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Physiology

The role of sexual activity on sleep and performance in competitive athletes

Previous articles for Sport in Mind have focused on athlete recovery and the importance of the appropriate quality and quantity of sleep. Sleep has been outlined as being essential for...

Physiology

The impact of mental fatigue on pacing strategies

An inability to be able to pace yourself can be deleterious to one’s performance, as an individual must be able to carefully select the appropriate distribution of efforts as to...

Applied Sport Psychology

Performance Yoga: How can yoga help athletic performance?

As a Yoga Teacher, Trainee Sport Psychologist, and English Champion of Olympic Weightlifting, I know how yoga can help athletes to maximise their physical and psychological potential and improve their...

Applied Sport Psychology

Developing intrinsic motivation....The role of the coach

It is widely acknowledged that the most successful performers across varying sporting paradigms are those that have invested a significant amount of time acquiring the essential skills of their trade...

Applied Sport Psychology

Embodied cognition: Matter over mind

If you were to ask a golfer coming off the 18th green following their best round of golf how they perceived the course, they might describe the fairways and greens...

Applied Sport Psychology

How a Coach’s Pedagogical Philosophy Impacts the Intrinsic Motivation of Athletes

Intrinsic motivation can be defined as “engaging in an activity for itself and for the pleasure and satisfaction derived from participation” (Vallerand, 2004). The coach’s ability to intrinsically motivate players...

Applied Sport Psychology

The short-term effects of working hard

Top athletes are made rather than born. Through hard work, practicing and learning they have become the quality players we know now. Working hard might even define the limit of your...

Physiology

Monitoring of recovery strategies for elite athletes

In my previous two articles on TheSportinmind, adequate rest (napping) and sufficient sleep are discussed as two of the most commonly reported methods for managing fatigue and enhancing recovery (Hausswirth...

Applied Sport Psychology

Achieving optimal concentration

Further to my last article on “attention” I decided to come back to the more specific aspect of concentration. Despite it being one of the more obvious mental skills that...

Applied Sport Psychology

Self awareness

High performance athletes spend a crucial amount of time into skill development, physical conditioning, and nutrition. However at the high performance stage there is a thin line between winning and...

Applied Sport Psychology

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...

Injuries

Optimising performance and injury prevention by sleep monitoring in adolescent athletes

Optimal performance requires the balance of stress and recovery in response weekly and annual periodised training. Athletes need sufficient physical stress to maximise positive adaptations in terms of physical qualities...

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...

Applied Sport Psychology

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...

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