Using Pressure to Succeed in Sports: Dr. Robert Kriegel

In this week’s sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn interviews Dr. Robert Kriegel about his approach to mental coaching. This podcast is a special preview of one of 14 interviews with nationally recognized top sports psychologists. In this excerpt, Dr. Kriegel talks about pressure and how athletes can use this pressure. He also talks about how he got into sports psychology.

Dr. Robert Kriegel is a New York Times best-selling author, a pioneer in sports psychology and also an Olympic and professional athlete coach. Dr. Robert Kriegel has coached Olympic and pro athletes and helped to found one of the first institutes of sports psychology in the country. He is the author of a a New York Times bestseller, “Inner Skiing”. The New York Times said his work “spurred a revolution in performance practices.” He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Inner Skiing and has done color commentary for the US Pro Ski Tour on ESPN.

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