Sports Psychology Coaching

👉 Young Athletes' Mental Toughness Course: https://www.successstartswithin.com/young-athlete-mental-toughness-course 💪 Free Confidence Training: https://youtu.be/lw7GuRIEEao 🧠 Mental Performance Coaching: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching 📚 Sport psychology and mental training articles: https://www.successstartswithin.com/blog The number one goal for young at...

💪 Free Confidence Training: https://youtu.be/lw7GuRIEEao 🧠 Mental Performance Coaching: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching 👉 Mental Training Course: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mentaltrainingadvantage 📚 Sport psychology and mental training articles: https://www.successstartswithin.com/blog Dealing with pregame nerves is one of the most common reasons athlet...

👉 Young Athletes' Mental Toughness Course: https://www.successstartswithin.com/young-athlete-mental-toughness-course 💪 Free Confidence Training: https://youtu.be/lw7GuRIEEao 🧠 Mental Performance Coaching: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching 📚 Sport psychology and mental training articles: https://www.successstartswithin.com/blog The fear of failure is defined b...

👉 Young Athletes' Mental Toughness Course: https://www.successstartswithin.com/young-athlete-mental-toughness-course 🧠 Mental Performance Coaching: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching 💪 Free Confidence Training: https://youtu.be/lw7GuRIEEao 📚 Sport psychology and mental training articles: https://www.successstartswithin.com/blog Mental training is the practice...

💪 Free Confidence Training: https://youtu.be/lw7GuRIEEao 🧠 Mental Performance Coaching: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching 👉 Young Athlete Mental Toughness Course: https://www.successstartswithin.com/young-athlete-mental-toughness-course 📚 Sport psychology and mental training articles: https://www.successstartswithin.com/blog From an early age, athletes are taught...

In this podcast, you will learn pregame exercises you can use to reduce the fear of failure in sports! When you go into a game afraid to fail, you’re more likely to play timidly and scared. You tiptoe around your performance, terrified of making even the slightest mistake. But in order for you to perform your best, there needs to be a level of trust that is only present when you accept the possibi...

In this podcast, you will learn the differences between a training and a performance mindset! There are two different mindsets you need as an athlete: a training mindset and a performing mindset. Both have equally important roles to play in your success. However, if you get the two confused this can quickly lead to trouble. So much of performing has to do with your mental state. When your mind is...

In this podcast, you will learn the main reason athletes develop anxiety in sports! Anxiety in sports is no laughing matter.  Experiencing extreme worry on a constant basis leads to weakened performances. That’s why understanding why anxiety forms in the first place is a crucial piece of information. Which is why it's so important for you to learn where anxiety comes from and how to manage an...

In this episode, you will learn how to use visualization as an athlete! Sports visualization is an incredible tool for athletes. The neural connections generated as you imagine yourself performing instill memory within your mind. There are many ways you can go about utilizing visualization for athletic benefit. But, the four main areas I find most useful include visualization for handling pressure...

In this episode, you will learn how to turn practice skills into game-time execution! An incredibly frustrating situation to find yourself in as an athlete is seeing a disconnect between the level of your play in practices and games. Over and over you think, scrutinizing and analyzing your mechanics, wondering what’s going wrong! But here’s the truth…if you’re playing well in practice, it’s not yo...

In this episode, you will learn how you can let go of mistakes during a game! After you make a mistake during a game, you’re faced with two options: let the mistake go or hold on to it and carry it with you as the game goes on. The easiest choice is the second one. But the helpful choice is the first.  If you don’t want to make a mistake again and again, you have to learn how to let it go. Now, of...

Learn all the benefits of mental performance coaching! Mental performance coaching is valuable to any athlete wanting to improve their mindset and reach a higher level of performance. Through the use of different mental training tools and techniques, along with consistent effort put forth on your part, you can experience all the benefits mental performance coaching has to offer. Work with me! 🧠 1...

