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Between the Pipes: Mental Toughness Tips for Goalies

October 28, 2011October 29, 2011 Stephen Walker, PhD 4 Comments coaching, consistency, focus, goalies, hockey-goalie, ice hockey, mental-alertness, metnal-toughness, net-location-sequences, practice-routines, pre-game-preparation, recovery, relaxation, self-talk, spatial-ability, target-thinking, thought-pattern-interrupt

For Podium Sports Journal by Stephen Walker, PhD, CC-AASP and Alec Baker, PsyD What happens when you combine the speed

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The Effect Sports Psychology Has On A Young Athlete

April 16, 2008 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments 1992, attitude, attributional-style, Bunker, Bunker-Maguire, challenge, effort, expectancy, extrinsic-reward, feedback, focus, goal-achievement, goal-setting, imagery, Kremer, Kremer-and-Robinson, Maquire, motivation, Murphy, Murphy-and-White, occupationsl-psychology, Porter-and-Lewler, relaxation, reward, Robinson, satisfaction, sports-psychology--performance, visualization, White, youth-sports

Here’s the link to this article on FairGrader.com. To fully understand sport psychology, we must ask ourselves two very important

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Mental Skills for Triathlon

January 5, 2008 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments developing a pre-competition routine, focusing strategies, goal-setting, immagery, melinda frey, mental skills for triathlon, relaxation, research, university of utah

By Melinda Frey, PhD, CC-AASP, University of Utah In the summer of 2007, we conducted a study to examine the

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What should you think about while running?

November 21, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments associative-thoughts, attention, Biddle, bodily-sensations, coach, coaching, cognitive-strategies, competition, counseling, direction-of-attention, dissociative-thoughts, exercise-psychology, Gieske, health-psychology, Masters-and0Ogles, Mastesr, mental-conditioning, mental-game, mental-skills, mental-technique, mental-tools, mental-toughness, mental-training, mind, Morgan, Morgan-and-Pollock, Ogles, peak-performance, performance, performance-enhancement, Pollock, relaxation, researcj.-rimmomg.-focus, 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, Stevinson, Stevinson-and-Biddle, task-relevance, task-relevant-thoughts, thought-patterns, Wininger, Wininger-and-Gieske, Wininger-and-Graves, Wininger.-Graves.-perception

by Steve Wininger, Ph.D. The Research on Focusing Attention Most research has examined the attentional focus of runners by categorizing

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Sport Relaxation Techniques

October 23, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 4 Comments Add new tag, anxiety, breath control, controlling nervousness, mantra meditation, relaxation, stress

Relaxation is of great importance to any athlete striving for peak performance. Relaxation skills can help athletes reduce mental (self-doubts,