I would never lie to you and say I know the secret to parenting successful young athletes. First, it’s definitely not one single thing that makes the secret a secret. It’s more like a secret sauce with multiple ingredients that inevitably change with every family and every child. Furthermore, even though I could never tell […]
Just because an athlete makes a physical error repeatedly, doesn’t mean that they are having a physical problem. Likewise, just because an athlete makes a mental error, doesn’t mean their issue is with the mental side of sports. The reality is that mental errors are often the result of physical limitations and physical errors are […]
There is one mental skill that rarely gets recognition when it comes to identifying what makes an elite athlete an elite athlete. Research from renowned psychology professor, author, and “expert on experts” Anders Ericsson highlights this mental skill but doesn’t call it out specifically. In addition, sports psychology researchers and the authors of the ground […]