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You arrive at your Marathon. Why is it that some people are jogging, some are in their own world listening to music and seemingly pondering something, and others, you overhear, are stating how [...]

As children we reveal considerable imagery capabilities but are quickly taught to neglect this form of thinking so that we can develop our analytic and language capabilities. Fortunately, [...]

Certain mental skills seem to go untouched for awhile. One of them being imagery. I love imagery because it fulfills so many purposes but for me it’s usually one of the last skills I teach [...]

Confidence is such a dynamic social cognitive construct. In much of the reading I’ve done on confidence it talks about successful athletes having it and less successful athletes not having [...]

One of the top challenges for golfers and tennis players that has a HUGE negative impact on performance is negative self talk. Negative self talk is a form of internal distraction and includes [...]

Make mental training an implicit part of your program. Mental training if used has always been in addition to physical training; an explicit part of being an athlete or an exerciser. In my work I [...]