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Guidelines for goal-setting: Researched and Tested

April 7, 2011April 11, 2011 Julian Morrow PhD 2 Comments conditioning assessments, dr julian morrow, fitness level, goal-setting, goals, lifestyle features, long term goals, mental-conditioning, mental-skills, mental-toughness, mental-training, motor skills, self-confidence, self-efficacy, short term goals, sport-psychology, sports-performance, sports-skills, status assessment

Sasha DiGiulian Win’s the 2011 SCS National Championships in Sport Climbing Photos by Dominik Walker Editors Note: Goal Setting is

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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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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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Mental Coaching and England's World Cup Loss

June 10, 2007 Stephen Walker, PhD 0 Comments coach, coaching, competing, competition, concentration, controlling-distractions, counseling, exercise-psychology, flow, focus, health-psychology, imagery, managing-stress, mental-conditioning, mental-game, mental-skills, mental-technique, mental-tools, mental-toughness, mental-training, mind, peak-performance, performance, self-confidence, simulation, soccer, 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, stress, stress-management, world-cup

“This week Sven Goran Eriksson blamed England’s failure at the World Cup on the absence of a mental trainer or