Last week I was deeply saddened by the news of the passing of one of the people I admired most in the field of sports performance and mental conditioning, Trevor Moawad. Moawad was arguably the #1 evangelist spreading the gospel of mental skills training and its importance in sports over the last five years. For […]
The average coach spends less than 5% of any given high school practice on developing mental skills. This means that during a typical 2-hour practice, a coach may spend about 6 minutes on mental skills. Even with those 6 minutes, coaches only touch the surface of the mental side of sports. Typically, the most that […]
Some athletes work harder than others. There is no debating this. However, are the athletes who don’t work their hardest lazy? Well, it depends on your perspective. If you view the concept of lazy through the lens of a personality trait, then you might view an athlete who doesn’t work hard as lazy. On the […]