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Five Keys to Strengthen Your Mental Muscle During the Off Season

Five Keys to Strengthen Your Mental Muscle During the Off Season

The end of the season is the perfect time to honor your dedication, determination and drive. It is also the perfect time to reflect on the past season and start to craft “The Comeback”. These tips are for your personal development and designed to help you optimize

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From the Bottom to the Top – Tips to Turn Your Team Around

From the Bottom to the Top – Tips to Turn Your Team Around

How does a team maintain motivation when they’re in the grips of a losing streak? What does your team need to do to orchestrate a turn-around and create another type of streak – a winning streak? Throughout the history of sport there have been numerous examples of

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Fuel Your High-Performance Engine

Fuel Your High-Performance Engine

Confidence is a result of the way you think. An athlete’s thoughts (internal self-talk) have a powerful impact on their performance. Mentally tough athletes know how to think; they know how to use their thoughts to create the outcomes that they want, and to do so consistently.

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Stick To Your Routine

Stick To Your Routine

Great athletes want to perform consistently every time they compete. However, the ability to perform consistently is easier said than done – your “A-Game” can be here today and gone tomorrow! Spotty performance can be frustrating to say the least. Routine practice of physical skills and techniques

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You Get What Your Mind Sets

You Get What Your Mind Sets

  Rhonda Rousey’s mind games allows her to remain #MAXConfident, #MAXFocused and #MAXMotivated to handle intense training  and dominate her competition.  Take a look at her strategy. Click Here to see the Video What is your mantra or impact statement?  An impact statement is a phrase or statement that YOU repeat (train) everyday. 

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Don’t Fear Failure – Learn from It

Don’t Fear Failure – Learn from It

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed” – Michael Jordan

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Generating Feedback through Post-Performance Reviews: The Basis for Consistency, Confidence and Mastery in Elite Performance

Generating Feedback through Post-Performance Reviews: The Basis for Consistency, Confidence and Mastery in Elite Performance

I could have played better. My shot was off today. Sound familiar? How many times have you walked away from competition feeling this way? It’s frustrating to know that you didn’t perform at your best, and this frustration can damage your self-confidence. Self-confidence – that belief in

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Changing the Game

Changing the Game

“The player is on the clock from the day he arrives in the NFL. He’s not thinking about what’s going to happen when he exits. He’s thinking that the fun has just begun.” Troy Vincent, EVP of Football Operations NFL, Former NFL player Every professional football player

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READY – SET – RESET

READY – SET – RESET

  Have you ever made a mistake? Of course you have – None of us is immune to this experience! But how does making a mistake ultimately impact your performance? In other words, once the error is made, how do you respond, and recover, from your mistake?

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Condition Your Core

What would you think if you were training with a coach who told you that you didn’t have to work on your core muscle (abs, back, hips)? You probably wouldn’t train with that coach for much longer! Every athlete knows that a strong core powers movement and

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