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Why Athletes Avoid Mental Training
Help Athletes Understand Mental Training Dr. Cohn here from the MGCP certification course where I teach mental coaches how to overcome barrier to their success… What’s the top question I receive from mental coaches? Most everyone wants to know: “How can we help athletes understand the importance of mental training?” The truth is, many athletes,…
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Athletes Who Resist Changing Their Mindset
Helping Athletes Change their Thinking Changing old habits is hard to do for athletes. I agree with this statement especially when it comes to coaching the mental game. Old habits of thinking are hard to change for many athletes. Especially when they are well ingrained over several years (of practice). Athletes stay stuck in old…
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How Sports Parents Hurt Athletes’ Confidence
Sport Parent Communication Can Affect Athletes Last week, I worked on the skill of “proactive confidence” with one of my athletes… Part of this lesson on confidence is to discuss what things can undermine confidence, which I call “confidence killers.” I learned that out of six confidence killers for my athlete, his parents take part…
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How Mental Coaches Can Help Athletes Improve Confidence
What To Do When Sports Parent Hurt Athletes’ Confidence Sports parents can sometimes hurt an athlete’s confidence. I’m sure they don’t do it on purpose, but the net effect is lower confidence for some athletes. Parents will try to motivate kids, but use a negative approach by punishing kids for poor play. For example, Steve…
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Uncovering Underlying Mental Game Challenges
What’s The Real Mental Game Challenge? Do parents, coaches or athletes contact you about their lack of focus or confidence in competition? Often, the presenting problem may not be the underlying problem… Athletes and parents often don’t know the REAL mental game challenge. They just understand a lack of focus, tentative performances, and less than…
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8 Tips For Mental Coaches Who Work With Young Athletes
How Do You Work with Young Athletes? How do you work with younger athletes (ages 8-12) and what tools are helpful when working with them? This is a question from a mental coach who completed my survey last fall. I’m sure you know how challenging it is to work with very young athletes on the…
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Help Athletes Commit to Mental Training
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…
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How To Be A Successful Mental Coach
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…
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Athletes Who Respond Quickly To Sports Psychology
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…
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Athlete’s Mental Aptitude Profile Mental Game Assessment
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…
