Team Building

What are the effects of having roles and responsibilities in team sport?
What are roles and responsibilities? In order for a team to be successful it is important that players and staff all have set roles within the team’s own group structure. It is also important  there are clear responsibilities that all people involved with the team respect and carry out.  By...
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Theories

Influencing factors of sustained motivation in sport
Motivation is a significant influence during sporting activity. Within a sporting context motivational factors are imperative when an attempt to maintain standard is made. As a result, awareness towards sustainment...
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Theories

Leadership and the role of a leader in sports
Successful teams have strong leaders and the importance of this role is evident in all categories of sports. The performance of a leader is very clear in interactive games and...
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Applied Sport Psychology

What is sport psychology?
A recent (and, it should be said, not very scientific) poll at my local triathlon club about sport psychology led to an interesting, and somewhat unexpected, result – the majority...
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Parenting Tips

A new context for coping in sport: Age related issues
Simply ‘Google’ coping in sport and thousands of research papers appear. Even on this website 10 articles are listed under the topic. As sport psychologists, being able to assist athletes...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Sport psychology v motivational speaking
People often question the value, methods and merits of a sport psychologist. In fact this area of sporting expertise still remains taboo for an awful lot of sports people including...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Acceptance in Sport
“Don’t worry, it’ll be okay.” “Don’t feel bad about it.” “Stop thinking that!” How often do we find ourselves making these comments to ourselves or others? In today’s world, we...
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Applied Sport Psychology

The role of yoga in sport and exercise psychology
The ancient practice of yoga is thousands of years old. It was first brought to India 3,500 years ago by nomads from central Asia practicing an intellectual discipline they referred...
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Athlete Development

Education: More than “just” a back-up plan for athletes?
Elite and professional sport has continued to grow exponentially in recent history to become a universal phenomenon inspiring so many with acts of heroism, displays of courage and passion with...
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Mental Health

Depression in elite sport
Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses worldwide and in recent years the affirmation of depression has increased within the elite athlete population. Despite the alarmingly large amount...
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