Applied Sport Psychology

Why we should embrace failure
I was reading the book Bounce: How Champions are Made recently, and the author mentioned a Michael Jordan commercial for Nike from several years ago. Watching the commercial again, I realised how powerfully it demonstrates the importance of accepting failure and setbacks as we strive for greatness in whatever we...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Football Referees: Performers in their own right
The majority of sport aficionados were sad to hear the announcement of Sir Alex Ferguson, one of the most successful football managers of all time. However, there may have been...
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Applied Sport Psychology

How to become an effective Leader
Within psychology the topic of leadership has been extensively studied over the last hundred years. Leadership is defined as the process by which an individual influences a group of individuals...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Resilience in sport
In my experience, the term resilience is becoming an extremely prominent term used within sport, whether it is in relation to coaching, physiology or psychology. This is partly due to...
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Applied Sport Psychology

How to effectively reflect on performance
Reflection on performance plays an important role in athletic development and adherence to training programmes. Therefore our reflection needs to be accurate and informative for athletes, coaches and sport psychologists. Franks...
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Mental Health

The benefits of running and exercise on mental health
Introduction Firstly I should state that I’m not a mental health expert. I have however studied sport and exercise psychology, therefore the effects that sport and exercise have on our mental...
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Physiology

Sleep deprivation and performance
The question as to why humans require sleep is largely unanswered.  Most research focusing around sleep has looked at specifically how humans sleep and it has been found that sleep...
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Applied Sport Psychology

Competitive Sport: Are You motivated to win or just to avoid failure?
There are many types of motivation in sport all of which can play a major role in how we handle the pressures and stresses of competition. One theory of motivation...
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Theories

Amateurs vs experts
There is a theory (K Anders Ericsson) that it requires 10,000 hours of 'deliberate practice' or 10 years (1,000 hours per year, 2.75 hours per day!) to become an expert...
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News

How will the British and Irish Lions succeed down under?
How a team operates and performs has been a major talking point amongst psychologists for years. Putting together a successful team is a great challenge across all sports for coaches,...
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