injury recovery mindset How to Help Your Injured Athletes Get Their Motivation and Drive Back You need to learn to love your comeback more than you hate the setback. Your recovery is your new sport until you’ve healed, so embrace the challenge with the same level of dedication and commitment you usually bring to training and competition.
mental toughness How Mental Toughness Made a Good College Athlete Even Better "Mental toughness might not come naturally, but every athlete can develop it." Oregon Ducks pitcher Jordan Dail talks daily mental skills training.
athlete self-talk The Power of Positive Self-Talk The most powerful words we'll ever hear are the words we say to ourselves. You can either be your own worst enemy or best friend.
athlete visualization Seeing the Strike Out: How a Pitcher Uses Visualization on the Mound "The visualization part is huge for me, because the more I can see it and the more I can see myself doing it, the more successful I become. Then I have my best games." Softball pitcher Jordan Dail tells Champion's Mind creator Jim Afremow how she uses mental rehearsal to play her best and win.
student-athlete mindset The Mindset of a Star Transfer Student-Athlete "The more prepared you can be mentally, the greater the edge you'll have on your opponent." - Jordan Dail, Oregon Ducks pitcher
playing in the zone How a Star Pitcher Plays in the Zone Softball is one of the most highly competitive intercollegiate sports out there. While in basketball, football, and others, it’s the same few teams vying for dominance each season, in softball there’s
athlete mindset How Daily Mental Skills Training Made Michael Jordan the G.O.A.T. Mental skills aren't magic skills. That’s why we designed the Champion’s Mind app to help your players hone their mental game in just 5 minutes a day.
COVID-19 coaching Student-Athletes: The COVID-19 Shutdown is Your Chance to Develop a Champion's Mind It’s easy to think of your sport’s season getting closed down by the coronavirus as a chance to take your foot off the gas. In fact, this unprecedented period isn’t down time, it’s crunch time for your daily mental skills training.
COVID-19 coaching College Coaches’ Mental Skills Training Questions Answered As little as five minutes' mental skills training per day can help your team develop a gold medal mindset.
COVID-19 coaching Can’t Coach Your Athletes’ Physically? Help Them Be Mentally Tough. You can’t control many things that happen to your team but you CAN help your athletes foster resilience, perseverance, and a warrior spirit.
athlete goal setting Goal Setting with 2 Olympic Hopefuls You can create goals for different conditions, situations, and scenarios. If you keep track of things this way, you’re always PRing and moving forward."
athlete visualization How Visualization Helps Athletes Go For Gold "I started using visualization to help me become more motivated. I’m picturing the ultimate goals I want to accomplish."
goal setting Set Goals Like a Pro Soccer Player Mental skills were essential for me in college, dealing with two games per week, classes, training sessions, treatment, two-hour team meetings, and more. Goal setting, visualization, and deep breathing are the ones I used the most.
fortitude 20:20 Vision: Maintaining Your Mental Toughness This Year When Mayhem Strikes “I went back into an Olympic mindset, focusing on having the best training session I can today and using it to be better and get better.” - Michael Johnson, Olympic 200- and 400-meter
