, 2020
- 2 min
Building Mental Toughness in Sports: Unveiling your Potential
Mental toughness in sports is not just one thing. I have mentioned this a number of times that being mentally tough is not a singular...
Kate Allgood
- Aug 4, 2020
- 3 min
Mental Training for Athletes: 5 Pillars of Mental Performance
Mental training for athletes goes beyond the mental skills, such as visualization, self talk, or goal setting. Those things are very...
Kate Allgood
- Jul 28, 2020
- 2 min
Mental Toughness Training in Sports: Failure is a Prerequisite to Success
Mental toughness training in sports is something most coaches, parents and athletes are interested in understanding and knowing how to...
Kate Allgood
- Jun 16, 2020
- 2 min
Sport Performance Mental Training for Athletes: Understand all the Pieces
In this post I wanted to look at an aspect of sport psychology for athletes, that unpacks the pieces of the puzzle
Kate Allgood
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Mental Skills Tip: Learn to Control your Emotions
The ability to control your emotions is a vital mental skill within sports. Our emotions can aid us, and help use achieve great things,
Kate Allgood
- May 26, 2020
- 3 min
Learning to be successful
Learning to be successful is not easy. Many people think that becoming successful will make them happy and give them the life that they want
Kate Allgood
- May 11, 2020
- 2 min
Confidence in Sports: The Role of Self Talk
Confidence is sports comes down to a number of factors, one of which is self talk.
Kate Allgood
- May 5, 2020
- 2 min
Key to Success in Sports: Fully Commit to Each Step
Success in sports comes down to where you focus is and how committed are you. There are a lot of things in the world that are out of your
Kate Allgood
- Apr 16, 2020
- 3 min
What is Mental Toughness?
Mental toughness is a word that is used a lot in the world of sports. It is something all athletes want to have and coaches and parents
Kate Allgood
- Apr 9, 2020
- 2 min
Mental Skills Coach: Importance of Grieving What Could Have Been
Loss is apart of sports, and a mental skills coach can help you get through it and become better for it.
Kate Allgood
- Apr 7, 2020
- 2 min
Sport Mental Performance Coaching: 5 Keys to Master Recovery
Athletes understand recovery and its importance more than most people. Athletes purposefully put themselves into stressful situations,
Kate Allgood
- Feb 27, 2020
- 2 min
You are more than your sport: A sports mental skills perspective
Sports psychology is the study of the psychological aspects of human performance, with my job being to help athletes maneuver
Kate Allgood
- Dec 10, 2019
- 3 min
How high do you bounce after falling?
How high do you bounce after falling? As humans we all make mistakes, we all fail at some point.
Kate Allgood
- Dec 4, 2019
- 2 min
The Little Things Make the Big Difference in your Sports Performance
When I say the little things make the big difference in your sports performance I am talking about how the tiniest of details
Kate Allgood
- Nov 26, 2019
- 2 min
Learn to grow into the athlete you want to become
Learning to grow into the athlete we want to become is about changing who we are so we can get to and handle what the next level
Kate Allgood
- Nov 20, 2019
- 2 min
Playing to your Strengths
In this post I want to talk about the idea of playing to your strengths. Think about playing cards for a moment, when you are dealt a hand
Kate Allgood
- Oct 29, 2019
- 2 min
Staying motivated when times are tough
Staying motivated when times are tough is not always easy, usually it is down right difficult.
Kate Allgood
- Oct 22, 2019
- 2 min
Pre Performance Routine for your Sport
One of the first things I work on with any client is developing a pre performance routine, as it helps them to both physically and...
Kate Allgood
- Oct 15, 2019
- 1 min
Excellence Versus Success in Sports
This week I want to talk about excellence versus success in sports. I often ask my clients to talk about their goals and what it means to...