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Self-Handicapping: Overcoming “Yourself” in Competition

August 25, 2011August 25, 2011 Larry Lauer 2 Comments arousal, competition, confidence, dr larry lauer, expectations, focus, mental-toughness, preparation, routines, self-handicapping, self-talk

By Larry Lauer, PhD, CC-AASP Michigan Youth Sports Institute Named one of the NSAPE Top 100 coaching educators of 2007

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Learn From Everything: Take a Step Into Your Discomfort Zone

March 25, 2011April 15, 2011 Simon Hartley MSc 4 Comments aining, athlete development, confidence, long-term focus, performance reviews, purpose in training, simon hartley, working outside the comfort zone

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to

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Athletes' Choices Can Help or Hinder the Development of Confidence

January 9, 2010 Conrad Woolsey PhD 1 Comment anxiety, athletic-performance, Building Confidence, coach, coaching, Coaching Mental Excellence, competition, confidence, Conrad Woolsey, D.L. Cook, dr.-stephen-walker, focus, goal-setting, imagery, mental-conditioning, mental-skills, mental-toughness, peak-performance, R. T. McGuire, racing, Ralph Vernacchia, self-confidence, self-talk, sport-performance, sport-psychology-articles, sports-performance, sports-psychology, sports-psychology-articles, sports-psychology-training, visualization

Foreward by Dr. Stephen Walker – Editor: “Confidence is a factor that can influence an athlete’s performance in remarkable ways.

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The Best of Coaches – Bring out the Best in their Teams

March 15, 2009 Stephen Walker, PhD 8 Comments chris charmicael, coaching, Coaching-Education, confidence, great coaching, john-wooden, Lance-Armstrong, ncaa basketball tournament, positive-coaching, process-goals, tour-de-france

Here Comes March Madness! The Mens and Womens NCAA Basketball Tournament Today, the brackets for the NCAA Basketball Tournament are

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Offensive And Defensive Mental Skills

August 16, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments coach, coaching, comfort, competition, confidence, controlling-anxiety, counseling, exercise-psychology, frustration, health-psychology, mental-conditioning, mental-game, mental-skills, mental-technique, mental-tools, mental-toughness, mental-training, mind, peak-performance, performance, risk, self-talk, sport-performance, sport-psychologist, sport-psychology, sport-psychology-articles, sport-psychology-techniques, sport-psychology-training, sports-performance, sports-psychologist, sports-psychology, sports-psychology-articles, sports-psychology-techniques, sports-psychology-training, sports-skills, visualization

“Offensive skills let an athlete dominate a competition. Offensive physical skills might include the terrific top-end speed of 400-meter runner

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The Confidence Man – Mariano Rivera

July 30, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments article, baseball, best, coach, coaching, competition, composure, confidence, hitter-calm, Mariano, mental-skills, mental-strength, mental-toughness, pitcher, relief, Rivera, sport-psychology, sports-psychology, success, time

“By the time Rivera reached the mound, he had shed all of the elements of humanity inconvenient to his job.

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Achieving IPS – The Ideal Psychic State

July 1, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments adaptation, coach, coaching, competition, confidence, counseling, exercise-psychology, health-psychology, imagery, mental-conditioning, mental-game, mental-imagery, mental-rehearsal, mental-skills, mental-technique, mental-tools, mental-toughness, mental-training, mind, peak-performance, performance, rationalization, sport-performance, sport-psychologist, sport-psychology, sport-psychology-articles, sport-psychology-techniques, sport-psychology-training, sports-performance, sports-psychologist, sports-psychology, sports-psychology-articles, sports-psychology-techniques, sports-psychology-training, sports-skills, visualization

“Mental conditioning and visualization for a game can be divided into two different parts: the day before the game and

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The Story of Dan Cox

March 20, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 1 Comment athletes, coach, coaching, compete-again, competition, confidence, counseling, Dan-Cox, diet, ex-football-player, exercise-psychology, gastic-bypass, happy, health, health-psychology, healthy, lease on life, mental-conditioning, mental-game, mental-skills, mental-technique, mental-tools, mental-toughness, mental-training, mind, motivation, multisport, overcome, overweight, peak-performance, performance, sport-performance, sport-psychologist, sport-psychology, sport-psychology-articles, sport-psychology-techniques, sport-psychology-training, sports-performance, sports-psychologist, sports-psychology, sports-psychology-articles, sports-psychology-techniques, sports-psychology-training, sports-skills, T.J.-Cesarz, triathlete, triathlon, weight management, weight-loss

At 6′ 2″, 240 pounds, Dan Cox is certainly on the larger end of the triathlete scale. It’s just hard

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Joe Friel Interview

January 5, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments biking, coach, coaching, competition, confidence, counseling, cycling, cyclist, exercise-psychology, focus, habits, health-psychology, interview, Joe-Friel, mental-conditioning, mental-game, mental-skills, mental-technique, mental-tools, mental-toughness, mental-training, mind, motivation, pain, peak-performance, performance, professional-road-cycling-champion, racing, sport-performance, sport-psychologist, sport-psychology, sport-psychology-articles, sport-psychology-techniques, sport-psychology-training, sports-performance, sports-psychologist, sports-psychology, sports-psychology-articles, sports-psychology-techniques, sports-psychology-training, sports-skills, suffering, thought, training, visualization

Joe Friel has trained highly successful endurance athletes since 1980. His clients range from amateur and professional road cyclists to