In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn helps a basketball player who wants to learn how to shoot more in games and have better quality shots without feeling guilty about shooting more often. 

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives the top mental game strategies to help athletes perform with confidence, and focus on their game. Athletes with fragile confidence have a tendency to play tentatively and limit their performance. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to play with confidence and perform to your potential.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn answers a question from a sports parent who wants to know how her son can regain confidence after a big hit. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes develop and maintain confidence in their game. 

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives the top mental game strategies to help athletes regain confidence. Athletes who lose confidence during competition have a tendency to doubt themselves when they perform. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to aviod doubt and regain confidence when you perform.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn helps a ice hockey player improve his self-confidence. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes let go of high expectations and perform with confidence. 

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives the top mental game strategies to help athletes perform with confidence. Athletes with high expectations have a tendency to doubt themselves when they don't perform up to those expectations. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to let go of your expectations and perform with confidence.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn helps a volleyball player who has lost her serve. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes perform their best in competition.

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives the top mental game strategies to help athletes trust in their abilities in competition. Athletes tighten up, try too hard and lose composure when they aren't performing their best in competition. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to trust in yourself.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn helps a basketball player who makes mental mistakes in competition. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes trust in their abilities and perform with confidence.

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives the top mental game strategies to help athletes strive for success instead of trying to avoid mistakes. Athletes tighten up and underperform when they try too hard to not make mistakes. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to improve confidence after mistakes.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn helps a boxer improve his confidence with his self-talk. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes boost their confidence and tust to perform their best in competition.

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives the top mental game strategies to help athletes use positive self-talk. Many athletes berate themselves, which can lower self-confidence. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how use self-talk to boost confidence.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn helps a basketball player relax in crunch time. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes tust their abilities and play relaxed in competition. 

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives the top mental game strategies to help athletes improve trust in themselves. Many athletes over control, tighten up and underperform during crunch-time. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to trust your skills in crunch-time.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn helps a basketball player who is afraid of failing. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes strive for success and boost their confidence in competition.

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives the top mental game strategies to be proactive with your confidence. Some athletes wait for that first good shot to make them feel confident. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to be proactive with your confidence.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn helps a basketball player who puts pressure on himself to perform. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes perform without expectations and tension in competition.

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives the top mental game strategies to perform without expectations. Athletes tend to tighten up and underperform when they place high expectations on their performance. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to perform with confidence.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn helps an football player who has a mental block when trying to kick PATs. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes perform without fear and tension in competition. 

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives the top mental game strategies to trust in your practice and perform your best. Athletes tend to tighten up and underperform when they try to avoid making mistakes. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to perform with confidence and simplify your performance.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn helps an athlete who focuses on her competitor. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes stop worrying about their competitors. 

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives the top mental game strategies to ignore competitors who try to get inside your head before competition. Some competitors use trash talk to distract you or cause you to lose confidence. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to focus on your game and not your competitors.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn talks about the importance of the mental game in sports. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes play up to their potential by improving their mental game.   

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn helps young athletes embrace mental training. Athletes may resist mental training for several reasons. Some athletes might not understand what mental training is while others might think they don't need to work on the mental game. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to convince your young athletes about the importance of mental training. 

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn helps a high jumper develop a pre-jump routine. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes feel confident, focused and mentally prepare for  competition.  

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives the top mental game strategies on how to use a mental routine in competition. You'll want to use your routine to focus your mind on the task, trust in your skills and feel confident. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to develop a mental routine.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn helps a young athlete who doesn't remember what he's learned in practice. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes rely on their training to perform their best.  

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives you the top mental game strategies to help young athletes learn how to apply their skills to competition. You'll want to practice new skills often so they eventually become automatic in competition. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to help young athletes transfer their practice to competition.

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This week's sports psychology podcast is about how to grind it out when you're not performing your best. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes grind it out and win ugly when they don't have their A game.    

