Tryouts: What Stops Athletes From Playing Their Best Tryouts or qualify can be an anxious time for many athletes. Whether you are trying out or qualifying for a traveling team, select team, high school team or … Sports Psychology Tip
Playing Aggressive to Keep Your Lead Playing safe rarely works out for athletes. Yet many athletes adopt a cautious mindset when leading late in a competition. For example, a football team has dominated the opposing team … Sports Psychology Tip
Helping Kids Thrive in Sports In this week’s sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn interviews Dr. Kate Lund. Dr. Kate Lund is a licensed clinical psychologist and performance coach with more … Sports Psychology Tip
Staying Confident After A Slow Start Every athlete at some point feels they don’t have “it” today in a competition. You know the feeling, from the onset of a game or meet, you have difficulty getting … Sports Psychology Tip
Find Your Zone Focus in Golf Have you ever played a round of golf where, through the first 14 holes everything was going right then, inexplicably, your game went away and couldn’t make a shot? Your … Sports Psychology Tip
Does Perfectionism Sabotage Athletes? Is being a perfectionist a good thing? Does perfectionism help an athlete strive for more? Many elite athletes call themselves perfectionists. In fact, many Olympians and top-level professionals attribute their success to … Sports Psychology Tip
Trying Harder in Golf Can Backfire After a bad couple of bad holes or poor shots, do you try extra hard to try to make up for this and try to hit perfect shots? This is … Sports Psychology Tip