Sports Confidence Buster #2 Despite having great practices and high levels of confidence from practice, why do athletes doubt themselves in competition? Negative self-labels and doubts about your performances are self-fulfilling prophecies and the only way to overcome these doubts is to change your thinking–quickly. In this sports psychology video for athletes, I discuss how to overcome self-doubt … Sport Psychology Article…
Sports Confidence Buster #1 When you achieve greater success in sports, confidence improves. But so can your expectations. So this is both good and bad. When you expect more from your performance, you can get upset easier. It can also undermine your confidence when you fail to reach your expectations. This week, I discuss how to overcome harmful … Sport Psychology Article…
Athletes Who Are Easily Frustrated In this podcast of Mental Training Sessions with Doc, you learn why perfectionist athletes become easily frustrated. One of the characteristics of perfectionists is that they get upset very quickly when they make mistakes. These athletes lose emotional control quickly and become derailed mentally when they are not performing up to their standards … Sport Psychology Article…
Athletes Who Have Fragile Confidence Do you ever wonder why self-confidence is so fragile or fleeting for some athletes, actually many athletes? This week and beyond I answer this question in my new video series… Today we’re introducing a new mental training video series on the top 10 confidence busters for athletes. Here they are: In each episode, … Sport Psychology Article…
How to Return to Play After a Golf Injury Have you recently sustained an injury and now don’t know how it’s going to affect your golf game? In this week’s golf psychology session, mental game of golf expert and author of The Mental Game of Golf, Dr. Cohn, responds to a question from Dean who had this to … Sport Psychology Article…
Perfectionist Athletes and Fragile Confidence One of the characteristics of perfectionists is that they tend to have more confidence in practice than they do in competition. Fragile confidence means that athletes’ confidence goes up-and-down rapidly depending on how they are performing in the moment. And this ties into athletes’ high expectations… Learn how to get off the confidence roller coaster … Sport Psychology Article…