Sports Psychology Podcast By Peaksports.com

Today I’m introducing a new mental training series on the Top 10 Challenges of Perfectionism. Some of the greatest athletes ever are perfectionists including Tom Brady, Tiger Woods, and Serena Williams. So how did they get away with being perfectionists? Is this part of the reason why these athletes are great or is perfectionism a thorn in their side? The best athletes are able to parlay the advantages into shaping their greatness while managing the disadvantages that come with being a perfectionist. Listen to the Podcast to learn more about how to overcome some of the disadvantages of perfectionism and use this mindset to your advantage. And check back soon for the first episode of the Top 10 Challenges of Perfectionists: Stuck in a Practice Mindset. Resources for Athletes, Coach, and Sports Parents Learn about Mental Game Coaching For Athletes Download our a FREE Mental Toughness Report Read our Sports Psychology Articles Check out our Sports Psychology Audio Programs *Subscribe to The Sports Psychology

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn, answers mental game questions in Sessions With Doc. Why do so many athletes struggle with confidence? Listen to Dr. Cohn's new podcast to learn about Matthew Farber's experience in mental coaching. Resources for Athletes, Coach, and Sports Parents Learn about Mental Game Coaching For Athletes Download our a FREE Mental Toughness Report Read our Sports Psychology Articles Check out our Sports Psychology Audio Programs *Subscribe to The Sports Psychology Podcast at iTunes

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn, answers mental game questions in Sessions With Doc. What do I need to do to focus better in my basketball games? Listen to Dr. Cohn's new podcast to learn how to cope with distractions during the basketball game. Resources for Athletes, Coach, and Sports Parents Learn about Mental Game Coaching For Athletes Download our a FREE Mental Toughness Report Read our Sports Psychology Articles Check out our Sports Psychology Audio Programs *Subscribe to The Sports Psychology Podcast at iTunes

Are you a basketball player that often plays too tight in your game? In this video I’ll discuss: Basketball players who tend to play too tight in the basketball game. In this video, Dr. Cohn will talk about how to take all the skills you display in practice and implement them in your game. Resources for Athletes, Coach, and Sports Parents Learn about Mental Game Coaching For Athletes Download our a FREE Mental Toughness Report Read our Sports Psychology Articles Check out our Sports Psychology Audio Programs *Subscribe to The Sports Psychology Podcast at iTunes

Do you struggle with overthinking and playing indecisive on the basketball court? Listen to this podcast to learn how to be more decisive and think less on the basketball court. Resources for Athletes, Coach, and Sports Parents Learn about Mental Game Coaching For Athletes Download our a FREE Mental Toughness Report Read our Sports Psychology Articles Check out our Sports Psychology Audio Programs *Subscribe to The Sports Psychology Podcast at iTunes

  In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn, answers mental game questions in Sessions With Doc. How to have stable confidence in Basketball? Listen to Dr. Cohn's new podcast to learn how to have confidence in basketball. Resources for Athletes, Coach, and Sports Parents Learn about Mental Game Coaching For Athletes Download our a FREE Mental Toughness Report Read our Sports Psychology Articles Check out our Sports Psychology Audio Programs *Subscribe to The Sports Psychology Podcast at iTunes

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn, answers mental game questions in Sessions With Doc. What are some Mental Toughness Skills for Basketball?   Listen to Dr. Cohn's new podcast to learn how to be mentally tough in basketball. Resources for Athletes, Coach, and Sports Parents Learn about Mental Game Coaching For Athletes Download our a FREE Mental Toughness Report Read our Sports Psychology Articles Check out our Sports Psychology Audio Programs *Subscribe to The Sports Psychology Podcast at iTunes

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn, answers mental game questions in Sessions With Doc. How do I transition out of being an athlete? How do I stay focused when I know I'm nearing the end of my athletic career? Listen to Dr. Cohn's new podcast to learn how to relax the mind and body in basketball. Resources for Athletes, Coach, and Sports Parents Learn about Mental Game Coaching For Athletes Download our a FREE Mental Toughness Report Read our Sports Psychology Articles Check out our Sports Psychology Audio Programs *Subscribe to The Sports Psychology Podcast at iTunes

