Mental Training
These Three Words Helped Ben Simmons Stay Focused During His Rehab
It’s been 455 days since the Philadelphia 76ers made Ben Simmons the No. 1 pick in the 2016 NBA Draft. He has yet to play a single minute. Last September, [...]
Use This Mental Hack to Improve Your Warm-Up
Utilization of a Reactive Maximal Effort Warm-up for Improving Movement Patterns I personally hear the term "movement pattern" on a daily basis, and in...
How to Manage Sports-Related Anxiety
At some point in your athletic career you will experience stress, good or bad. The good stress prepares you, makes you eager to learn more, eager to...
The Cleveland Browns O-Line Coach Used This Simple Card Game to Test Prospects Before the Draft
It doesn’t matter how fast a player's 40 time is or how many reps he can crush on the Bench Press—if he can’t handle the mental side of the game, he won’t be [...]
Many Elite Basketball Players Possess These 3 Key Mental Skills
Tall. Fast. Quick. Strong. Explosive. Incredible wing-span. Absurd vertical jump. Basketball players, especially those in the NBA, are absolutely "freak...
How to Stay Mentally Strong on the Golf Course
Golf has an ironic relationship with time. While it takes around 3-5 hours to complete a round, you're only actually performing a fraction of that time....
5 Ways to Build Confidence for More Productive Workouts
What is the difference between the elite level athlete and all the other athletes who couldn't make it past the junior varsity squad? What helps...
How Mental Performance Affects Your Workouts
There is a great quote by Yogi Berra, " Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical." Yogi has a way with words. The idea that...
The Disconnect in Mental Training: Facts and Myths
After a tough loss, how often do you hear your coach preach messages like "be mentally tougher," "too many mental errors," "get out of your head," or "go in with [...]
Study: Playing Sports May Make You Smarter
Buffalo Bills QB Ryan Fitzpatrick finished in the top 1% of his high school class and graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics. What if it [...]