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Performance Psychology
Sports Psychology: Integrating Mental Skills Training in Effective Coaching.
We all agree that developing mental skills is an essential part of being a successful athlete.
The ability to perform under pressure, the capacity to remain confident and resilient when competition conditions get tough, the skill to be able to relax and stay focused when feeling pain and fatigue in competition, concentration, visualization……coaches and athletes are unanimous that spending time developing mental skills is time well spent.
However, figuring out the best way to develop mental skills – particularly mental skills which can directly enhance the competition performance of athletes is another matter.
We all think working with a Sports Psychologist is a good idea but Sports Psychologists are like life partners……we know that having one is probably a good idea but it is next to impossible to find a good one. Read more
January 24, 2010 | 6 Comments
Tags: Coach education, Coaching, High Performance, Performance Science, sport, Training, UCNISS
The Psychology of Winning: How to Develop a Winning Attitude in High Performance Sport
World Cup Final Day.
The team gathers in the locker room.
This is an intense, high pressure environment that few experience and even fewer survive.
A former player – one of the nation’s greatest – walks into the change room. There is a respectful hush as he starts to speak.
He talks about pride.
He talks about spirit.
He talks about commitment – about attitude.
He talks about winning - the history of the nation at the world cup.
With tears in his eyes he begins to recite the names of the great players who have gone before.
He asks players to stand and link arms and to join him in the national anthem.
He has done a great motivational talk.
This is the perception many people have about the word motivation as it applies to high performance sport: a one off emotion charged lecture from a professional speaker or motivator or sports psychologist. Read more
April 7, 2009 | Comments Off
Tags: AFL, American Football, Athletics, Baseball, Basketball, Coaching, Cricket, Cycling, Diving, Football, Gymnastics, Hockey, Netball, Performance Science, Rugby, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field, Training, Triathlon
