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Performance

“Feeling the pressure playing in golf team events”

As a trainee Sport Psychologist I have carried out a selection of workshops and consultancy in golf. It recently came to my attention from some individuals that team events can...

Injuries

Can psychological measures be used to predict injury?

It is accepted that throughout an athlete’s career they will encounter injury setbacks. But it does appear, at least anecdotally, that some athletes experience more injuries than others. I’m sure...

Performance

Developing a Growth Mindset

Post by The Sport In Mind.

Applied Sport Psychology

Resiliency in football

How many times have you heard the term ‘bounce back’ when listening to football interviews? It is one of them clichés that you hear time and time again, but what...

Applied Sport Psychology

The Strength Paradox

Focussing on one's strengths as an approach to coaching has received support from ideologues including athletes, coaches and parents (Gucciardi, Gordon, & Dimmock, 2009; Gucciardi, Gordon, Dimmock, & Mallett, 2009)....

Physiology

Clean Protocol - changing athletes' attitudes towards doping

The first most notable use of drugs in sport was during the 1904 Olympics where a marathon runner took strychnine, a type of poison that when taken in small doses...

Performance

Continued Professional Development Workshops for Neophyte Sport Psychology Practitioners: Working with Team Sports

As Neophyte Sport Psychology practitioners with the Golf Union of Wales (GUW) we are always looking for ways to improve our consultancy styles. As part of this development we recently...

Applied Sport Psychology

Attentional focus in endurance running.

Defining attentional focus. Attentional focus in athletes can be split into two broad strategies, that of association and dissociation (Lind et al. 2009). A range of terms for association and...

Nutrition

Considering beta-alanine supplementation?

Carnosine is a substance found in high concentrations in skeletal muscle. It is formed by the bonding of histadine and beta-alanine (Derave et al. 2007). Carnosine could be beneficial to...

Applied Sport Psychology

Anxiety in golf

Anxiety is an unpleasant motivational state (Lundqvist et al. 2011) comprising of cognitive (worrying thoughts) and somatic (oneself perception of physiological arousal) anxiety (Englert and Bertrams 2012), commonly measured by...

Performance

Combining the use of TGfU and Questioning to Improve Decision Making Skills in Soccer Players

The use of Heuristic Practices and specifically Teaching Games for Understanding (TGFU) within learning environments has been an ever increasing methodology applied by teachers and coaches for over 20 years....

Applied Sport Psychology

Trusting the body in Sport: Quietening the Mind

Typically when we see an elite athlete perform at their best we marvel in awe of the skills they display. When interviewed, these athletes will refer to the much sought...

Applied Sport Psychology

Set SMARTER goals to help improve your golf!

As the new season draws ever closer there will be thousands of golfers hitting the range in a quest to have their game in tip top condition for 2015. However...

Applied Sport Psychology

The theory of choking under pressure and strategies to prevent occurrence

Choking under pressure has become a widely researched area within sports psychology and it’s exact definition is still unclear. The term ‘choking under pressure’, or an individuals skill levels being...

Parenting Tips

Maintaining participation in sport

Roy Hodgson’s squad for the forthcoming World Cup remains England’s second youngest squad ever taken to the major tournament, to some extent reflecting the desire for sport in England to...

Applied Sport Psychology

Music in performance

Music Some recent research (Karageorghis et al 2009) has found the following relating to music: Beats per minute (BPM) in music are linked to the desired heart rate BPM in...

Applied Sport Psychology

The pressures of competing

In all of sports and for that matter business we face pressure in our everyday objectives. Meeting a deadline, scoring a goal or a touchdown, or getting to our child’s...

Physiology

The effects of heat on sport performance

Heat stress from the environment can be detrimental to sporting performance, challenging the limits of the human cardiovascular system, temperature regulation and altering body fluid balance (Samuel et al., 2010)....

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