Posts Tagged ‘ athletes ’

by Dr. Stephen Walker – CC-AASP Tiger’s Infamous Fall from Grace Belief Systems Drive Behavior – Both Good & Bad Behavior: The case for therapy in Sport The end of 2009 has brought us some unforgetable moments both in and out of sport.  What will undoubtedly be remembered as a tough year for everyone...
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Brenda Epstein and Jess Knudson’s award winning sports talk show is called “Beyond the Balls” Listen as they interview our own Dr. Stephen Walker Jess and Bren are pretty much icons in Ft. Collins Colorado.  They have one of the funniest, most compelling sports talk shows on the radio today.  Although really quite saavy,...
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We’ve all seen athletes performing ritual movements before competition and have heard stories about the baseball player with his lucky socks or the hockey player with his favorite stick. In fact, in pro sports, superstition and ritual is widespread and considered normal. To the onlooker, it may seem silly and strange, but if you...
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The following paragraphs come from an article on Coach Dave Rogers. According to the Journal of Applied Sports Psychology, 2002, mental toughness is having the natural or developed psychological edge that enables you to: Cope – generally cope better than your opponents with the many demands such as training, lifestyle and head to head...
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Jeffrey Bond, former head of the Sport Psychology Department at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, has coined a term for the reckless behavior by many professional athletes: pedestal syndrome. In an issue of The Sporting Mind, Bond describes pedestal syndrome in detail. His article starts on page 6 of this PDF. In...
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At 6′ 2″, 240 pounds, Dan Cox is certainly on the larger end of the triathlete scale. It’s just hard to imagine upon meeting him that less than five years ago he tipped the scales at a very non athletic 400+ pounds. Cox has always been an athlete. Born and raised in the “two...
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