In my last post, How to Overcome Negative Self Talk in Competition, talking about how to minimize negative effects, I refer to a pressure tip that says, pressure affects ALL athletes negatively, even world-class athletes. It tenses you up and hurts your ability to think strategically. If you want to perform... Read more
How to Stop Negative Self Talk I can remember it like it was yesterday… I’m 11 and in the car with my mom and my brother, who is a year younger. We are driving to our baseball game on a Saturday morning. My brother and I were on the... Read more
How to Stop Overthinking in Pressure Situations
High School Baseball/SoftballLEVELUP INSIDERS May 2, 2018 0
One of the things that happens with athletes when under pressure situations, is that the mind starts racing… Under Pressure Situations, your mind speeds up because it is doing it’s best to “think” of all the possibilities of how it can prevent the bad thing from happening. That’s the pressure… trying to... Read more
How to Boost Your Confidence in Sports?
LEVELUP INSIDERS April 20, 2018 0
Want to Know a Shocking Fact About Confidence Building and How to Boost Your Confidence in Sports? Watch my video. I know exactly how an athlete feels when a coach says, “you need more confidence if you want to be a better player.” That’s why I want to address how to... Read more
3 Mental Strategies To Get Over Fear of Failure
High School Baseball/SoftballLEVELUP INSIDERS April 10, 2018 0
Now that March Madness (including the Masters) are behind us and as the sports world’s attention shifts over to Baseball and Softball, I am going to make that my segue to talk about tackling the biggest problems of those two sports, Fear of Failure, by sharing 3 Mental Strategies... Read more
Best Tips for Athletes to Perform Under Pressure
LEVELUP INSIDERS March 21, 2018 0
Kids today have it much tougher than we did. The pressures are far greater, everything moves so much faster, and there is no sign of it letting up. Fitting in, peer pressure, not wanting to disappoint coaches and teammates, and the whole cyber-bullying thing… I appreciate you for following my Level... Read more
Learning the R.A.C.E. Formula to Perform to Your Potential
High School BasketballLEVELUP INSIDERS March 8, 2018 0
If you’re still with me in this ongoing conversation, you clearly connect with the messages I’ve been espousing, that young basketball players, like Tod, are carrying around mental/emotional baggage that interferes with ones ability to perform to your potential. Remember this equation: Performance = Potential – Interference Let’s talk about some typical... Read more
Basketball Performance = Potential – Interference
High School BasketballLEVELUP INSIDERS February 28, 2018 0
In our ongoing dialogue on basketball performance entitled, “What you don’t really understand about your kid”, We left off the last email just about to go into C. in my R.A.C.E. Formula with Tod, my game-changing 14 y/o basketball player who inspired me to create all of this. C = Clear... Read more
Building Confidence in Young Players: The “A” in RACE
LEVELUP INSIDERS February 20, 2018 0
We continue with Tod’s story. Confidence Part 2. See Part 1 of the Building Confidence in Young Players series: The RACE Formula This could easily be about dozens of boys or girls basketball players I’ve trained in just the same way. The next session he came in in a much better head... Read more
Helpful Tips: Building Confidence in Young Players
High School BasketballLEVELUP INSIDERS February 11, 2018 0
Today I want to share with you how I helped a 14 year old basketball player break through typical youth player struggles. It all starts with this one thing– that you just cannot allow to happen to a youth player. To begin, see if this 3 minute video story relates to... Read more
Perfectionism. Another Reason for Underperformance
LEVELUP INSIDERS February 9, 2018 0
In continuing our series on bringing player’s best practice/training game over to pressured competition … I often find many athletes wear a badge of being a “perfectionist” proudly. Unfortunately, many don’t realize perfectionism ends up only hurting their performance. How does trying to be perfect cause you to underperform? Seems counterintuitive, right? Well,... Read more
Mental Toughness- Confident Shooting- Hot Hand
LEVELUP INSIDERS February 5, 2018 0
Today I begin my series on the mental toughness side of sports training. All athletes and performers know they have more ability, skills, and talents than they have been showing in competition or on the stage. You are here because you want to see your talent show up a... Read more
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