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Lost Time from Injury – Attitude for Recovery, Attitude for Life

January 25, 2013July 28, 2013 Stephen Walker, PhD 1 Comment attitude, Coping With Injury, emotions, grief, injury, Loss Grief, Louis Swartzberg, Major Depressive Disorder, recovery, Rehab Injury, serious-injury, Sufferings

by Dr. Stephen Walker – Editor-in-Chief – Podium Sports Journal No one ever wants to go there. No one wants

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"Parents' Anger on the Soccer Field – and mitigating factors"

April 26, 2009 Stephen Walker, PhD 1 Comment coach, coaching, competition, emotions, jay goldstein, managing anger, parent's emotions, parental guidelines for youth sports, parenting, parenting youth sport athletes, research, sideline rage, sport-psychology, sports administration, sports-psychology

Concerns regarding expression of anger directed toward officials, coaches, teammates and even their own child are examined and a discussion of ‘sideline rage’ is featured.

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The Thought Pattern Interrupt – Golf

February 12, 2008 Stephen Walker, PhD 1 Comment anger, anxiety, attractor-field, Brain-Tough-Skill, closed-thought-loop, cognitive-reframe, concentration, confusion, disappointment, disruptive-thought-patterns, dr.-stephen-walker, emotions, focus, goal-outcome, golf, Jack, Jack-Nicklaus, mental-conditioning, mental-skills, mood, Nicklaus, performance, self-doubt, thought-pattern-interrupt

By Dr. Stephen Walker – CC-AASP “The inability to forget is infinitely more devastating than the inability to remember.” –

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Optimal Focus for Racing

September 30, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 1 Comment Armstrong, coach, coaching, competition, concentration, counseling, dealing-with-distractions, emotions, exercise-psychology, external-factors, focus, health-psychology, internal-factors, Lance, Lance-Armstrong, mental-conditioning, mental-game, mental-skills, mental-technique, mental-tools, mental-toughness, mental-training, mind, negative-thoughts, noise, over, past-performances, peak-performance, performance, 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, time, weather

The ability to focus allows you to maintain concentration over a period of time and tune-in to what you need

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Top Ten Mental Errors

August 30, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments distracted, emotions, errors, failing-to-prepare, fencing, focus, list, mental, over-training, pre-performance, routine, unreal-expecations

1. Not being able to Concentrate. Focus is a huge part of fencing. Given that fencing isn’t the only thing

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The Nine Mental Skills of a Successful Athlete

February 17, 2007June 5, 2011 Dr. Jack Lesyk 10 Comments athlete, attitude, concentration, dr jack lesyk, emotions, goals, mental-skills, mental-skills-training, performance-pyramid, positive, self-motivation, self-talk, setting, success

During the past twenty-five years, I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of athletes from over thirty different