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20 May 2013

Tips for Building Team Confidence

Tags: confidence, sports psychology, team leader
Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Articles for Coaches, Sports Psychology | 2 Comments

As the coach you are not alone in supporting your team’s confidence. It is beneficial for coaches to identify members of the team that can help boost team confidence and promote success. Once you identify players with leadership capabilities have the team select or have your team elect a captain and co-captain. Team captains act as a liaison between players and coaches, so they will help you support team confidence. Other players look up to team leaders for guidance, reassurance, and encouragement as they do the coach. In sports team leaders are a valuable team asset you should use Sports Psychology Article

07 May 2013

Centering Techniques for Sports

Tags: Emotional Control, Robert Nideffer, sports psychology
Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Articles for Athletes, Articles for Coaches, Sports Psychology | Leave a comment

In Chapter 8 of Psyched to Win Dr. Nideffer refers to “Centering” as a technique, borrowed from the martial arts, whose purpose is to instill feelings of emotional control. These simple breathing and cueing exercises are used to calm and relax both the mind and body. Center of Mass Your Center of Mass is located one or two inches below and behind your navel. If one can consciously bring one’s attention to this point, one feels grounded or centered. In Dr. Nideffer’s article for class, he describes the importance of keeping a balanced, stable lower center of mass. This Sports Psychology Article

13 Apr 2013

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Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Articles for Athletes, Articles for Coaches, Articles for Parents, Sports Psychology | Leave a comment

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12 Apr 2013

Baseball Mental Training and Performance Enhancement

Tags: Baseball, Chase Utley, Derek Jeter, mental toughness
Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Articles for Athletes, Articles for Coaches, Sports Psychology | 1 Comment

When people talk about baseball they usually mention the physical aspects of the sport such as, hitting, arm-strength, and power. The primary focus of athletes in the past has been to improve their physical game to compete at a higher level. The physical component of the game is so emphasized that a good handful of professional ball players began using illegal performance enhancement supplements to gain a competitive edge. The physical component of baseball is important, but it’s also highly overrated, especially in higher levels of competition. I say this because all professional ball players have the physical tools Sports Psychology Article

10 Apr 2013

How to Become a Sport Psychology Professional

Tags: Degree, Education, Sports Psychologist
Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Articles for Coaches, Articles for Parents, Sports Psychology | Leave a comment

Sign up for a FREE 20 minute consultation with Sport Psychology Today’s Michael Edger MS, MGCP on “The Road to Success in Sports Psychology” We are offering this program to help guide young students, coaches and professionals interested in the field of Sport and Performance Psychology. Sport Psychology is a young rapidly growing discipline of Psychology. Because it is a relatively new and growing field there isn’t a lot of information available for those interested in deciding whether sports psychology is the right career chose for them. During this 20 minute session you will have the opportunity to ask Sports Psychology Article

21 Dec 2012

Sport Psychology and Mental Training

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Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Articles for Athletes, Articles for Coaches, Articles for Parents, Youth Sports Articles | 4 Comments

Sports Psychology is about improving your attitude and mental toughness to help you perform your best by identifying limiting beliefs and embracing a healthier philosophy about your sport. Mental training is used by elite athletes to help improve focus, confidence and deal with distractions. Many athletes have the ability to concentrate, but often their focus is displaced on the wrong areas such as when a batter thinks “I need to get a hit” while in the batter’s box, which is a result-oriented focus. Much of my instruction on focus deals with helping athlete to stay focused on the present Sports Psychology Article

19 Dec 2012

Mental Training and Performance Enhancement

Tags: mental game, sports
Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Articles for Athletes, Articles for Coaches, Articles for Parents, Sports Psychology, Youth Sports Articles | 1 Comment

For some athletes, mental training is an untouched avenue to improve sports performance. Many athletes do not understand mental training and may be skeptical about its value.Even if you as a parent understand the importance of mental toughness in your young athletes, your kids might resist it. If kids do not “buy in” to mental training, they will not reap the benefits it provides. We teach sports parents and coaches how to encourage their kids to have a strong mental game. Many athletes don’t realize that resources are available to improve their mental game. When under performing or in Sports Psychology Article

15 Dec 2012

Attentional Focus and Self-Talk

Tags: focus, self-talk, sports psychology
Written by Keith Begley, Posted in Articles for Athletes, Articles for Coaches, Sports Psychology, Sports Psychology Research | Leave a comment

Attentional Focus and Best Use of Self-Talk in Closed Skill Tasks International rugby stars and place kickers Dan Carter, Ronan O Gara and Jonny Wilkinson, among many others place the ball, set themselves, say something to themselves and mostly go about their business and put the ball between the posts. So what exactly are they saying and why? Research has shown that the use of psychological techniques can enhance sporting performance (Krane & Williams, 2006). Use of psychological techniques, cognitive strategies or mental training has been commonly used by high performance athletes for many years. Aided by the growth Sports Psychology Article

11 Dec 2012

Understand The Zone, Understand Sport

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Written by Robin Clarkson, Posted in Articles for Athletes, Articles for Coaches, Sports Psychology | Leave a comment

If you understand the playing zone, you understand sport. The big thing to realize is you have to go to the playing zone, it does not come to you and once you understand the parameters which allow you to enter, raise, expand and enhance the zone, you have to have a change perspective in what you do. What the playing zone is and how it works goes like this: The zone, like sport, works on space and time. And you have to think of the zone as a room in your mind. To enter this room you require stillness Sports Psychology Article

09 Dec 2012

Sport Psychology Article Submission

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Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Articles for Coaches, Sports Psychology, Sports Psychology Research | 8 Comments

Mental Edge Athletics is now accepting article submissions from athletes, parents, coaches, students, and professionals for publication on Sport Psychology Today. Articles are to focus on an area of expertise (sports parent, athlete, coach, professional interests) relating to sport psychology and the mental game. Upon publication articles will be categorized under the authors’ area of expertise. Every article will be published with the authors name and contact information (optional). Each month one article selected will be highlighted and featured in the Article Showcase where authors have the opportunity to list a profile for reference, and work with Mental Edge Sports Psychology Article

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