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Podcast 013: Jim Thompson Founder of Positive Coaching Alliance
Jim Thompson is founder and CEO of Positive Coaching Alliance, a national non-profit organization he started in 1998 to transform the culture of youth sports into a Development Zone™ with the goal to develop Better Athletes, Better People. Addressing high school and youth sports as an ecosystem, Jim developed models...
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Podcast: 011 Rebecca Symes Sport and Exercise Psychologist
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Performance

Interactions of Motivation
Theories of Motivation Motivation is a key aspect of sport and can be used to predict an individual’s behaviour during a performance depending on what is driving them. It can...
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Parenting Tips

Developing confidence in sport
Throughout my time of running BelievePerform I have had the privilege to interview professional athletes, coaches and managers within sport. In every interview I ask the same question to each person...
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Athletes Corner

Moving the goal posts
Nine weeks ago I sustained a bad knee injury in training and 7 weeks ago I had significant knee surgery to repair it. My hopes of qualifying for Rio were...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Believe to Succeed
Anything is possible!  The famous scream from Kevin Garnett, who won a NBA championship with the Boston Celtics in 2008.  A statement so simple and full of emotion that even...
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News

How do you stop the All Blacks?
Rugby union is a game which is easily won, you put a physical person in a physical position. At the international stage there is arguable no better team at doing...
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News

6 Steps to developing Confident Athletes Online Course
Learn 6 basic sport psychology steps to help you to increase the confidence of your players and athletes About the course This course is all about developing confident and successful...
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Performance

Thyroid medication across athletes: understanding the cause for concern
There has recently been a lot of speculation regarding the use of medication for treating thyroid problems across the athletic population. It therefore seems fitting to try and grasp an...
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Mental Health

Social Influence and its effects on Exercise Addiction in Group Exercise
Social influence looks at how behaviour can be changed through pressures from others within a social context, once this pressure is understood it can be in turn used to influence...
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