Posts Tagged ‘ self-confidence ’

Sasha DiGiulian Win’s the 2011 SCS National Championships in Sport Climbing Photos by Dominik Walker Editors Note: Goal Setting is commonly referred to as an integral mental skill. However, in our experience there are few coaches and athletes that really know how to do it properly. It is a mental skill that will require...
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Foreward by Dr. Stephen Walker – Editor: “Confidence is a factor that can influence an athlete’s performance in remarkable ways.  It can cause the cocky to make tactical and strategic errors.  The lack of it can mess with the performance of  talented athletes because they fail to channel their focus in the most effective...
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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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“This week Sven Goran Eriksson blamed England’s failure at the World Cup on the absence of a mental trainer or coach to help the team deal with pressure – especially in the penalty shoot-out against Portugal.” -OnRec.com Read the full article. It points out how sports and the business world both make use of...
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