Mental Toughness
7 Steps to Crushing your Club Volleyball Tryout
Club volleyball tryouts. At the end of each fall, an army of high school volleyball players looking for college coach exposure descend upon courts all over the country. Their regular [...]
Injured Athletes: Fight Depression and Stay Competitive With These 3 Tips
Allow me to open with a scene from the 1993 movie The Program. Coach Winters (played by James Caan): Jefferson, are you injured or are you hurt? Darnell Jefferson (played [...]
5 Steps to Building Bigger Self-Belief
Mastering the mental side of sports begins with quieting that noisy inner critic we've all met. Everyone's dealt with inner critic syndrome on some level. Wildly swinging with the most [...]
Kobe Bryant Reveals How He Handled Starting Just 7 Games in His First Two NBA Seasons
18 All-Star selections. 11 All-NBA First Team appearances. 5 NBA Championships. With all the incredible accolades Kobe Bryant accumulated over his 20-season NBA career, people tend to forget that it [...]
How to Change Your Basketball Body Language for the Better
You don't have to speak to send a message. While there's no section for it in the box score, body language can have a huge impact on an athlete's play [...]
Training With ‘Intent’ Is a Concept Too Many Young Athletes Fail to Appreciate
"Athletes are either compliant or competitive." I heard that phrase for the first time recently, and I quickly thought about how true it was when it came to sports performance [...]
Youth Sports Coaches Need to Take the Negativity out of ‘Accountability’
Every coach I’ve ever met talks about accountability at one point or another. However, many of them use it largely in negative terms: "You did something wrong, now you must [...]
What Athletes DON’T Do Matters, too
Athletes tend to have a very active mindset. What do we need to do to win? We've gotta train. We've gotta watch film. We've gotta practice the right way. We've [...]
Discipline is Freedom: 3 Ways Athletes Can Become More Consistent
Jocko Willink, retired United States Navy SEAL and Silver Star recipient, says “Discipline equals freedom.” The disciplined athlete finds freedom because they don't let others dictate their behavior. They don't [...]
How Treadmills Helped West Virginia Basketball Build Their Terrorizing Press Defense
West Virginia basketball is known for suffocating defense. In recent years, the Mountaineers have utilized an aggressive press defense that sees their players guard every inch of the court. The [...]