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Sport Psychology: how mental imagery and self-hypnosis can improve performance
Focusing your mind can result in huge performance gains
Sports coaching: how to coach athletes with learning difficulties
Learning difficulties aren’t just confined to the classroom; there are many talented young athletes who also suffer too.
Football matches: half time psychology
Effective communication between the coach and players is essential at half time
Sports equipment: how music and video can improve performance
The power of MP3 technology: why it works with young athletes
Brain training: learning new pathways to enhance motor skills
Brain training exercises can result in succesful changes to your technique
Sports psychology: mental imagery can improve sports performance
The ability to look into the future and the capacity to imagine can improve performance
Boxing: the psychology behind a successful boxer
How to think like a boxing champion
Sport Psychology: listening to music can improve sports performance!
The relationship between music and sport
Motor Sport: the importance of concentration levels
Motor Racing: life in the fast lane
Mountaineering: physiological and psychological training
Head in the clouds – altitude climbing psychology
Self-confidence in sport – make your ego work for you!
Self-confidence in sport – make your ego work for you!
Chinese Sport : The Rise and Rise of Chinese Athletes
Chinese Sport : The future's not orange - it's Chinese
David Walliam's Endurance Swim Coach Reveals All
Endurance Training and Mental Toughness for Long Distance Swimming
Sports psychology: Post-game recovery for rugby players
Is exercise better than rest for psychological recovery after a game of rugby?
The sports psychology of tennis
Game, set, and match – developing resilient self-confidence in tennis
Sports Psychology techniques to avoid anxiety
Competition Anxiety Needn't Get You Down
Does exercise affect brain function?
Effects of maximal exercise on the brain
Team sports have sports psychology benefits
Never walk alone
Sports Psychology and Yoga
How yoga and motivation exercises boost performance
Sports Psychology: Be Creative!
'Tuning up' performance - music and videos as ergogenic aids
Motivation in Sports Psychology
The motivational dynamics of sport
Carbohydrate benefit during cycling
How carbohydrate affects your mood
Self-Hypnosis In Sport
Imagery in sport – how imagination can enhance performance
The Science and Practice of Sports Motivation
Use Mental and Physical Sports Motivation
Half-time nutrition – what’s best for maximising fulltime performance?
Half-Time Training for Team Sports
Half Time Strategy - Temperature
Coping With The Effects of Temperature on The Pitch
How to prevent competition anxiety from getting the better of you!
Don't let competition anxiety get the better of you
Sports Psychology: endurance training
using your mind to help with endurance training
Football coaching - half time psychology
Make sure your football coaching mentally prepares you for the second half!
Emotional Intelligence and Performance
Can emotional awareness be developed as a sports skill?
Sleep Loss - Making Sure it Doesn't Affect Your Training
waking up to the performance of sleep
sports injury pain
Sports Injury Pain : Pain and brain - a revolutionary approach to chronic injury
detraining
Detraining - why a change really is better than a rest
Sport Motivation
Sport Motivation : To create a positive motivational climate you need more carrot than stick
mental effects exercise
Mental Effects Of Exercise: Prolonged exercise and mental function
fans pressure
Fans feel the pressure too
psychology sport
Sport psychology demystified - or not
child protection in sport
Child protection in sport
sports science
Sports science: What have the sport scientists done for us? Craig Sharp on the interface between knowledge and performance
marathon world record
Marathon world record: The day of the two-hour marathon
sports psychology article
Sports psychology article: Beset by 'Olympic phobia' and lacking in focus and toughness: a sport psychologist's damning verdict on the underperforming GB swim team
successful coaching
Successful coaching: The secrets of success with high-level athletes
How Athletes Perform Under Pressure
Choking under pressure
runners high
Runner's high: a new explanation
attribution
SPORT PSYCHOLOGY: The importance of attributions - or how to learn from success and failure alike
football managers
Football managers - Who is there to support the managers? A psychologist reflects on survival techniques in a cut-throat world
mental imagery | sport
Mental imagery for physical people: how recreating all-sensory experience can profoundly affect your performance
body building
Body building - Why bodybuilding dependence is not just a problem for men
underperformance syndrome
Underperformance Syndrome - how youth rugby coaches are using psychology to raise their players' game
East African running
East African running: an alternative explanation for the East African dominance of distance running
goal setting
Goal setting: One step at a time - how to raise your game through effective goal-setting
self confidence
The majestic self-confidence of Jonny Wilkinson - or how expectations can make or break your performance
exercise addiction
Exercise addiction
athletes eating disorders | female athletes
Athletes and eating disorders - Too thin to win: why athletes who lose weight to enhance performance are dangerously misguided
Sports Psychology: the effect of thought suppression on sports performance
Thought Suppression - a Paradoxical Effect
Sport Psychology: Golf players and choking under pressure
Do Pro Golfers 'Choke'?
Overtraining and Depression in sport: Is there a difference?
Overtraining and Depression: Is There a Difference?
Team Sports: Team Cohesion and Success: What Is the Link?
Team Sports Cohesion and Success: What Is the Link?
Sports Psychology: Maintaining emotional control in competitions
Competition & Emotional Control
Sport Psychology: self awareness in sport
How to get the best from yourself or an athlete you coach by effective questioning and attentive listening
Sports Psychology: mental preparation to improve running performance
When it comes to doing your best, it’s the thoughts that count.
Body Image: do boys have an obsession with their appearance?
When boys care more than girls about their body image
Can Physical Activity Reduce the Risk of Suicide?
Suicide and physical activity - Why Active Women May Be More Suicidal
Sport Psychology: encouragement boosts performance
How encouraging athletes boosts performance
Stress management in sport
Sport psychology: take mental charge of your performance
Sports Psychology: Attention Control Training
Attention Control Training - The crucial importance of paying attention
Musicians and exercise: how to avoid stage fright
Physically fit musicians may cope better with stage fright
Mental strength: performing under pressure
Mental strength - When you can manage your emotions, you can perform at your best
"Stages of change": how to motivate your athletes to help themselves
Improve your Motivational Skills to encourage Athlete Behavioural Change
The psychology of swimming: how swimmers approach training and competition
The importance of paying attention in sport
Fighting depression: aerobic exercise is proven to be more effective than antidepressants
Aerobic exercise is more effective than drugs in fighting depression
Sports psychology: can certain smells improve performance?
Researchers think they may have found a smell that could give you the advantage over your rivals
Sports psychology: can certain smells improve performance?
Researchers think they may have found a smell that could give you the advantage over your rivals
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