Drawing on his own elite athletic experience and decades of consulting with professional, Olympic, and junior-elite athletes, Dr. Taylor demonstrates the importance of mental preparation for sports performance. This podcast, based on his book, Train Your Mind for Athletic Success: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals, focuses on five mental “muscles” that most influence performance: motivation, confidence, intensity, focus, and emotions. He will then describe simple and practical mental exercises and tools that athletes can use to strengthen these areas, including goal setting, positive self-talk, mental imagery, relaxation, and keywords, and how they can be incorporated directly into their practice sessions and competitive preparations.

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