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives you the top mental game strategies to learn how to trust in your game. Many athletes are too focused on performing perfectly instead of efficiently. You want to just get the job done even if it's not perfect execution. Listen to Dr. Cohn's mental toughness strategies to learn how to grind it out and perform your best.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn helps a football kicker who worries what his coach thinks about his game. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes stop worrying what others think. 

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives you the top mental game strategies to learn how to focus on your own game instead of worrying what others think. When you worry about what others think, you lose focus, tighten up and underperform. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to focus in the moment.

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This week's sports psychology podcast focuses on how to relax on game day. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes overcome pregame jitters and perform their best in competition.   

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives you the top mental game strategies to learn how relax before competition. Many athletes tighten up before competition because they too much about worry about what others think or are afraid of failure. Listen to Dr. Cohn's mental toughness strategies to learn how to reach your full potential in sports.  

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn talks about the psychological concept of momentum in sports. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes regain  momentum when not playing your best. 

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives mental game strategies to learn how to regain momentum to improve your performance. When you have momentum on your side, you must not rock the boat and question why. Likewise, when you have no momentum going for you, you can't pack your bags early. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to regain momentum and play with confidence.

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In this week's sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn talks about how to use failure and losing as a springboard or opportunity to improve your game. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes bounce back from failure.   

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives mental game strategies to learn how to use failure to improve your game. You don't want to dwell on failure or beat yourself up for mistakes. The top athletes understand that failure is a part of sports and know how to manage their mindset after failure. Listen to this month's sports psychology podcast to learn how to bounce back from failure.

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This week's sports psychology podcast is about your confidence in reaching your full potential in sports. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes make the shift from wanting success to believing success is possible. 

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives mental game strategies to learn how to think you can perform up to your ability. Many athletes self-sabotage their performance or don't believe they can achieve success or reach the next level of success. Listen to Dr. Cohn's mental toughness strategies to learn how to reach your full potential in sports.  

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This week's sports psychology podcast is about fear of making mistakes. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes understand the importance of playing with self-confidence. 

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives mental game strategies for how to overcome tentative play and fear of making mistakes. Most athletes worry about making mistakes.  Listen to Dr. Cohn's mental toughness strategies on how to play with confidence and overcome the fear of making mistakes. 

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This week's sports psychology podcast is about mental preparation and your pregame warm-up routine. Sports psychology expert, Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes understand the importance of pregame mental preparation. 

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives mental game strategies for how to become mentally prepared and ready before competition. Most athletes know how to become physically prepared before competition, but lack proper mental preparation. Listen to Dr. Cohn's mental toughness strategies on how to improve your pregame routine before competition. 

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This week's sports psychology podcast is about baseball players that get into a hitting slump and can't get out of it. This podcast helps baseball coaches and athletes understand a baseball player's mental game when they are in a hitting slump

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn gives mental toughness tips for how to help baseball players hit better at the plate. Most players in a hitting slump will search for a trigger to help them hit better. They might even keep themselves in a slump by focusing too much on changing their mechanics. Listen to Dr. Cohn's tips on how to improve your confidence at the plate.

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This week's sports psychology podcast is about when to start mental training with young athletes. This podcast helps youth coaches and sports parents understand when they can begin mental training for their sports kids. Dr. Cohn discusses the importance and value of mental training for youth sports kids. He states that mental training should not be used as a means of fixing problems, but rather as training and preparation with the physical aspect of the game. 

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn addresses questions that are of great significance to sports parents and youth coaches. He addresses the issue of when to begin mental training for sports kids. How much mental training should youth sports parents and coaches share with their young athletes? How important is mental training at this young age? And, is it more important then physical training? Finally, Dr. Cohn provides many valuable resources for youth coaches and sports parents on mental training.

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This week's sports psychology podcast helps athletes understand the training and trusting mindsets. Dr. Cohn contends that athletes must maintain a good balance between two important mindsets in sports: training and performance mindsets. Most perfectionists have trouble with the trusting mindset - they become stuck in their training. Over-doing one of these two mindsets cause you to not reach your full potential. 

