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Mental Health

Raising Young Athletes: The Effect of Sport on Identity Formation

Identifying as an athlete can be fantastic: it serves as a solid foundation for healthy identity development and empowerment. But what happens when a youngster begins to see themselves as only an athlete – e.g. ‘I am a football player’ – to the exclusion of all else? This is where they fall...

Coaching

Competitive Edge – where do you get yours?

Do you sulk if you lose a pub quiz? Have you ever kept going until you are sick in order to win an eating competition? Or passed out trying to...

Mental Health

Never Stop Trying to Get Better

Now that your season is winding down, when is it OK to relax the atmosphere of your team and “just let them play” the remainder of the season. The short...

Athletes Insights

Athletes Post-Sport: Unqualified or competitive advantage?

Many elite athletes when considering their success in sport, can probably tell you that it didn’t always come easy… in fact it usually comes at a price. When training for...

Athletes Insights

Eyes on the Prize: How your Focus can Relieve Pressure in Stationary Shooting Tasks

Sports performance at a high level often boils down to the last moments of competition to dictate a winner. A penalty shootout to advance to the final, a golf putt...

Applied Sport Psychology

Social Support in Youth Sport…

When athletes talk about the progress that they make, their achievements, their celebrations or how they have overcome challenges and setbacks they often talk about the importance of the support...

Performance

Making Adjustments

When athletes make adjustments, four factors come into play. Coaches, along with the athletes should assess these factors and make the appropriate changes to their routines. Competence Specific skills are needed...

Applied Sport Psychology

Control the controllables in Sports

Sports can be such a relentless, ever-changing, fast-paced, unpredictable environment which can have a huge impact on our performance in a successful or unsuccessful way. How much of this can...

Performance

Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) in Sport

Creating a rich, full and meaningful life (while accepting the pain that goes with it) Quote by Russ Harris In this brief article I will be offering an outline of...

Applied Sport Psychology

Pressure in Sport, do athletes unlearn skills?

10,000 hours, this is the number many researchers have advocated that it takes for athletes to master their craft. Day in, day out, athletes practice to fine tune their skills...

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