Performance

How Gratitude Can Improve Performance
Champion or defeated? Sports constantly presents challenges and adversity, exposing athletes with enough grit and gratitude to overcome adversity and those who will crumble under the pressure. But what distinguishes the champions from the defeated? What can we do to cultivate grit and resilience to optimize performance in sports and...
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Parenting Tips

Do you understand how expectations may affect your sport performance?
Expectation is defined as ‘a strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future’. Expectations can affect athletes in various ways and can lead performers to...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Using Imagery for Sport Performance
Imagery is a mental skill with which many of us are familiar. If done correctly, and adapted for the needs of the athlete, imagery can be an effective mental skill...
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Athlete Development

An Insight into Your Coach’s Behaviour
In any sport, it is generally accepted that the performance of a coach influences the performance of their athlete/team. So, it is not only important to assess the factors that...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Why is Confidence important for Young Athletes?
Young athletes will experience times when they struggle with their confidence and it is low, they will also experience the opposite where confidence is high, and everything seems to be...
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Applied Sport Psychology

EI and the golf round
The long route of the golf course contains a trail that can last anything between 2 to 4 hours. Whilst this is an incredibly long time for one to process...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Student athletes - Demands faced and resources available
University and being a student-athlete is a great experience that many people reflect on with fond memories. Use this article and other resources or support available to you to help...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Exploring the relationship between alcohol and rugby
Our drinking club has a rugby problem? There is a long standing yet peculiar relationship between alcohol and rugby. Some of amateur rugby clubs throughout the UK and Ireland survive...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Shift from superstitions and develop your pre-performance routine
Many athletes talk about superstitions that they have in the build up to matches, races or competitions. These superstitions are compulsive actions that don’t necessarily serve a purpose and can...
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Coaching

Lesser spotted diagnosis – ADHD in sport
ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is a mental disorder starting in early years which can go on to have significant negative effects on lives if not spotted and addressed (1)....
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