In this Podcast, Dr. Cohn addresses questions that are of great significance to competitive athletes. He discusses which of the two mindsets are more important? The training or the performance mindset? He goes on to discuss each mindset in detail and talks about which mindset is most common among athletes.  And then finally, Dr. Cohn explains how one makes the transition from one mindset to the other.

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What is pressure and choking in sports? How do athletes react when they are under pressure? Learn how to cope with pressure when you are playing in the big game.

In this show, Dr. Cohn discusses what pressure is in sports and how athletes react when under pressure. He gives you sports psychology tips for dealing with pressure do you can perform to your potential in sports. 

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Do you often wonder about the mindset of great athletes?  How they enter into their game so focused appearing poised? These great athletes interpret pregame jitters as a cue for feeling prepared and getting ready to perform, as opposed to feeling anxious and afraid.

In this show, Dr. Cohn discusses the mindset of great athletes in sports.  He discusses pregame jitters and how to best deal with these, in order to reach success in Sports. 

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Do you often wonder about the mindset of those dominant athletes?  How they become so focussed on their game?  And how they manage to maintain this focus through to success.

In this show, Dr. Cohn discusses the mindset of those dominant athletes in sports.  He discusses the importance of combined physical ability with mental ability, that come as a package in order to reach success in Sports. 

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Do you become intimidated by other athletes you compete against?  The most important type of intimidation in sports is called self intimidation.  Self intimidation is the most difficult type of intimidation that athletes and coaches deal with in sports.

In this show, Dr. Cohn discusses how athletes become intimidated by other athletes and gives you his mental training tips for overcoming self intimidation.  And, how Phil Mickelson overcame the "Tiger effect."

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In this sports psychology podcast, Dr. Cohn, author of The Fearless Athlete CD Program helps you understand why athletes perform tight and scared in competition. Dr. Cohn explains why fear is such a huge problem for athletes' mental games and the major fears athletes maintain. He also discusses the types of fears that hold athletes back such as fear of embarrassment, fear of disappointing others, or getting pulled and sitting the bench.

Sport psychology expert, Dr. Cohn, owner of Peak Performance Sports, explains how he helps athletes overcome fear of failure or playing scared. Sometimes it takes months or even years to help athletes overcome their fears. Listen to this podcast now and learn the top mental toughness tips for performing without fear in sports.

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To reach peak performance in sports, athletes need to have a success-driven mindset or mental game. Athletes with a fear-driven mindset sabotage their mental game toughness and set themselves up for failure.

In this sports psychology podcast, you can learn Dr. Cohn's top mental toughness strategies for performing with a success driven mindset. You will learn to quickly recognize when you are consumed by fear and refocus to perform fearlessly. The success driven athlete is fearless and performs with trust during competition.

Listen now to discover Dr. Cohn's top fearless strategies to help you become a success driven athlete.  

Mentally tough athletes know that they do not have to perform well in warm up to perform well in competition. Michael Phelps displays such an attitude for success. Phelps used his positive attitude to gain confidence from his training so he could trust it in competition.

This sports psychology podcast teaches you pregame mental toughness strategies for warm up to help you reach peak performance in competition.

The goal for athletes is to not make any judgments about about the quality of their pregame warm up prior to competition. Some athlete get freaked out if they don't have a perfect warm up, which is a mental game error and puts them in a poor mindset at the start of competition.

Listen to this podcast on The Psychology of Golf. Learn how to peak perform when in contention using a pre-shot routine and other mental game strategies.

Adam Scott's tendency is to speed up his play under pressure when in contention in a tournament. In this podcast Dr. Cohn gives you golf psychology strategies for staying in zone and reaching peak performance.

This sports psychology podcast by the author of The Mental Game of Golf, teaches coaches, athletes, and parents how the a golfer's mental attitude changes under pressure and how to control the pace of play for peak performance in golf.

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Want to learn how to get into the peak performance zone? Listen to Dr. Cohn's sports psychology podcast on why focus is a critical component for peak performance and being in the zone. Dr. Cohn teaches you sport psychology strategies to reach a zone focus and concentrate in the present moment.