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn, answers mental game questions in Sessions With Doc. How to relax the mind & body in basketball? Listen to Dr. Cohn's new podcast to learn how to relax the mind and body in basketball. Resources for Athletes, Coach, and Sports Parents Learn about Mental Game Coaching For Athletes Download our a FREE Mental Toughness Report Read our Sports Psychology Articles Check out our Sports Psychology Audio Programs *Subscribe to The Sports Psychology Podcast at iTunes

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn, answers mental game questions in Sessions With Doc. Does a poor performance really rock your world and you tend to lose confidence and wonder what's going on? Today I'm answering a questions from someone who had left a question on our blog at peaksports.com/sports-psychology-blog. Here's what Rick had to say: "I'm in need of some help... I just had one of the worst football games of my entire football career and it is breaking me down slowly. I need to know how to get over this and move on." COHN: Rick, good question. It is really really important for athletes to respond to losses, to respond to poor performances in the right way. A lot of times athletes with fragile confidence will tend to implode after a poor performance. COHN: What is a poor performance? You can ask yourself that question... Often it is when you perform below your standards or below your expectations, feeling like you made too many mistakes or you did

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn, answers mental game questions in Sessions With Doc. I'm continuing my series on: What is mental coaching? How does mental coaching work? And, what do you do as a mental coach? Another question that I receive from listeners is: "What are the things that you do as a mental coach? What are the things that you work on when you're working with athletes?" COHN: It is a good question and one I receive often from people that will call in requesting more information about the mental coaching or write in via our website at peaksports.com and they want more information about: What do you do in your sessions? How do you help athletes? COHN: It may not be what you think because I am not a therapist, i am not a psychotherapist, I am not a psychologist... I'm a coach and simply a mental coach. COHN: So, what that means is I work on the mental preparation piece and helping athletes take their practice game to competition successfully. C

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn, answers mental game questions in Sessions With Doc. I get a lot of questions about mental coaching and what a mental coach does and how the process works... Today, I'm going to answer a questions from one of our listeners about: "How does mental coaching or mental training work?" COHN: Once we get connected with an athlete that is interested in metal coaching, we will ask a few questions and see if it is a good fit. Sometimes it is just not a good fir and for whatever reason we feel like the athlete isn't read for mental coaching or doesn't need mental coaching. COHN: So we just start with a conversation with an athlete or parent about what we do as a mental coach and ask them a few question about their mental game. COHN:Once were on go and an athlete commits to doing the mental training with us, then we shoot off two different assessments for the athlete. One is called an AMAP Assessment, or Athlete's Mental Aptitude Pr

  In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn, answers mental game questions in Sessions With Doc. We get a lot of questions about doing mental coaching and what mental coaching is all about. There are some myths and misconceptions out there so I would like to start to clear that up. One of the questions I received from my listeners is: "What is the success rate with your mental coaching?" When I get that questions I know that person doesn't really understand mental coaching because what I do is not about curing people, it is not about fixing people, it is not about getting them from 1 place to the next instantly... So, what is mental game coaching? Listen to this week's podcast to learn more about mental game coaching. Resources for Athletes, Coach, and Sports Parents Learn about Mental Game Coaching For Athletes Download our a FREE Mental Toughness Report Read our Sports Psychology Articles Check out our Sports Psychology Audio Programs *Subscribe to The Spor

  In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert Dr. Patrick Cohn talks with Dr. Megan Melchiorre. They discuss the psychology of volleyball and some of the challenges that volleyball players have. Dr. Megan is the newest member of the Peak Performance Sports team. She is the lead mental coach specializing in working with youth and high school athletes in various sports. Do you struggle with fragile self-confidence in games? In this podcast, Dr. Cohn and Dr. Megan discuss: When perfectionist volleyball players struggle with self-confidence and momentum changes in games. COHN: Fragile self-confidence obviously is a real challenge for athletes because their confidence tends to go up and down like a yoyo. COHN: We’re going to talk about perfectionists that tend to lose confidence quickly. In other words, they make a mistakes, mess up and then their confidence gets thrown out the window. COHN: What do you see with perfectionists and either making mistakes or other things that rock their co

