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Applied Sport Psychology

Emotional thermometer – Controlling competition anxiety

Competition anxiety will affect all of us, although the extent to which it strikes varies from athlete to athlete. We are often told “it’s good to be a bit nervous”...

Applied Sport Psychology

Imagery: Utilising the Minds Eye

Imagery and visualisation are the most widely used psychological skill used by athletes. Despite that, without informed psychological skills training (PST), athletes can often fall into negative imagery coping mechanisms....

Applied Sport Psychology

Our greatest enemy… and our biggest ally?

Our greatest enemy… and our biggest ally? I recently tweeted a riddle a few days ago. Unfortunately nobody had the answer. The riddle goes like this “I will be your...

Applied Sport Psychology

Self-compassion: More adaptive than self-esteem in sport & exercise?

High self-esteem is a great thing to have, right? In sport and exercise, we think of self-esteem as vital in helping to maintain performance levels, as well as keeping up...

Applied Sport Psychology

Anticipation skill in sport

Why do expert athletes often appear to have ‘all the time in the world’ to respond in highly time constrained sports, while novices appear challenged by rapid speed of play?...

Nutrition

James Collins: How do you help motivate athletes to stay to their diet?

Physiology

Tony Strudwick: How can sport scientists and sport psychologists work together?

Physiology

Tony Strudwick: Should there be more psychological testing in elite football?

Applied Sport Psychology

The importance of imagery in sport

Imagery has many uses not just in sport, but pretty much any occupation where motor (learnt) skills need to be performed to a high standard (such as surgery), as well as...

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...

Applied Sport Psychology

Self talk

Everyone has an inner voice which can be either helpful or unhelpful – the angel on one shoulder (helpful) and the devil on the other (unhelpful). It is vital to remember that...

Applied Sport Psychology

Competitive Sport: Are You motivated to win or just to avoid failure?

There are many types of motivation in sport all of which can play a major role in how we handle the pressures and stresses of competition. One theory of motivation...

Applied Sport Psychology

How to effectively reflect on performance

Reflection on performance plays an important role in athletic development and adherence to training programmes. Therefore our reflection needs to be accurate and informative for athletes, coaches and sport psychologists. Franks...

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

Increasing internal self-awareness to improve performance

Creating and developing an internal self-awareness within athletes is, for me, the most important job a sport psychologist has within applied work, and is something I care a great deal...

Applied Sport Psychology

Creating Your Own Culture of Excellence

Either as an athlete, coach or business we all aspire to be successful. We want to be noted in the same breath as excellence. Even as an individual trying to...

Applied Sport Psychology

Football Referees: Performers in their own right

The majority of sport aficionados were sad to hear the announcement of Sir Alex Ferguson, one of the most successful football managers of all time. However, there may have been...

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