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Applied Sport Psychology

Pressure in Sport, do athletes unlearn skills?

10,000 hours, this is the number many researchers have advocated that it takes for athletes to master their craft. Day in, day out, athletes practice to fine tune their skills to ensure that when the moment matters, they can deliver on the biggest stage. So why is it that athletes...

Team Building

Pressure Inurement Training: How to Build Resilience Like Our Olympic Athletes

Every 4 years, athletes from across the globe look to make their dreams of becoming an Olympic champion reality. This often rests on one chance to show the world what...

Performance

ACT your way to controlling anxiety

Anxiety is part and parcel of performing in sport for a majority of athletes and being able to manage your anxiety can really help you produce a better performance. Under...

Performance

It’s Time to Do Better by Women and Girls in Sports

My journey with sports hasn’t been easy. Like fellow athletes all over the world, I’ve been cut from a team, yelled at by coaches, and pushed my limitations mentally, physically,...

Performance

Mental Discipline

In order for athletes to become elite and perform consistently at a high level, they must exhibit mental discipline. They must create and follow productive routines. They also must control...

Mental Health

The development of Identity in Youth Sport

A bit of background on identity… If we start with the wider idea of self-identity, it is a clearly delineated self-definition…comprised of those goals, values and beliefs which the person...

Applied Sport Psychology

Stressors, Sports Performance and the Perception of the Athlete

Sports competition has the ability to continually draw large amounts of spectators. A reason because of this is due to the multiple situations in which no one foresees occurring. The...

Performance

Pushing athletes harder: Why getting too comfortable can be hazardous

The date was 10th October 2017. The hearts of 325 million people were racing with nervous excitement as their country played for a spot at the FIFA World Cup 2018. A...

Mind Buddy

#7 Mindfulness using your senses

Introduce your students to a really simple mindfulness activity.

Mind Buddy

#8 Slowing down to manage nerves

To help manage nerves or anxiety we want children to practise a really simple technique of learning how to slow things down.

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