Sports psychology certification articles for mental performance coaches and graduates of the MGCP certification program.
Help Athletes Be Successful with Mental Training Do your athletes feel excited to start mental training only to lose interest quickly when they don’t see immediate results in their performance? Unfortunately, athletes often want the quick fix with mental training and may lose interest when results don’t come quickly. How to help your athletes commit to mental training is the …
Four Phases Of Mental Training Starting a career as a mental coach, the first golfer I worked with said the following about the problems with improving his mental game: “When you have a problem with the swing, I can go the range and work on drills to improve my swing. But if I have a problem with my mental game, …
Athletes Who Learn Mental Skills Quickly One good problem to have as a mental coach is when your athletes improve quickly with mental coaching… Why would this be a problem? First, quick story…. I just started working with a high school aged club volleyball player who was focusing on all the wrong things, such as worrying about her teammates, coach, …
How The Assessment System Helps Mental Coaches I’ve received several questions about the AMAP assessment program for mental coaches… Today, I’d like to answer a few questions. Here they are: 1. “I only work with basketball players and I see there are numerous topics in the AMAP that are not about basketball. Can I use the AMAP for basketball players?” …
Help Athletes Stick To Mental Coaching How do you help athletes adhere to mental training so they don’t give up if they do not see immediate results? Athletes and parents often want the quick fix with mental training. They want you to solve slumps and low confidence in one session. But they don’t really understand the process… Unfortunately, they might …
Mental Toughness Tests for Teams What accommodations do you have to make to do team mental game assessments? This is a common question I receive during the MGCP sessions. When working with teams, you have to approach mental game assessments differently compared to working with a single athlete. We use the AMAP Assessment System for working with individual athletes. In …