Learn how self-talk increases your performance as an athlete! Emotions and actions stem from thoughts. When your thoughts go unchecked and uncontrolled, they can easily turn negative. Leading to a decrease in your performance, and frustration for yourself. By taking control of your mind, through the use of self-talk, the opposite becomes true. You can actually use self-talk to increase your athlet...

In this episode, you will learn why sport psychology is important to you as an athlete! If you are a serious athlete looking to reach your full potential, you need to be making use of sports psychology. There are a tremendous amount of benefits it will have on not only yourself but also your game. From a better understanding of your thoughts and feelings, all the way to developing a more positive...

Learn how you can regain the passion to play as an athlete! Losing love for a game you once had so much passion for can be a painful experience. You may feel shameful, like a fraud, and as if you’ve lost a part of yourself. That doesn’t mean it’s the end, though. If you have the desire to once again play with passion and purpose, there are steps you can take to do so. With the five tips discussed...

Pressure is everywhere in sports. And so, as an athlete, you need to learn how to perform better under pressure. That way, no matter what situation you're in, you are able to perform your best! In this podcast, mental game coach, Eli Straw, shows you a strategy you can use to perform your best under pressure in sports. Work with me! 🧠 1-1 Mental Performance Coaching for Athletes: https://www...

Learn pregame exercises you can use to reduce sports performance anxiety! When you are too worried and anxious about what’s going to happen, this will likely cause you to play timidly and perform in a tense way rather than freely and confidently. This kind of worry is caused by thinking too much about the outcome. But to perform your best, you need that feeling of confidence. This is why you must...

Learn how to create your own pregame routine in sports! 🧠 Mental Performance Coaching: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching 👉 Mental Training Course: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mentaltrainingadvantage 📚 Sport psychology and mental training articles: https://www.successstartswithin.com/blog You need a pregame routine as an athlete.  Pregame routines in sports...

Learn how you can let go of mistakes during a game! 🧠 Mental Performance Coaching: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching 👉 Mental Training Course: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mentaltrainingadvantage 📚 Sport psychology and mental training articles: https://www.successstartswithin.com/blog You just made a mistake during a game, what do you do? There are a lot of...

Learn how to build trust in your skills in sports! 🧠 Mental Performance Coaching: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mental-performance-coaching 👉 Mental Training Course: https://www.successstartswithin.com/mentaltrainingadvantage 📚 Sport psychology and mental training articles: https://www.successstartswithin.com/blog High-level skills must be accompanied by high levels of trust. One of the m...

Knowing what drives you to compete as an athlete is huge because once this is understood, you can use it to your advantage. Within sports, there are two distinct forms of motivation: extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. Extrinsic motivation means you are driven by rewards and outcomes, while intrinsic motivation means you are driven more by the love for what you do. In all reality, as an athlete, y...

Attitude is everything. To have a young athlete not only perform their best, but enjoy themselves along the way, a positive and optimistic attitude is needed. Developing such a mindset requires you, as the coach or parent, to pay attention to how you are speaking, how you are acting, and help show them that mistakes are opportunities to learn. If you do, you will be doing your part to develop a go...

Negative thinking is only going to hurt you as an athlete. It leads to poor focus, fear of failure, sports performance anxiety, and many other harmful states that lower your level of performance. Which is why, you must learn how to control negative thinking during a game.  In this podcast, mental game coach, Eli Straw, reveals how you can manage negative thinking during a game and turn your mindse...

I am sure, as an athlete, you are physically prepared to compete. You’ve been practicing and are ready for whatever comes your way come game time. But what about mentally? Are you as mentally prepared as you need to be to perform your best? In order to be sure your mind is right for competition, there are five mental training tools you can use: visualization, mindfulness, performance objectives, s...

Sport psychology for kids is just as important as sport psychology for older athletes. The mental skills they learn will help improve their mental health, along with increasing their performance.  Now, the best and most effective way to build mental skills in youth athletes is one-on-one coaching. If you’re interested in learning more about mental coaching, please click here.  In addition to one-o...