How to Boost Mental Performance in Athletes Coaches who work with athletes understand, perhaps more than most, that physical preparation alone does not tell the whole story. Mental performance coaching has steadily gained recognition as a meaningful part of athletic development, helping athletes remain composed, confident, and focused when the pressure is greatest,[1]. Yet elite-level youth and college athletes face an increasing burden of psychological distress, including an

Success is a choice not a chance. Joe Simpson, English mountaineer whose near-fatal climb in the Andes became the subject of a book and film, Touching the Void (1960–) How much time do we need to figure out what is going wrong for a team or a player? In sport, like many other avenues in life, we, as coaches, psychologists, doctors, and so on, fulfil part of our job by diagnosing and intervening to put things that appear wrong, right. In medicine, for example, some view using