Tag: training
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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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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: Body lunged over Emotional bodily reactions “Pouting” over a missed call or flag thrown…
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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: “I” phrases “We” phrases Use of “should/shouldn’t” And how they talk about their mistakes and achievements By simply having a conversation with an…
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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.…
