Tag: athlete coaching
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Attachment to Sports (Therapy)
In general therapy, there is a concept called “Attachment” that develops from the time you are born and shapes how you view and navigate relationships well into your adulthood and beyond. There are four kinds: Secure, Anxious, Avoidant and Disorganized. They all characterize vastly different ways of viewing both you and others in relationships of…
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******Athlete / Self Help Book Snippet*****
Hello All, I am working though some of the finer details of the book, while beginning to promote my book aimed to helping athletes develop and build awareness of a healthier, more competitive athlete. Within this book, I include a system that I use with clients and will soon begin to use with groups that…
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Parents in Sports – A Role More Important Than You Know For Developing A Young Athlete
As I observe and help individuals and teams, there is one thing that I can bet on: harmful parents making themselves more important than the game being played. More times than not, there is a parent yelling at their kid as if they do not know how to play the game, or coach them from…
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Why Have My Kids Do Mental Training For Sports?
I sat with this question after talking to one of my former college football coaches. I reflected on my time in sports coming up and mapping out the state in which sports are now. The bottom line is more times than not, the sport is more of a job, than a life enriching aspect of…
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P.T.P (Pay The Price) – The Sunday Workouts That Shaped My Mindset Early
A common theme in my upcoming book aimed to give basic tools to athletes and showcase a system a system I use with those that I work with, I found myself reflecting back to Sunday workouts I endured through all of my high school and part of my college football career. This workout lasted for…
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Black and White Thinking: The Ladder
“My goal is to make it to the pros” “The goal is to go Division 1 in college” These are some general answers from athletes when I ask what their goal is, or how they will know they are succeeding in the athlete life. “It means I have failed” “I wasnt good enough” These are…
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Super Bowl Sunday!!!!
For those of you who have tagged along so far, I have somethign fun for you to watch during Sunday’s Super Bowl Game. Lets pay attention to body language of the players and how it changes or effects their game play: Look for all this and more. How does it make the athletes perform any…
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Pessimism Vs. Optimism
This is a sub section of Fixed versus Growth Mindset: Fixed – Pessimistic Growth – Optimistic When talking to athletes, there are key words that should be listened to and those are: By simply having a conversation with an athlete, these among other phrases expose the athlete as being pessimistic or optimistic. This is important……
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Growth Vs. Fixed Mindset
Let’s get to the basics… I mentally walked through all of my conversations at the end of the week and realized a theme of processing style was underlying a lot of them. Furthermore, I stated to pull apart what was beneficial to these people and what was not beneficial in terms of progress and development.…
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The Alter Ego: Thanks to Todd Herman
Got time to read and want to pull a piece of yourself into higher performance and processing standard? I always recommend the Alter Ego Effect by Todd Herman. I used the Alter Ego I developed from the book to become a better Jiu Jitsu practitioner, and also to overcome obstacles mentally and physically. There is…
