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Cricket: The batting mindset

You begin your journey from the pavilion to the middle. Maybe you’re a club cricketer, you’ve been waiting all week to play your favourite sport, been standing in the field...

Applied Sport Psychology

Emotions in sport: Applied emotion regulation intervention

This article aims to give an insight into the deliberate use of emotions within sport performance through an applied perspective. The course of the article will move firstly through the...

Parenting Tips

Parenting in sport

The role of parents in youth sport has recently been thrown into the media limelight following Gary Lineker’s article for the Newstatesman (link to the article available below). He apportions...

Applied Sport Psychology

Dealing with emotions: A practitioners guide

Practitioners within sport are required to deal with a range of emotions. These emotions can relate to both positive and negative experiences. Good practitioners will be able to notice emotions...

Applied Sport Psychology

How to achieve optimal attentional focus

Ronan O Gara and Jonny Wilkinson, among many others place the ball, set themselves, say something to themselves and then go about their business and put the ball between the...

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Sport Psychology - Theory to Application

Mental preparation in sport is a vital component that is undervalued by some sports performers and coaches. One could ague that there are too many myths associated to the use...

Applied Sport Psychology

Maintaining motivation in exercise

At some time or other I suspect all athletes find it hard to maintain the intensity of exercise. We’ve all been there; the days when you had planned to go...

Applied Sport Psychology

Managing negative thoughts

Negative Thinking in Sport It could be argued that negative thinking is a common occurrence before, during and after athletic performance.. Whereas confidence is perceived as the athlete’s conviction of...

Applied Sport Psychology

The Quiet eye and its application to skill acquisition and performance

How we learn and refine motor skills and how we prevent performance breakdown in pressurised or demanding circumstances are among the most important questions within sport psychology and skill acquisition....

Applied Sport Psychology

The role of reflective practice

Reflective practice is – in its simplest term simply recalling memories, but more specifically it is recalling memories of your previous performances. This can be your most recent performance, including:...

Injuries

Maintaining motivation throughout injury

Unfortunately in competitive sporting environments, injuries are likely to occur. As a basketball player, despite strength and conditioning training, knee and ankle injuries are frequent occurrences which almost cannot be...

Applied Sport Psychology

Can we develop or enhance the concept of grit?

The concept of grit is often discussed in the field of high performance athletics. We have seen the post-game interviews with coaches and players alike stating that “we need to...

Applied Sport Psychology

The importance of awareness

For me awareness is one of the essential ingredients of developing belief. Awareness has been highlighted by many as a key indicator of success in a range of performance environments. ...

Applied Sport Psychology

Developing helpful and useful beliefs in sport: The theory of Cell Assembly

Cell assembly theory developed by Donald Hebb (1949) explains how within the brain we develop neural pathways that act like roads, these are formed through learning, experiences, and the thoughts...

Applied Sport Psychology

Are top athletes born or made?

Have you ever seen the television series Made (MTV)? On this show one person wants to change his or her life and often wants to be ‘made’ into the person...

Applied Sport Psychology

Using music as a warm-up for winning

In a sport and exercise context, music is typically used in one of four ways; Asychnronous, Synchronous, Pre-task and Recuperative. The current article will explore how we can use listening to...

Mental Health

‘So What's Next?’ – Life After Professional Sport

Retirement – the reality! For many years, sport psychologists have referred to retirement from sport as a ‘transition’. However, Nesti and Littlewood (2010) argue that the term ‘transition’ suggests that...

Mental Health

Overtraining - how to prevent it?

We usually see the bright side of top level sports. Our favorites lifting the trophy or being decorated with an Olympic medal. We cheer for them - and do not...

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