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USA Rugby Partnership

Today we are proud to announce the launch of our brand new partnership with USA Rugby. As part of this exciting partnership we have joined forces with USA Rugby to...

Applied Sport Psychology

Making Challenge Opportunities for Distinguished Success

Imagine a time of which you had to overcome a significant challenge in your life. It could be a career change, personal loss, or even something small like choosing which...

Physiology

Restoring Balance: Yin Yang Training

Whether you're just starting out your fitness journey or an athlete hoping to maximise your results; a well-rounded training programme is essential. Training programmes are important as they structure your...

Coaching

REBT in Sport

Rational beliefs: “It will be pretty tough for me for the next few days, but I will get over it, I will be fine...There are a lot worse things that...

Well Being

How elite athletes can personally maximise their mental health and performance

Everyone aspires to feel fulfilment (5). Through life you will face challenging situations which are demanding and stressful. Every athlete fails, gets injured, experiences negative life events and retires. Some...

Well Being

UK Coaching Partnership

We are proud to announce the launch of our brand new partnership with UK Coaching. Since launching in 2013, supporting and caring for the sport community has been at the...

Well Being

Success over sanity: The expectation for athletes to always be OK

Athletes are considered heroes to many, often representing strength, resilience and mental toughness. Despite these qualities benefiting sport performance, there is a connotation that an athlete must always be OK...

Coaching

Competitive Edge – where do you get yours?

Do you sulk if you lose a pub quiz? Have you ever kept going until you are sick in order to win an eating competition? Or passed out trying to...

Well Being

The ‘Fine Line’ in Perfectionism

How an athlete can turn unhealthy into healthy perfectionism Perfectionism is logical. The highly competitive nature of the sport environment accompanies a variety of stressful circumstances such as, injuries, pressure,...

Mental Health

The Increasing Need for Youth Mental Health Support

Mental Health and the Whole Athlete The mental health epidemic among adolescents has been causing us to really become aware of how to prevent these issues for the future generations....

Mental Health

The development of Identity in Youth Sport

A bit of background on identity… If we start with the wider idea of self-identity, it is a clearly delineated self-definition…comprised of those goals, values and beliefs which the person...

Team Building

Pressure Inurement Training: How to Build Resilience Like Our Olympic Athletes

Every 4 years, athletes from across the globe look to make their dreams of becoming an Olympic champion reality. This often rests on one chance to show the world what...

Mental Health

Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S): Swimmers

Last spring, Swim England hosted its annual Sport Science and Medicine conference with the special topic of the female athlete. In hopes of gaining deeper understanding the female athlete, conference...

Well Being

Taking time for yourself - even when you don’t feel like it

Charlotte shares her thoughts on why studying less may improve your grades - and your mental health. Have you ever had that feeling that you have no time to do...

Applied Sport Psychology

Self-compassion in sport

Sport is full of challenges; pressure and evaluation, injuries, plateaus, sport-life balance conflicts and relationship issues, to name a few. Conventional wisdom holds that the difference between a successful and...

Parenting Tips

What motivational climate do you create for young athletes?

The above image is credited IPTL World https://www.iptlworld.com/ Working in various youth sport environments and with several young athletes on an individual basis brings about numerous challenges in relation to...

Mental Health

Psychological resilience for athletes – a demystification…

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter." - Dan Reeves (Former NFL athlete and head coach) Resilience. It has become a buzzword of modern self-help inside...

Performance

Mindfulness: ‘letting it be’ in a performance driven context

Mindfulness is thought to be a tendency to be present in the moment and to mindfully accept naturally occurring events, emotions and thoughts. As a trait-like variable, some people are...

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