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I love the Sunday NY Times. It contains some good information in general but it usually (I am sure unintentionally) has at least one interesting perspective on the mental aspects of sports, [...]

  Imagine yourself before competition Make it as real and vivid as possible. If you typically have a pre-competition routine, imagine yourself following the steps of that routine up to the [...]

Athletes and sports psychologists use the mental toughness a lot but what does it mean? Generally when I work with athletes I ask them what that means versus defining it for them because [...]

It is estimated that 3 to 17 million adults and children are injured each year in the United States in sport, exercise, and recreational settings. This means that you might be an injured athlete [...]

Breathing happens voluntarily everyday. There are many benefits for using it to move through stressful situations, exhausting workouts and anxiety provoking performances. Breathing helps calm [...]

Here is one way to gauge whether or not you need to put energy into thinking about a situation: do you have control of/in/over the situation. This is particularly helpful in negative situations [...]

If you want to PR in Boston here are some things to think about. I’ve been working with a couple of elite Boston female runners and these are things we’ve been working on and [...]

A routine is not necessarily something that begins right before practice, competition or a workout. It’s something that you want to get in the habit of thinking about the day or night before. A [...]

I am now working with a lot of Olympic and professional athletes and I am very passionate about wanting to help support their performance endeavors. Although I am enamored by athletes of [...]

Neurotic used to be a psychological diagnosis however  now researchers for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) have taken it out and have decided that it is a common term for more [...]