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
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