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Dr. Ashwin Patel talks about the Mental Demands of Professional Motocross Racers

September 13, 2009 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments competition, concentration, dr. ashwin patel, focus, imagery, mental-conditioning, mental-skills, mental-toughness, motocross racing, professional racers, research, sport-psychology, sports-psychology, stephen, visualization

Podium Sports Journal Podcast of the Week: An Interview with Dr. Ashwin Patel about his work and research with Professional

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Coaching Education Podcast on Youth Football – Featuring Jay Goldstein

August 23, 2009 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments coach, coaching, Coaching-Education, competition, jay goldstein, motivation, nfl, nfl football foundation, play, research, self-esteem, skills acquisition, sport-psychology, sports-psychology, university of maryland, youth football, youth player development

by Stephen Walker, PhD, CC-AASP Jay Goldstein from the University of Maryland – speaks to us about his research sponsored

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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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"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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What Mental Skills Does the Average Age-Group Triathlete Use for Competition?

February 11, 2008March 21, 2012 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments anxiety, goal-setting, imagery, melinda frey, mental skills of triathletes, mental-toughness, motivation, olympic distance triathlon, racing, research, running, self-talk, swimming, univeristy of utah, visualization

By Melinda Frey, Ph.D. – CC-AASP, University of Utah In the summer of 2006, we conducted a study to examine

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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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PETTLEP Imagery 5 – A New Frontier in Mental Conditioning

December 31, 2007December 20, 2010 Stephen Walker, PhD 2 Comments Add new tag, arousal, balance-beam, dr. dave smith, effectiveness-of-PETTLEP, emotion, environment, external-imagery, focus, functional-equivalence, grade-C-skill, gymnastics, imagery, internal-imagery, learning, mental-conditioning, mental-imagery, mind-power, multisensory-involvement-in-imagery, neuropsychology, performance, performance-enhancement, perspective, PETTLEP, physical, research, stephen walker phd, task, timing

PETTLEP Imagery Part 5 By Dave Smith, Ph.D. In collaboration with Stephen Walker, Ph.D. from Podium Sports Journal The first

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PETTLEP Imagery 1 – A New Frontier in Mental Conditioning

December 21, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 2 Comments dr. dave smith, imagery, imagery-in-history, imagery-in-sport, international-journal-of-sport-and-exercise-psychology, mental-conditioning, muscle-memory, neuropsychology, research, scientific-literature, stephen walker phd, strength-training

Part 1 – Mind power: By Dave Smith, Ph.D. In collaboration with Stephen Walker, Ph.D. from Podium Sports Journal Imagery

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