Are You a Self-Critical Figure Skater? In figure skating, your rival and your biggest adversary present two separate challenges… Your rival may be a skater you have grown up with or someone who beat you the previous year… Or a skater with a higher rank. Your biggest adversary is not another person, it’s YOU! An
Relaxation Strategies to Help You Mentally Prepare It’s not enough to train hard, practice regularly and master technique… Success in golf requires mental mastery. Golfers spend a vast amount of time and energy looking for ways to improve their performance but they neglect the mental skills that impact performance the most. When these golfer face
Overcoming Fear of Failure Performing New Skills Are you ready to add that new jump into your skating program or are you still hesitant to perform it in competition? Performing a new skating skill in competition is a process. Attempts, mistakes, adjustments and more attempts are necessary to reach a certain comfort and confidence level
Testing Your Mental Toughness in Sports In “Sports Psychology Sessions with Doc,” Dr. Patrick Cohn answers a question from Winston about testing his mental game for sports. Visit Sports Psychology for Athletes at Peaksports.com and click on contact us to submit your mental game questions for Dr. Cohn to answer in his mental game videocast
Mental Training For A Competitive Advantage In today’s world of sports, there has been in an increasing interest for athletes to engage in mental training. Many athletes looking for a competitive advantage have turned to sports psychology for an answer. Yet a vast number of athletes think sports psychology is for “head cases” or don’t
Why Golfers Struggle With Making Swing Changes Many golfers find it difficult to implement swing changes when playing in tournaments. Old habits are hard to break and tend to pop up during increased pressure of tournament play. The question is: How can you make swing changes and perform well on the course? Even Jordan Spieth,