If you find yourself in an unfamiliar environment and someone gets hurt, no matter how trained you are, you likely feel experience a stress response. It’s important to know this and understand how it works so that you can be … Continue reading
Category Archives: Sport and Health
In most sports, there are situations in which an athlete would need to use focused attention and when that same athlete would need to use divided attention. Both are helpful to athletes and both can be detrimental to athletes. Let’s look a … Continue reading
What is Cognitive Psychology? Cognitive psychology is concerned with how we receive, process, store, and retrieve information. What does it have to do with sports? Cognitive psychology is linked to sports in that it allows us to acknowledge internal mental states … Continue reading
Many of us amateur golfers don’t get on the course very often. Then, we find ourselves signed up to play in a tournament and we haven’t played in a long time. How can we prepare? I went to the pros and … Continue reading
Many of my friends, my clients, and I are starting new health plans. Our goal is to eat well, exercise, and give up some vices. Adopting a new habit requires a lot of motivation and discipline. And quitting a bad habit … Continue reading
Every year I try to learn something new, and I suggest that my clients do the same. Learning something new is exciting and humbling. Trying a new sport or activity can give us a new perspective on our mental game … Continue reading
Golf is one of the most fragile sports psychologically. Golf is a game of confidence and competence. Negative thoughts tighten up the wrong muscles enough to blow your shot. If you want to consistently knock strokes off your game, you … Continue reading
In Inner Tennis – Part 1, we talked about general premises of The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey. He encourages players to achieve a nonjudgmental awareness. In Part 2, we explored his thoughts on body awareness and … Continue reading
In Inner Tennis – Part 1, we talked about general premises of The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey. He encourages players to achieve a nonjudgmental awareness. He says that “Judgment results in tightness, and tightness interferes with the fluidity … Continue reading
I recently read The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey. It is a classic book about the mental game of tennis. What is the inner game? In the beginning of the book, Gallwey expains it as being similar … Continue reading
CPR training has changed a lot in the last several years, as we have more research on what really works and what doesn’t really matter. CPR used to be complicated. People were so concerned about performing CPR correctly or getting a … Continue reading
What is your vice? Each of us have bad habits that we would like to quit. Quitting can be difficult because the forbidden fruit often becomes attractive. Saying no isn’t fun. So what are the secrets of quitting a bad … Continue reading
Parents want their child to have confidence and enjoy their sport, but they don’t want to over-praise. How can you best support your child in sport? Here are a 5 tips for supporting your child athlete: 1. Encourage self-motivation. Motivation must … Continue reading
I love yoga and recommend it to many of my clients. There are many types of yoga. Regardless of which type you choose, there are many benefits to adding yoga to your fitness regimen. Here are 3 things yoga can … Continue reading