How to Stay Calm and Relaxed During Competition – Emotional Mastery During competitions, if you feel like any external factors (the crowd, competitors, judges, etc…) make you nervous, you will always be at their mercy, not having any real control. You need to take the...
5 Reasons Why Players Lose Confidence in Their Game Every single person on this planet has confidence issues somewhere in their life. Even Superman lacked self-confidence while being without his cape. However, for athletes wanting to raise themselves to the next...
10 Amazing Examples of Mind Over Matter While we often think of our bodies and minds as two distinct entities, it turns out they are much more entwined than we might assume. Researchers are continually finding evidence that the brain has a distinct power to manipulate...
Elite Athletes Visualize Their Obstacles to Push Past Them “I decided to go all in and immerse myself in the belief that I can run my fastest mile.” If you do something enough, eventually you start to memorize parts of it, maybe even all of it. For most people,...
The Benefits of Playing Sports Aren’t Just Physical! The physical benefits of competitive sports are the most obvious. Much attention has been given to the role of sports and exercise in decreasing the rates of obesity in our nation’s youth. While lower body mass...
Sports: The Power of Emotions Do your emotions help or hurt you in the heat of competition? At the top of the Prime Sport Pyramid sits emotions. It’s closest to the top of the pyramid (above motivation, confidence, intensity, and focus) because emotions will...
