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Applied Sport Psychology

Positive coaching, coping and disengagement

Positive Coaching, Coping and Disengagement 'The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.' Vince Lombardi The quote above is relevant to mindset. It is...

Applied Sport Psychology

What is the purpose of training?

Answering this question will provide direction for every coach and sport psychologist. For me this is simple: to improve the athlete's technique, skills, tactics and self-development. Athletes will spend hours...

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...

Applied Sport Psychology

On the pitch: Inside an experts mind

How it is that an expert footballer can play a perfectly weighted 50 yard pass cutting through the oppositions defence when under immense pressure. Swap them with a considerably less...

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...

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...

Applied Sport Psychology

Debriefing in sport

In applied sport psychology debriefing is an area which has yet to be examined (Hogg, 2002). Most research relating to debriefing has focused on performance evaluationwhich has been looked at in more depth (Hogg, 2002)....

Team Building

Team cohesion

Coaches often talk about teams needing time to “gel” in order to perform at their maximum potential. What exactly does this mean? It has been evidenced time & time again...

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...

Leadership

How emotional Intelligence can enhance coaching practices

Emotional intelligence is a popular construct associated to business, education, health and more recently sport. There is clear evidence to substantiate that emotional intelligence is beneficial for performance. A number of...

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)....

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