Mental Skills & Sports Psychology
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Mental Skills & Sports Psychology Articles
Resilience Coaching
Being a business coach is a dream job. The click you have with your coachee is indescribable. The things you share, the actions you agree on, the progress you make. The intimacy is almost like a marriage.
High Performance Technology
THE KEY TO BECOMING INJURY FREE WITH NEW TECHNOLOGY!
Grand Final Coaching
GRAND FINAL GRABS – WHAT I’VE LEARNT ABOUT PEOPLE AND PERFORMANCE UNDER PRESSURE.
High Performance Mindset
"How do we better educate players and how do we empower players to take better control of the issues?" - Steve Hocking, AFL, General Manager of Football Operations
Coaching the Grand Final
After an excellent article written around Matt Wilkie, IRFU’s head of coach development, it pushed me down a rabbit hole, looking at how we can adjust our focus to the how and whom we coach, rather than the specific content, or focusing solely on the what aspects such as technical, tactical and stra
5 Habits for Developing Emotional Resilience
Developing emotional resilience is the key to having the capacity to handle stress in any form and at any time in your life. Channeling stress into a positive energy can radically improve your performance and creativity, making you brighter and quicker. This is crucial in the short and the long term
Are Results-Based Goals a Bad Thing
the object of a person's ambition or effort; an aim or desired result.
The Neuroscience of Teamwork
A coach fixated in believing that his message will equally resonate with each player will fail to create a cohesive team approach as individual’s differences are not being considered.
Body Language for Coaches
Reading Your Clients for Better Results
Elite Athlete Preparations
Well… unfortunately for many they are not able to achieve anything like their personal best, for others, they outperform expectations.
The Third Job
In 2009, Louise Stevenson was my first long distance open water swimmer. She swam the 20 Km from Cotteslole Beach to Rotnest Island in Western Australia.
Active Triggers for Coaching Results
As coaches, we need to be able to pick the trigger that best suits the person and personality we are working with. You get better triggers by understanding learning modalities and connecting according...
The Future of Human Development
It was in the Sydney gym where I met Fiona Taylor. She was training for the Olympics in Wind Surfing. After working with her I funded my way to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, buying a round-the-world ti...
Beware Neuro Bunk
Recently released, Pulitzer Prize nominated and best-selling book Stealing Fire reports how Navy SEALS, Google and Silicon Valley are combining neuropsychology, psychology and technology in pursuit of...
Great Results from Difficult Clients
You remember that difficult one? The client who at first appeared so eager to change, making all the right sounds, and they seemed so keen to get started with you. You had high hopes and expectations
Visualisations That Enhance Coaching Outcomes
Visualisation is my most used and valued tool in coaching, and I have been using it for a very long time – I know its’ power and potential for changing the lives of my clients.
Too Motivated to Succeed
I am the creator of The Me Project, a business completely dedicated to helping people achieve their own personal versions of success. Yet, this fact has still not made me immune to my own epic failure
The Art of Noticing
As a coach, I’m sure you’re interacting with people all the time. Though let me ask you a question, do you actually notice people? I believe that many coaches, do just that, they just coach and that’s
Coping in the Olympic Performance Environment
[H1]Coping in the Performance Environment at the Olympic Games
For Best Results, Understand Your Athlete
I was originally a 110m hurdler but ended up having a knee reconstruction and seven operations for an injury. I knew I was going to be in a bit of trouble coming back from this, and I’d always had coa
Breaking Barriers in Women's Elite Sport Coaching
Article by Tracey Hughes. Full content pending — source document unavailable.
Elite Coaching and the Gender Performance Gap
Article by Tracy York. Full content pending — source document unavailable.
Women in High Performance Sport and Coaching
Article by Belinda Noonan. Full content pending — source document unavailable.
Combat Sport Coaching and the Adversity Mindset
Article by Pat Hedges. Full content pending — source document unavailable.
Burn Bright: Jo Bassett on Coaching Through Challenging Times
My work has given me a legitimate window to look into the lives of others. Professionally, I have chosen a career where people in many situations choose to share their stories and experiences with me
Coaching the Mind: David Berens on Adversity and Mental Resilience
Coaching. What exactly is coaching? Patterns on a chalkboard? The X’s and O’s of plays and formations run ad nauseam in practice until they become second nature to the athletes on a team? Recruiting o
The Psychology of Engagement in Sport and Business
Do you remember that first moment when you discovered this whole concept of coaching or personal development? I do! I was sitting in a hotel room watching an…
Mental Performance and Coaching Culture
In 1955 Olga Korbot famous gymnast from Belarusian . First to do backflip on beam.
Sports Culture and Mental Performance: Conrad Singh
As a South African-born, Australian-educated and raised young man, I have experienced a great deal of cultures in my time. Immediately after completing unive…
Just another brain trainer?
NeuroTracker is a method for cognitive enhancement that was pioneered at the Visual Psychophysics and Perception Laboratory in Montreal. Professor Faubert, d…
Nudging the Dial of Human Consciousness: The Path Ahead for Coaching?
Socrates, sometimes described as one of the earliest coaches, declared that he could not teach anybody anything; he could only make them think.
Mental Strength Through COVID
The world changed irreparably in early 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic spread across our planet, and as the devastation raged through countries and continents like wildfire; the fear, distress, and panic set in and our lives were instantly and drastically altered.