Athletes Insights

How Do Endurance Athletes Perceive Mindfulness Techniques?
Mindfulness is the new buzz word sweeping the sporting world, with more athletes shunning the commonly used psychological skills techniques such as self-talk and imagery in favour of a more accepting approach to their sport. There is an increasing body of evidence noting that attempts to decrease or suppress negative...
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Performance

‘Negative thoughts and feeling tense’ A footballer’s psychological response
How can anxiety affect performance? There are many theories and models that explain anxiety in a sporting performance, an early theory implied was the inverted-U theory. Yerkes & Dodson (1908)...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Daily Mental Skills Practice
Adding daily mental skills practice into your practice routines can be beneficial.  Believing in the power of practicing those mental skills will be a game changer for your program. The...
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Mental Health

Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S): Swimmers
Last spring, Swim England hosted its annual Sport Science and Medicine conference with the special topic of the female athlete. In hopes of gaining deeper understanding the female athlete, conference...
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Well Being

Taking time for yourself - even when you don’t feel like it
Charlotte shares her thoughts on why studying less may improve your grades - and your mental health. Have you ever had that feeling that you have no time to do...
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Parenting Tips

Utilising a Growth Mindset within a young athlete’s sport journey
The most commonly known use of the ‘Growth Mindset’ approaches have been with education settings, with Carol Dweck conducting most of her mindset research in education settings. Through this research...
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Performance

Developing a Challenge Mindset – A Key to Resilience
“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” – William Arthur Ward. A challenge mindset has long been associated with improved sports performance. However, it is only recently...
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Applied Sport Psychology

How Self-Efficacy can Improve Decision Making Abilities in Sport
Five seconds left and a basketball team has the ball, down by one point. The coach has set a play for the team to execute and so far it is...
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Performance

Surviving or Thriving? Developing Psychological Resilience into High Performing Contexts
In March 2015, Leicester City Football Club were facing relegation from the Premier League and embarked on what commonly became known as ‘The Great Escape’. Fast forward 14 months and...
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Performance

A Coaches Guide to Human Thriving: How Can You Facilitate It?
The Need for Achievement! Everybody has the inherent drive for self-improvement and development. This desire for achievement places us in new scenarios (e.g. first day at university, job promotion, sporting...
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