SPORTS BLOG ARTICLES.
Overcome Yips and Mental Blocks: Discover the Hidden Key to Peak Performance
By tapping into the brain's deeper emotional and reflexive systems, brainspotting allows athletes to process the underlying trauma or anxiety causing the yips. It offers a breakthrough where other methods have failed, helping athletes regain control and perform with confidence.
Brainspotting for Combat Sports
When athletes go through the experiences, there are basic ‘hardware’ and ‘software’ systems in the brain that we all have from birth. These systems kick into high gear when we push beyond our personal stress limits.
Olympic Preparation: The Performance Algorithm
Hacking your algorithm is proactively feeding your brain with the best information, routines, people, events, thoughts, and actions that ultimately influence your overall mental and physical state
Pro-Minded: Why Getting Present is an Athlete’s Advantage.
Athletes who can direct themselves into the present moment and focus on the advantages they are already equipped with are better able to adapt, react, and seize opportunities, even during the most challenging times.
Mental Blocks: The Freeze Response
Often, tumblers experiencing a block will say I feel stuck or my brain and body freeze up. Most don't know that there is an actual freeze response.
4 Tips to Help Your Baseball Player with a Fear of Getting Hit by Pitch.
As the athlete continues to think about the last time they got hit and what the next time could look like they are creating stronger fear memories and anxiety making it harder to stand in the box.
Exercise and Panic Attacks
Exercise is the remedy for almost everything including relieving mental health concerns but, what if exercise is triggering mental health concerns?
How Do I Talk To My Athlete About Therapy?
Talking about sports counseling to your athlete can be hard. Here are a few tips.
ADHD Athletes: What We Need to Know About Their Emotions.
ADHD in athletes is usually related to being hyperactive or unfocused. What we don't talk enough about is the trouble in regulating emotions.
Mental Blocks in Gymnasts.
Sports like gymnastics and diving are completely unnatural for our body to perform and our brain doesn't like it either.
College Athletes: The Stress You Carry
The demands of playing at an elite level, staying on top of course work, and managing personal life can be a heavy load to carry.