Applied Sport Psychology

Personality in sport: Everyone is different
Personality is difficult to define due to its complex nature; however one definition in the literature is ‘the characterisation of individual differences’ (Wiggins, 1996). It’s a well-known fact, and often cliché that ‘everyone is different’, but it is true. The fact that everyone is different is extremely important when it...
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News

The Masters are around the (Amen) Corner
The end of March of course means that the Masters at Augusta National is just around the corner, it also means that North of the border golf must be one...
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Athlete Development

The inputs of high performance athletes
Everyone is aware that the Olympic athlete has to invest their time wisely in preparation for their event. Be it technical/tactical training, conditioning and nutrition but as Olympic gold medalist...
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Athlete Development

Why we play sport
There is a lot of joy derived from winning in sport. From both an individual and team perspective, there can be a real sense of satisfaction that all of your...
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Applied Sport Psychology

What is Sport Psychology?
This may seem to be a strange question, surely its obvious what sport psychology is? Not so, as even though it has been around for a few decades now, it...
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Nutrition

Antioxidants: Help or Hindrance
Take a trip to any food retail store, find yourself in the health section and you are immediately struck by the vast quantity of available supplements all posing various remedies....
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Applied Sport Psychology

The social net-workout
With over a billion Facebook users, more than 9,000 Tweets posted per second and an average of 55 million photos uploaded via Instagram everyday, it's hard to escape the weird...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Mental toughness: Nature vs. Nurture?
Having a strong psychological foundation will allow athletes to achieve the greatest execution of a skill can during a performance (Gucciardi et al, 2008). Ŝukys and Jansoniene (2012) reported, when...
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Athlete Development

Truly applying sport psychology in youth soccer
As Coaches and Practitioners we regularly use the term ‘Applied Sport Psychology’ and ‘Sport Psychology in Practice’ but in the very real world of youth soccer coaching, with all of...
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Mental Health

Depression and performance enhancing drugs - Are we willing to understand this relationship?
The development of depression during retirement from professional sport has been highlighted by many athletes and most recently by swimming legend Ian Thorpe.  James Cracknell has spoken about his tunnel...
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