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- Bob Palmer’s five rules for visualizing success in your sport
- Golf holes the size of dinner plates—training your mind to properly set the table for the successful Zone shot
- Preventing the death spiral in sport: Anticipating and fixing game-day problems
- Mirror neurons and learning in sport— How to turn them on!
- In support of competition in sport: Thoughts from a karate dojo
Tag Archives: strategies for sport
Bob Palmer’s five rules for visualizing success in your sport
There are five key rules of visualization that are a must if you want to make it effective. 1) You must understand what the Zone is and you must be able to get into it in your visualization. 2) You … Continue reading
Golf holes the size of dinner plates—training your mind to properly set the table for the successful Zone shot
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Some days we are just so darn brilliant in our games. Why? Who knows? We change putters. … Continue reading
Brilliant Coaches: They know how to push your buttons
As the National Hockey League prepares for the 2014-15 season, teams are filling gaps in positions and skill sets, so that in six months (and 82 games) of player trades, injuries, fatigue, drama of contracts, personality clashes, media and fan … Continue reading
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Stopped having fun in your sport? Here’s a high performance tip for getting your passion back
The key (and often unsaid) reason athletes seek out sport mental training from high performance trainers like me is fun — they’ve stopped having it. Whether it is because of inconsistency, losing, injuries, reduced playing time or on-going intimidation, athletes … Continue reading
How to Become an Emotional Coach in Your Child’s Sport
In a previous blog I wrote on the topic of coaches being the emotional ballast for their athletes and I’m now tackling another a key players in the process—parents. I’m very supportive of parents of young athletes because I am … Continue reading
