Injury - The mental side
Being sidelined affects the mind just as much as the injured body part
It’s truly a marvel of modern science that we have so many different ways to reduce injuries, minimize their effect, speed up recovery, rehabilitate after trauma and generally allow an athlete to compete with injuries...
Mental Toughness issue #4: Pressure
The thing about athletics is this: Everyone is watching. Whether you play professionally and on television or in your local golf tournament. Whether there are 15,000 people in the stands or 5, you are performing in public. This can add a great deal of pressure to a situation. No one really wants...
Mental Toughness issue #2: Motivation
Hopefully most of your athletes are highly motivated individuals. They’ve worked hard to get where they are and are willing to do the work to continue to be successful. You might have to occasionally help motivate them but for the most part, they work pretty hard. This is probably due to...
Don't just TALK about the mental game, BE about it
"Be mentally tough. Concentrate. You aren’t focusing. Get your mind right."
Everyone loves to TALK about mental game issues. Coaches, athletes, fans, media. Everyone wants to comment about the mental game aspects that are necessary for peak performance. But very few people actually know how...
Mental Toughness issue #3: Perfectionism
Many athletes want to be perfect. They want every shot to go in, every pitch to be a hit, every serve to be an ace. Letting go of being perfect is difficult for them to do. They think it means failure, they think it means a slippery slope of eventually being mediocre.
Sure we want our athletes to...
Culture change
Sometimes what a program really needs is a total and complete culture change. Whether you are a new coaching staff trying to shift the mindset of your whole program, your whole athletic department, your whole university or you've been frustrated with a team that just accepts being mediocre and...
Mental toughness issue: #1. Playing well in practice but not in games
Taylor was a top Division 1 basketball player. She was unbelievably talented but going into her senior season, she just didn’t feel like she had ever learned to play her best in games.
In practice: She was an All-American.
In open gym: She dominated. It was driving her and her...
LINDSEY WILSON
As the Co-Founder and product guru for Positive Performance, Lindsey works with athletes and coaches to unlock player and team potential through mental performance training.
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