Archive for May, 2007

Here’s an article by Neil Davidson that appeared in The Brooks Bulletin. It involves the UFC fights and how obvious mental toughness can be. Here’s a quote from the article by UFC president Dana White: “This kid was so nervous to fight Matt Serra, it was blowing my mind. I think that Georges St....
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Here’s an article by Marvin Zauderer that appeared in Pez Cycling News on managing emotions.
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Here’s Brock’s view on the mental training that showed itself in the 2005 basketball championships. “Both opening games of the Eastern and Western Conference Finals demonstrated the importance of mental training. I’m disinclined to blindly use the term “experience” but feel that a large component of the differences between the respective winners and losers...
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Here’s a blog entry in The Journal of Sports Media on The Sport Psychology Movie Database. Although the movie listings, categories and themes associated within the list are based on someone other than the director’s opinions, it’s pretty interesting. Worth a look.
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The following is from Joanna Zeiger’s blog. This is the last part of an entry where she describes her biggest disappointments. She has the great attitude you’d expect from an athlete of her calibre. “Most of the big disappointments in my career involved races in which I was carried off the course or driven...
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Here’s a blog entry on team leadership in cycling.
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In late March, Simply Stu interviewed our own Dr Walker on training the mind for triathlons. You can get the podcast of that interview here.
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Here’s an interesting article on sports hypnosis that I found in The American Chronicle.
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