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Applied Sport Psychology

Practice Better Than You Compete?

One common issue that athletes seek sport psychology services for is to learn how to perform in a competition as well as they do in practice. Your physical ability has...

Applied Sport Psychology

Motivating players that are nervous or scared

How we try to motivate our players is often misunderstood, in particular prior to playing in a game. Most coaches spend years searching for an epic, hair-stand-on-the-back-of-your-neck style speech like...

Theories

Deliberate Practice

Anders Ericsson carried out extensive research on what it takes to become an expert. Ericsson (1993) says that it takes 10,000 hours (20 hours for 50 weeks a year for ten...

Athlete Development

Rethinking the pregame speech

I was recently re-reading Terry Orlick’s In Pursuit of Excellence, and in the chapter on Coaching Relationships, Orlick was discussing coaching communication and wrote that coaches’ pregame pep talks don’t motivate...

Applied Sport Psychology

Overcoming fear in Sport: Creating a mastery environment

This article discusses the interventions that can be put in place to help performers to adopt a healthier attitude towards their sport. It follows on from a previous article ‘Motivation...

Parenting Tips

The influence of parents in youth sport

We’ve all seen that one parent on the sideline, shouting out inappropriate comments at the top of their voice that are not only directed at their own child, but often...

Applied Sport Psychology

Motivation and fear of failure

Motivation is often thought of as simply having the energy and enthusiasm to carry out a behaviour, task, or activity such as exercising and practicing. However motivation goes much deeper...

Applied Sport Psychology

Talent - The invisible phenomenon

Talent has been at the centre of much deliberation over the past few years, not only with research experts, but also with general consultants in the dynamic field of sport...

Applied Sport Psychology

Are winners born or made?

The above question has been posed countless times and explored in many ways since the advent of talent identification in professional sport (and other domains for that matter e.g. music)....

Physiology

Concussions in sport

Every athlete is aware that there are risks that are associated with sports. Sprains, strains, fractures, and other general aches and pains can go hand in hand with being an...

Athlete Development

The psychology of the pre-patch possession warm-up

I had never really given much thought to football warm-ups. The process I believed was quite simple. After you have sent the goalkeeper with the goalkeeper coach (or with a...

Athlete Development

Youth Sport: is it all about enjoyment? A developmental perspective

It has often been said that the most important thing children gain from sport is enjoyment. However, youth sport additionally plays a huge role in the personal development of children...

Applied Sport Psychology

Building Sport Confidence

Sport-confidence has been defined as “the belief or degree of certainty individuals possess about their ability to be successful in sport” (Vealey, 1986). This addresses the degree to which an athlete...

Theories

A review of mental toughness

In sport there is an increasing awareness of how important psychological factors are within athletic performance and it is now being recognized that physical talent is not the only component...

Applied Sport Psychology

Practice or play in sport: What is best for creating champions?

In sports coaching, play and practice are said to be two of the key variables that influence skill acquisition. However knowing what is the more effective or what is the...

Applied Sport Psychology

Motivating players through anchoring

We all have certain ‘anchors’ in life. We all have that particular sound, smell, taste etc. that takes us back to a certain place in our lives. I can still...

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