Phases of Mental Coaching with Athletes
As a mental game coach, your success depends on how well your athletes can apply what you teach them. In this video, I discuss the steps I take from awareness to application.
My #1 challenge as a mental coach is helping my athletes apply what they learn to practice and competition. Athletes can usually understand the concepts of refocusing, proactive self-confidence, and preshot routines.
However, I find a huge divide between the conceptual strategies in sports psychology and athletes’ ability to act on it or apply to competition.
Watch the video below to find out how to help your athletes get the most from mental training…
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Mental Coach Assessment System
If you help athletes improve their mental game and want to be more effective with helping them build mental toughness, but don’t have a proven system for identifying and assessing your athletes’ mental game, I can help you…
I view this assessment as a way to “interview” athletes before they come in for coaching–and to improve organization and speed up the coaching process. Today, I call it the Athlete’s Mental Aptitude Profile or AMAP for short. Now you too can learn how to use the AMAP Assessment system with your athletes…
The AMAP System teaches you how to easily identify your athletes’ mental game challenges, what mental game issues to look for when reading the AMAP, and how to do a summary of the AMAP. In addition, you’ll also get follow up questions to ask and how learn about how to drill down on relevant topics.