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Articles:
Sports Psychology and Mental Training
Myths About
Sports Psychology: 32 Misconceptions About The Mental Game Of Sports
Explained
Sport is a mind game. A place where a small difference in mental
powers often makes a big difference between winning and losing.
The field of sports psychology can help athletes and coaches succeed
faster and achieve higher sports goals than they ever dreamed possible,
but there are many myths and mysteries surrounding this fascinating
field. This article examines 32 sport psychology myths and offers
facts and analysis to shed new light on age-old misinformation and
misunderstandings. 2858 words.
Why Are
Some Athletes Reluctant To Use Sports Psychologists?
Many people are reluctant to go to a physician out of fear. Many
athletes also steer clear of sports psychologists out of fear, and
worse, the social stigma that still exists when asking for mental
help. When an athlete does call a sports psychologist, it is often
when all else has failed, they have an important event coming up,
and they need mental help--fast. Virtually every college, national,
professional and Olympic sports team has a sports psychologist on
staff and countless individual professional athletes work closely
with sports psychology consultants. Learn the 72 reasons athletes
avoid sports psychologists. Discover the many benefits of sports
psychology training, and what to expect in a sports psychology session.
6602 words.
Championship
Superstar Athletes: What Makes Them Tick?
Who is your all-time favorite star athlete? What is inside them
that drives them to the heights? All great athletes have common
attributes that propel them to be excellent. Learn 10 characteristics
common to all superstars and how you can develop them yourself to
grow and achieve more than you ever thought possible. 670 words.
A Mental
Training System Checklist: 50 Mental Game Tools Peak Performers
Use
What mental tools do you have in your peak performer's tool kit
that will propel you to excellence? Peak performers have a wide
array of mental technologies to help them overcome obstacles, prepare
for performances, and review and adjust their mental game. Here's
a list of superior psychological tools you can use to create your
own custom mental training system. 748 words.
Create
A Mindset For Winning At Tennis -- Your Competitive Nature Can Be
One Of Your Biggest Weapons
This article presents competition tips to help you tune your mind
up to compete at your best. Included are examples of behavior to
avoid and questions to ask yourself about your competitive attitude.
870 words.
Mental Success Strategies
The Fear of Failure -
Nothing Succeeds Like Failure: How To Bounce Back From Defeat And
Reach Your Potential
How do you react when you make a mistake, or when you fail? Do you
have a plan for using failure to help you succeed? Top-achieving
performers and achievers have developed powerful mental strategies
for bouncing back from seeming defeats and to catapult themselves
to the next level of success. You can learn those strategies too.
797 words.
The Fear of Success: How
to Overcome It
Is the fear of success real? How could anyone possibly fear such
a wonderfully positive thing as success? As strange as it sounds,
many people do fear success. This fear holds them back from achieving
their goals and dreams. It may sound more reasonable to fear failure,
and not to fear success. What is this all about? Here are some reasons
people fear success. Think these through and you'll begin to resolve
these issues within yourself. 593 words.
10 Mental Toughness
Strategies To Help You Reach Your Fitness, Weight And Health Goals
Fitness and weight changes work best when done from the inside out,
rather than the outside in. What that means is, discover why you
want to change, what the internal resistances are that may hold
you back, and how you will adjust your attitude to bring those changes
about. Here are 10 mental toughness strategies you will find critical
in "making weight". 513 words.
Peak Performance and Mental Toughness
Psyching Up For Greatness:
7 Pre-Event Mental Preparation Strategies.
Do you ever wonder why you perform with excellence one day and can't
get out of your own way the next? The answer might lie in how you
prepare. Here are seven top tips to get you focused and ready to
take on the world for any task or performance. 414 words.
The Twenty Most
Dangerous Myths About Peak Performance
In what arenas do you want to perform better? To improve your performance
abilities, you need to recognize, understand and be able to avoid
the myths surrounding performance. Top performers have seen all
the traps, pitfalls and blind alleys about performing, and have
devised methods to overcome them to be able to sustain high levels
of performance under all adverse conditions. Learn to avoid these
twenty peak performance myths and you will immediately see your
performances soar. 1887 words.
Mental Toughness: The
69 Characteristics Of Mentally Tough Individuals
What does it mean to be mentally tough? Why do top achievers and
performers revere it? The quality of mental toughness means that
an individual has the ability to master the naturally unmanageable
desires of the body and mind and bring them under a discipline to
achieve and sustain demanding goals and performance under pressure.
Mental toughness is something championship athletes possess. This
article describes the 69 characteristics of mental toughness. 578
words.
Mental Toughness
And The Zone
Top performers seem to have the ability to enter the zone at will.
Discover how to build mental and emotional resilience so you can
enter the zone on command. 628 words.
The Sports
Psychology Peak-Performance Model In Business: The New Corporate
Ethic
Corporations today are committed to helping organizations empower
their people with high-performance work styles. People who are identified
as peak performers, even in high stress environments, have mastered
the skills top achievers in all disciplines possess. The secrets
of renewal in a high-stress world are revealed in this cogent work.
1899 words.
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Coaching
What's a Mental
Game Coach?
You're familiar with psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists,
peak performance coaches and sport psychologists, but you may be
wondering, what's a mental game coach? Read this in-depth article
about how to choose the best type of this unique, specialized mind
coach who will help you reach more of your potential in business,
sports and life itself. 2004 words.
Why Hire a Coach?
A tennis coach, golf coach, swim coach, personal coach, business
coach, executive mentor, financial planner, personal trainer, sport
psychology coach. What do all these coaches have in common? Why
work with a coach? A coach won't do the work for you, but here are
ten top tips how a coach can help launch you to the next level.
373 words.
The
Top 15 Characteristics Of Excellent Coaches: Winning The Mental
Game Of Coaching
What makes for an excellent coach? Is it something that can be learned,
or are great coaches born? Of the coaches you've had, what made
them stand out? Read this article to discover Bill Cole's view of
the top 15 characteristics of excellent coaches. 400 words.
Peak
Performance Training For The Coach: Get In The Flow!
How can you as a coach bring the world of peak performance to bear
upon your life and your work? How can you embrace the ethic and
abilities of the peak performer to raise the level of your entire
life's functioning on a daily basis? How can you help your clients
to become their own best coaches? How is your own mental game? Learn
the secrets peak performing coaches use to inspire others. 1226
words.
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Mental Game Quiz: How's
Your Mental Game?
Take This Peak Performance Quiz And Discover
Your MGPQ (Mental Game Power Quotient)™.
Sports Psychology
Quiz: How Well Do You Prepare Mentally?
Take This Quiz To Discover Your Mental Preparation
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Yahoo! Sports Interview
Bill Cole was interviewed about Super Bowl
XLI and sports psychology on a panel including football coaching
legends Bill Walsh and Dick Vermeil.
The
Sport Psych Handbook
By Shane Murphy, editor
This well-written, comprehensive book was
edited by Shane Murphy, a leader in the field of Sports Psychology..
Best
Sport Psychology Books
Recommended by Bill Cole
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