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert Dr. Patrick Cohn talks with Dr. Megan Melchiorre. They discuss the psychology of volleyball and some of the challenges that volleyball players have. Dr. Megan is the newest member of the Peak Performance Sports team. She is the lead mental coach specializing in working with youth and high school athletes in various sports. Are you (or your volleyball players) able to take your practice game to competition? In this podcast, Dr. Cohn and Dr. Megan discuss: When perfectionist volleyball players go from practice to game time, they tend to lost trust in their skills. COHN: We know trust in ones skills the ability to take their practice game and what that have learned and apply it to a game situation, is vitally important. COHN: What does it look like when a volleyball player is trusting his or her skills verses when they are not? What is the difference? Listen to this week's podcast to learn what mental game tips Dr. Cohn and Dr. Megan to learn

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert Dr. Patrick Cohn talks with Dr. Megan Melchiorre. They discuss the psychology of volleyball and some of the challenges that volleyball players have. Dr. Megan is the newest member of the Peak Performance Sports team. She is the lead mental coach specializing in working with youth and high school athletes in various sports. Are you (or your volleyball players) highly self-critical of your performance? In this podcast, they will discuss... What tips can volleyball players use to manage perfectionism in games? COHN: We know one of the qualities of perfectionists is they are super critical of their performance; every play, every touch, they analyze and critique. COHN: How does that work for volleyball players and what are the challenges with that when they are trying to play a game? Listen to this week's podcast to learn what mental game tips Dr. Cohn and Dr. Megan give to volleyball players to learn more about managing perfectionism in games.

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert Dr. Patrick Cohn talks with Dr. Megan Melchiorre. They discuss the psychology of volleyball and some of the challenges that volleyball players have. Dr. Megan is the newest member of the Peak Performance Sports team. She is the lead mental coach specializing in working with youth and high school athletes in various sports. In this podcast, they will discuss... What are some challenges with perfectionist players? COHN: We know that perfectionism is a big challenge for volleyball players and in all sports… COHN: Perfectionists have some great qualities; they are highly motivated, goal oriented, always want to improve and strive to get better. But we also know that is comes with challenges when going to competition from practice. COHN: What are some of the challenges? Listen to this week's podcast to learn what mental game tips Dr. Cohn and Dr. Megan give to volleyball players about the challenges with perfectionism. Resources for Athletes,

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert Dr. Patrick Cohn talks with Dr. Megan Melchiorre. Dr. Megan is the newest member of the Peak Performance Sports team. She is the lead mental coach specializing in working with youth and high school athletes in various sports. Do you have teams that tend to get tight at the end of a set when maybe they didn't expect to win against the opponent and they tighten up and end up losing the set? In this podcast, they will answer the question of the week... "How do you help athletes stay aggressive at the end of a set or match when the game gets tight?" COHN: We know that then end of a game can be more pressure for some athletes... Maybe they tend to think too far ahead about the outcome... COHN: What are the challenges for athletes that they tend to get tight at the end of a match? What are they doing? MEGAN: They try to protect their lead. They start to play safe and to not make mistakes. MEGAN: When they play not to make mistakes, they tend to

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert Dr. Patrick Cohn talks with Dr. Megan Melchiorre. Dr. Megan is new at Peak Performance Sports. She is the lead mental coach specializing in working with youth and high school athletes in various sports. In this podcast, they will answer the question of the week... "How do you teach players to mentally focus throughout an entire game?" COHN: Dr. Megan, obviously focus is super important for any athlete and certainly volleyball players.  COHN: What are the challenges you find that players tend to struggle with or what gets in the way of focus when playing? MEGAN: In a volleyball match, players can be distracted by a number of things especially playing a tournament in club... There are over 100 courts in 1 area, so many whistles, balls, fans... it gets pretty chaotic in there. MEGAN: Those are external distractions but there is another category of internal distractions, such as negative thinking... MEGAN: What do you think are the top distrac

In this week's sports psychology podcast, mental game of sports expert Dr. Patrick Cohn talks with Dr. Megan. Dr. Megan is new at Peak Performance Sports. She is the lead mental coach specializing in working with youth and high school athletes in various sports. In this podcast, they will answer a question from one of our readers... "How do you help players cope with mistakes and keep their head in the game so they can continue to play confidently?" COHN: We know that athletes tend to unravel and have challenges with mistakes, especially young athletes. They tend to beat themselves up and be self-critical. COHN: Perfectionist athletes are the ones that really struggle with mistakes... MEGAN: Perfectionists, like those I've coached, have very high expectations and they are very self-critical of the way that they play and what they do during performance. COHN: What happens to them mentally after they make mistakes? What are the challenges associated with post mistakes? Do they get frustrated? Do they over analy