Mental Moment-Competitive Situation Imagery
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve developed a new tactic for helping my athletes become more aware of cognitive and somatic ‘feelings’. It is called the ‘timeout’. What is it The timeout is a [...]