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"Playing Football With A Square Ball"

My motive for writing this piece is to plant a seed, to kick start a generation of new ideas and join the dots in a sector of professional sport that...

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Emotional Intelligence: Role in Sports Performance

Mayer and Salovey (1997:5) defined Emotional Intelligence (EI) as “the ability to perceive emotions, to assess and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge,...

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Goal Setting in Sport

THEORY: Goal setting is a motivational tool to support and enhance performance. As humans we focus too much on outcome goals. Although outcome goals are important, performers should also consider...

Performance

Do What Matters: Values and Committed Action in Football

As discussed in my previous article (ACT on the Gridiron: A New Approach to Sport Performance Enhancement in Football), my next few posts will be dedicated to illustrating the six...

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Pressure for athletes competing at Ironman World Championships

The World Ironman Championships in Kona, Hawaii is the biggest stage in world Triathlon, with most athletes racing between 8 to 17 hours. This competition is one of the most pressured...

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Mental Toughness in Sport

THEORY: Mental toughness is important and integral for successful outcomes. Key characteristics of mental toughness relate to consistency, desire, focus, overcoming setbacks, resilience and concentration. PRACTICE: Becoming mentally tough does...

Performance

Focus in Sport

THEORY: Focus is an essential component to sporting success. Focus allows performers to attend to the cues in hand and concentrate on tasks to achieve success. The ability to focus...

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Who is sport psychology for?

I have a confession to make - I'm not an elite sportsman and I probably never will be. Maybe you are the same. After all, 'elite' status is reserved for...

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Emotional Intelligence: Role in Coaching

Coaching is far more than just teaching sports skills to individuals and teams. It is also about inspiring, giving confidence and motivating others by building quality relationships. You need to...

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Positive Self-Belief in Sport

THEORY: Positive self-belief is an internal aspect of your psychological make-up. When you are looking at achieving success and reaching your goals remaining positive is important. Self-belief must come from...

Team Building

Personal-Disclosure Mutual-Sharing (PDMS) and group functioning in sport

Personal-Disclosure Mutual-Sharing (PDMS) is an intervention whereby an individual consciously shares an issue or situation, with a group they belong to (i.e., sports team/peers), in attempt to find resolution through interpersonal...

Exercise Psychology

Maintaining Motivation for Exercise: New Year, New You?

Now 2016 is fully upon us, many of us will have noticed an increase in the amount of people in your local gym. A diverse range of individuals, some of...

Performance

Self-Confidence in Sport

THEORY: Self-confidence is your ability to undertake tasks. It is your ability to understand that you can achieve any number of goals. Self-confident people enjoy the tasks they undertake and...

Performance

The Growth Mindset - not just for sports stars

For those of us who take an interest in what's going on in the world of sport and performance psychology, the concepts of growth and fixed mindsets will be nothing new....

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Self-regulation - a cognitive skill to monitor progress?

Self-regulation - a cognitive skill to monitor progress? According to Richards (2011), “self-regulation refers to the process in which individuals monitor, manage, and control their behaviours, thoughts, emotions, and interactions...

Applied Sport Psychology

The Theory of Challenge and Threat States in Athletes (TCTSA): Applying the model with athletes through imagery scripting.

The Theory of Challenge and Threat States in Athletes (TCTSA) provides a framework for understanding how athletes react psycho-physiologically within competitive situations (Jones, Meijen, McCarthy & Sheffield 2009). To expand,...

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Choking: The Case of Jana Novotna: “One of the most famous collapses in sport”

In 1993, Jana Novotna played Steffi Graf in the 1993 Wimbledon women’s tennis final. Novotna was in a strong position; she led the match 6-7, 6-4, and had a game...

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Obesity, Anxiety and Depression – an Exploding Epidemic

Obesity is an epidemic that will have far reaching implications for the health of our nation. The statistics are frightening. Studies have shown that obesity has quadrupled in last 30 years....

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