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Nutrition

James Collins: How important is the right diet for a persons mind?

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)....

Performance

How Important Is an Understanding of Decision Making to a Sport Psychologist Interested In Using it in Their Work With Athletes?

Decision making in sport has been a well investigated topic area in Sport Psychology, and it is one that is constantly developing and becoming more important in the world of sport...

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...

Applied Sport Psychology

Effective sport psychologists – who are they?

In addition to the standards and competencies that sport psychologists must demonstrate to achieve accreditation with the relevant governing bodies, effective sport psychologists have been well-documented within the literature as...

Applied Sport Psychology

Training to prevent choking

Within elite sport it can be a huge challenge to prepare not only physically but psychologically for the spike in pressure which can be encountered during competition. The negative phenomena...

Applied Sport Psychology

Hierarchy of needs

I am a great fan of humanism (i.e. belief in humanity) and one thing that has cropped up in my Psychologist training is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Broken down into five levels, ranging from...

Applied Sport Psychology

Interventions to prevent choking in ping pong

Various intervention techniques may reduce choking. Implicit learning strategies, such as analogy learning, have been found effective in table tennis44. This intervention provides support for EMT by showing that reductions in...

Applied Sport Psychology

Ping Pong Panic: Explicit monitoring theory (EMT) and table tennis

The London Olympics of 2012 showcased a buffet of sporting heroes, but the Games also proved a ‘choking’ minefield for many athletes. Erratic shooting and overambitious passes in the Women’s...

Applied Sport Psychology

Stamina boosting – The edge

Much of what holds you back from reaching a fitness, sporting or weight loss goal is in your mind. All too commonly we sabotage ourselves with our own limitations. Sport...

Applied Sport Psychology

Mental Toughness

Mental toughness is more than just mental. It's also: Physical Emotional In order to be mentally tough you: Must have talent Be in peak physical condition Your technical skills have to...

Applied Sport Psychology

A Guide to Controlling Nerves

It is often the case that we suffer from anxiety. Anxiety can be acute (short-term) or chronic (long-term). Anxiety can also be related to pre-match nerves or develops over time due to...

Applied Sport Psychology

How to develop an effective pre performance routine

This article will run from how to develop a pre performance routine, via four questions, which will help you to develop your own routine. What is a pre performance routine?...

Applied Sport Psychology

Overcoming fear of failure and risk taking

All athletes experience fear or anxiety at some point in their sporting career, but how does the fear of failure effect their actual performance? Fear of failure can have such...

Applied Sport Psychology

Imagery in sport: Elite athlete examples and the PETTLEP model

Imagery has been described as “an experience that mimics real experience, and involves using a combination of different sensory modalities in the absence of actual perception” (Cumming & Ramsey, 2009,...

Applied Sport Psychology

Pressure of staying at the top

For many years athletes dedicate themselves to the path of elitism within their respective sport. Hours upon hours of practice, military like regimes combined with mental preparation and focus assist...

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