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Research on Pre-shot Routines Used by PGA Professionals on Tour

August 7, 2009 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments anxiety, coaching, competition, concentration, dr. daniel czech, dr.-stephen-walker, focus, georgia southern university, goal-setting, golf, imagery, mental-conditioning, mental-skills, mental-tools, performance, pre-shot routines, research, research study, self-talk, sport-psychology-techniques, sports-psychology-techniques, sports-skills, visualization

Podium’s Podcast of the Week – an Interview with Dr. Daniel Czech – Georgia Southern University by Stephen E Walker,

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Revisiting Research on the Experience of ‘Suffering’ in Cycling

July 10, 2009October 23, 2011 Stephen Walker, PhD 6 Comments coaching, concentration, coping strategies, counseling, cycling, exercise-psychology, exertion pain, habituation, health-psychology, imagery, injury pain, mental-conditioning, mental-skills, mental-toughness, mental-training, methods for managing pain, negative emotional effects of injury related pain, pain in cycling, performance, performance and pain, phil moore, positive pain, positive responses to exertion pain, qualitative research, racing, reward and punishment, social science in sport, sport-psychology, sports-psychology, sports-psychology-articles, suffering, united kingdom psychologist

In a special effort to acknowledge the grueling nature of the Tour de France – this qualitative research on the

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Podium Interviews Will Frischkorn – Training for the Tour de France

June 15, 2009 Stephen Walker, PhD 1 Comment Bradley Wiggins, Christian Vande Velde, coaching, competition, cycling, David Martin, David Millar, David Zabriskie, Garmin Slipstream cycling, Johnathan Vaughters, Jonathan Vaughters, mental-conditioning, mental-toughness, motivation, performance, professional cycling, racing, sport-performance, sport-psychology, sports-performance, sports-psychologist, sports-psychology, Tom Danielson, tour-de-france, visualization, Will Frischkorn

Will Frischkorn, Tour de France stage 7 Podium’s Podcast of the Week Features an Interview with elite cyclist Will Frischkorn:

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Structuring Rewards for Athletes in Youth Development Programs

May 12, 2009 Stephen Walker, PhD 3 Comments coach, competition, counseling, development of young athletes, focus, mental-conditioning, mental-game, motivation, parents, parents-of-youth-sports-athletes, performance, racing, reward systems for youth athletes, sport-performance, sport-psychologist, sport-psychology, sport-psychology-articles, sport-psychology-techniques, sport-psychology-training, sports, sports-performance, sports-skills, young athlete development, youth sport administration, youth sports programs, youth-sports

By Dr. Haley Perlus Athletes First Why do young athletes participate in sports?  This is a simple question with insurmountable

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Larry Lauer Talks about: Beating Your Demons

June 27, 2008 Stephen Walker, PhD 3 Comments Ana, Ana-Ivanovic, composure, Ivanovic, larry-lauer, management, mental-toughness, mental-training, nerves, overcoming-adversity, performance, pressure, stress, tennis, visualization

By Larry Lauer, PhD, CC-AASP “I wouldn’t want to coach her, she is a head case!”“He will never be a

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Parenting Competitive Kids

May 8, 2008March 21, 2012 Stephen Walker, PhD 3 Comments child-development, coaches, competition, dr. tc north, enjoyment, family-dynamics, parenting, parenting gifted athletes, parenting-attitude, performance, positive-communication, unconditional-love, vicarious-living, youth-sports

by T.C. North, Ph.D. The vast majority of parents want the absolute best for their children. This is especially true

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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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USOC Sport Psychology's “TOP TEN” Guiding Principles for Mental Training

February 6, 2008 Stephen Walker, PhD 2 Comments coaching, consistency, mental-mistakes, mental-skills, mental-training, mistakes, olympic-sports, performance, success, technical-mistakes, training

By Sean McCann, Ph.D., CC-AASP, USOC Sports Psychologist 1. Mental training can’t replace physical training and talent. 2. Physical training

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Self Confidence, Motivation, Focus & Pressure – Athletes vs Entrepreneurs

January 10, 2008 Stephen Walker, PhD 2 Comments athletes, Bill, Bill-Gates, Branson, Buffet, consistency, cope, Els, entrepreneurs, Ernie, Ernie-Els, focus, Gates, Journal-of-Applied-Sports-Psychology, mental-skills, motivation, performance, pressure, Richard, Richard-Branson, self-belief, self-confidence, Singh, Tiger, Tiger-Woods, Vijay, Vijay-Singh, Warren, Warren-Buffet, Woods

The following paragraphs come from an article on Coach Dave Rogers. According to the Journal of Applied Sports Psychology, 2002,

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Golf Psychology

January 8, 2008 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments Andrea, Andrea-Furst, Bob, Bob-Rotella, Crampton, effective-practice, Flanagan, Furst, goal-setting, golf, Gow, Green, history-of-sports-psychology, Hunter, Hunter-Mahan, imagery, John, John-Crampton, Mahan, mental-skills, Nathan, Nathan-Green, Neale, Neale-Smith, new-frontiers, Nick, Nick-Flanagan, Paul, Paul-Gow, performance, Rotella, Smith, sports-psychology, visualization

Here are some of the opening paragraphs in an interesting article by Grant Dodd that appears on iseekgolf.com John Crampton

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