How Athletes Can Perform Their Best When it REALLY Counts
For many sports, it’s that time of the competitive season when results REALLY start to matter. For many athletes and teams, from high school to pros, the REALLY important competitions of the year—States, Regionals Nationals, Worlds—are coming up and it’s REALLY important that they perform their best. Yet, this is also the time of year […]
Read MorePrime Sport Parenting Online Course is Live!
I’m excited to announce the launch of my latest online course, Prime Sport Parenting 505: Raise Successful and Happy Athletes, a 4-class course that is offered on-demand and self-paced to fit into the busy lives of sport parents. Prime Sport Parenting 505 provides parents of athletes in any sport with deep insights, useful information, and practical tools […]
Read MoreWhat Young Athletes Really Need
I come to this article from two directions. First, as a sport psychologist who has worked athletes and their parents for decades. There is no doubt that my experiences in helping athletes to achieve their goals and assisting parents in best supporting their children has informed my ideas here. At the same time, perhaps more […]
Read MoreSix Phrases That Weigh You Down on Game Day
For many athletes in many sports, the competitive season is now in full swing. In other words, the season is getting real and the competitions are starting to really matter! So, this is the time when you want to perform your best consistently. Yet, this is also a time when you may start to feel […]
Read MoreDon’t Let Outside Forces Influence Your Sports Confidence
I’m working with a world-class athlete who is coming back to her sport this season after a series of injuries. As you can imagine, it’s a real challenge for her to get her “mojo” back and regain her feel and comfort as she, once again, competes on the biggest stage of her sport. Perhaps her […]
Read MoreHow Media Use Hurts Athletes
I have a lot of pet peeves when it comes to athletes when they’re training including standing around before drills (no intensity), chatting it up with teammates when they’re about to begin practice (no focus), and half-hearted effort at the beginning of workouts (competitions can be lost in the few minutes). But I now have […]
Read MoreParents Needed to Pilot Test New Online Sport Parenting Course
I’m putting the final touches on my new 4-week Prime Sport Parenting 505 online course. I would like to enlist a handful of sport parents to review and give me feedback on the content of the course via a PowerPoint slide deck. I will be ready to send the deck out to testers by Monday […]
Read More4 Keys to Consistently Great Athletic Performances
I work with athletes at many levels of sport, from juniors to collegians to pros and Olympians, and a major goal that I help them to achieve is consistency in their competitive performances. I see so many athletes who have big swings in their performances from great one week to mediocre to even lousy the […]
Read MoreAre You a Sport Parent in Recovery?: A Humorous Look
I came across this funny, yet all too familiar, satirical video about sport parents in a recovery support group similar to Alcoholics Anonymous. I’m sure you’ll get a good chuckle from it while, at the same time, feeling a bit uncomfortable because it may hit a little too close to home.
Read MoreTen Laws of Prime Training for Athletes
The start of a new sports season is the time to improve your fitness and further develop your technique, tactics, and over-all performances for the upcoming competitive season. How you use your training time may very well determine how well you perform and whether you achieve your sports goals for the season. Training is hugely […]
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