What is Sport Psychology?

Back in 1925, Coleman Griffith (soon to become known as the Grandfather of Sport Psychology) became the first person to make a career out of Sport Psychology by working with the athletes at the University of Illinois. In the 1960s Sport Psychology gathered momentum and saw Soviet Bloc countries adopting key principles. This then led […]

A recent (and, it should be said, not very scientific) poll at my local triathlon club about sport psychology led to an interesting, and somewhat unexpected, result – the majority of triathletes didn’t know what sport psychology was, nor how it could benefit them in their training.  With this in mind, I set out to […]