Improve Your Intensity and Focus in Practice In sports psychology, we find that a lot of athletes struggle with maintaining the same intensity in practice that they have in games. Since practice time lacks the emotional high of a competition, these athletes may just go through the motions in practice and not be excited or
Athletes Who Are Stuck in a Practice Mindset Today on the Top 10 Challenges of Perfectionism Dr. Cohn talks about athletes who are stuck in a practice mindset when they compete. One of the characteristics of perfectionists is that they are very comfortable in their practice routines, but not as comfortable in competition–for many different reasons. One reason is they are
Are You Stuck In A Training Mindset? In this week’s sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn and Olympian Wendy Bruce talk about how having a long season with very few competitions can present some challenges. Dr. Cohn and Wendy discuss how this can cause gymnasts or other performance based athletes
In this week’s sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn, answers a mental toughness question from one of his readers on how to perform as well in soccer games as well as his practice. This athlete is loose and has fun in practice, but struggles with negative thinking in games. Sports