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Applied Sport Psychology

Making Challenge Opportunities for Distinguished Success

Imagine a time of which you had to overcome a significant challenge in your life. It could be a career change, personal loss, or even something small like choosing which...

Physiology

Restoring Balance: Yin Yang Training

Whether you're just starting out your fitness journey or an athlete hoping to maximise your results; a well-rounded training programme is essential. Training programmes are important as they structure your...

Coaching

REBT in Sport

Rational beliefs: “It will be pretty tough for me for the next few days, but I will get over it, I will be fine...There are a lot worse things that...

Coaching

What type of motivational climate is just right?

According to Nicholls’ (1984) individuals are either task-involved; meaning they are concerned with their own personal improvement and they seek skill mastery, or ego-involved, in which they judge their own...

Coaching

Can an athlete’s personality tell us about future success?

Forget ability, is personality a new way to gauge if someone is going to be successful in the future? The answer is fairly complex, but in short: an athlete’s future...

Coaching

Competitive Edge – where do you get yours?

Do you sulk if you lose a pub quiz? Have you ever kept going until you are sick in order to win an eating competition? Or passed out trying to...

Applied Sport Psychology

Stressors, Sports Performance and the Perception of the Athlete

Sports competition has the ability to continually draw large amounts of spectators. A reason because of this is due to the multiple situations in which no one foresees occurring. The...

Athlete Development

Youth Sport: More than Physical, Technical and Tactical development

There are a lot of current discussions in elite sport around helping athletes to ‘thrive’ as people (not just athletes). Sport is a great vehicle to develop skills that can...

Applied Sport Psychology

Social Support in Youth Sport…

When athletes talk about the progress that they make, their achievements, their celebrations or how they have overcome challenges and setbacks they often talk about the importance of the support...

Athletes Insights

Eyes on the Prize: How your Focus can Relieve Pressure in Stationary Shooting Tasks

Sports performance at a high level often boils down to the last moments of competition to dictate a winner. A penalty shootout to advance to the final, a golf putt...

Athletes Insights

Athletes Post-Sport: Unqualified or competitive advantage?

Many elite athletes when considering their success in sport, can probably tell you that it didn’t always come easy… in fact it usually comes at a price. When training for...

Mental Health

The development of Identity in Youth Sport

A bit of background on identity… If we start with the wider idea of self-identity, it is a clearly delineated self-definition…comprised of those goals, values and beliefs which the person...

Team Building

Pressure Inurement Training: How to Build Resilience Like Our Olympic Athletes

Every 4 years, athletes from across the globe look to make their dreams of becoming an Olympic champion reality. This often rests on one chance to show the world what...

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...

Parenting Tips

What motivational climate do you create for young athletes?

The above image is credited IPTL World https://www.iptlworld.com/ Working in various youth sport environments and with several young athletes on an individual basis brings about numerous challenges in relation to...

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...

Athlete Development

Building your confidence foundations

Confidence is probably the most frequently talked about psychological factor. Confidence is typically noticed the most when it’s gone missing, so as a result effort is typically invested in restoring...

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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