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How Mental Skills Training with Champion’s Mind Prepared Me to Go Pro

"Mental training is THE game changer in sports performance and life." - Samuel Upshaw J, pro rugby player

How to Help Your Athletes Handle Game Day/Race Day Pressure

Handling pressure starts with what you do and say as the coach. If you learn to become a paragon of poise by staying calm and collected, your athletes will do likewise.

leadership mindset

How To Deal With a Disruptive Player Before They Ruin Your Team’s Culture

The first question to ask yourself is, “Does the player feel dismissed or undervalued by this new culture?” There has to be a reason why they’re acting out, and it could be because they’re feeling sidelined, excluded, or minimized.

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6 Ways Mindset Training Will Boost Your Team's Game Day Performance

“Everyone has access to the same equipment and similar coaching and facilities, so it’s only our players’ mindset that can set us apart.”

student-athlete mental health

Coaches: Here’s How to Help Your Athletes’ Mental Health

"If you lead the way as their coach, it shows that you care about your players as people and removes the stigma that some athletes attach to discussing their mental health." - Dr. Jim Afremow, Champion's Mind

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The Mental Skills that Make Students Classroom Champions

What I hope kids get from our athlete-mentors is that they need to keep grinding. Even looking back at my own career, the pattern was injury, injury, success, failure, failure, success. I would never have achieved anything if I hadn’t persevered." Olympian Steve Mesler

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Mental Toughness Exercises for Athletes

One way to practice being mentally tough is to reframe things that you might normally think of negatively in a positive way. Take a situation you’d usually just try to get through and turn it into something to grow through.

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.

daily mental skills training

The Competitive Advantage of Daily Mental Skills Training

Developing a daily mental skills practice requires a tiny time commitment from athletes – just five minutes – yet yields enormous performance dividends.

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