All athletes love the magical, sought after state of mind known as the *zone.*This state of supreme focus helps athletes in all sports perform at their peak.

Many athletes who want to reach their peak potential are always in search of secrets to hop into the '*zone.* But the zone is really not that complicated or hard to achieve when the right mental game strategies are put into place.

It is difficult to enter a *zone* state every time you compete. No one is perfect, but you can learn the mental strategies that will help you get there more often!

What really is the zone? The zone is simply a mental state of total involvement in the present moment. I like the word *immersed* as it indicates you lose yourself (or your sense of self) when you perform, which is how some athletes describe the zone.

Being in the zone is a state of total involvement in a task without the mental burden or worry, doubt, or fear about results. So, if the zone is that simple, why can't athletes achieve this mindset every time they hit the court or step on the diamond?

Many of the top athletes do -Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, and Maria Sharapova, for example. But some athletes are blocked from entering the zone because they are overtaken by massive distractions such as fear of failure and worry.

The top athletes know how to harness the power of the zone by using thoughts and images to trigger a mindset to enter the zone. 

Entering the zone may sound zen-like and magical, but actually achieving this level of immersion is very simple. When your mind fully connects with achieving a goal, such as serving an ace, attention is absorbed into the present (the here and now only). Your mind is riveted to the thoughts and images that help you execute with precision.

With pinpoint focus, fear of failure, worry, doubt, indecision, and other mental traps are forbidden from entering your conscious mind. In this state of concentration, mental distractions struggle to compete for your attention, but lose the battle.

Dr. Cohn discusses mental game approach that Kevin Harvick used to come from behind and win the Daytona 500. Learn how Kevin Harvick will use his win at Daytona to help him stay mentally tough throughout the long season ahead.

Dr. Cohn explains the mindset teams should adopt to help them work towards winning a championship over a season. Most sports happen over a long seeason. Staying focused for a long season is hard for more teams that peak too early in the season.

This podcast teaches athletes, coaches and parents the mindset to adopt over the course of a long season. Dr. Cohn teaches the mindset and approach that athletes should take in defeat and victory over a season.

Learn Tom Brady's formula for mental toughness in football. Dr. Cohn explains the mental skills that great players such as Brady have to remain composed and mental tough when behind. Examples are given from the Colts last game against the Patriots in the playoffs

Staying composed when losing is a trait of all champion athletes. Dr. Cohn explains how great teams an athletes remain composed and are able to turn a deficit into a win.

Want to start a mental training program for 2007 and don't know where to begin? Dr. Cohn explains options for sports psychology programs for athletes.

Every week, athletes and coaches ask me where to begin with a mental training program and how to start - personal coaching, online coaching, or read mental training books.

Starting a mental training program depends on several factors such as the type and severity of mental game challenges that block your potential, your level of competition, and your commitment to goals.

The very first step in your mental training program is to identify the mental game challenges that hold you back. You may already know what mental blocks sabotage your success in sports.

However, when an athlete begins mental training with me, I almost always discover other mental game challenges beyond the easily apparent issues. It really helps to get input from an expert on this.

The *top ten signs* you can benefit from mental training are:

1. You do not have well-defined goals or lack goal specificity.
2. You are so self-conscious, you worry about what others think.
3. You maintain many self-doubts about your sport.
4. You worry about letting others down by not performing to their expectations.
5. You suffer from anxiety, worry, or excess tension when in competition.
6. You attach your self-worth to how well you perform in sports.
7. You lose focus or have mental lapses during critical times of the game.
8. You are distracted by little things in your environment.
9. You become easily frustrated because of high expectations.
10. You cannot perform with freedom or trust in competition.

Can you identify with any of the statements above? This could indicate that you could benefit from a mental training program. The next step is to determine a program that best suits your needs.

Dr. Cohn discusses how to stay composed after making errors. Dr. Cohn explains why athletes lose composure after mistakes and the sports and golf psychology strategies for staying composed for peak performance.

Dr. Cohn discusses his sports psychology programs and how athletes can improve mental game toughness for peak performance in sports.

Mistakes or errors occur every day in sports and life, but many athletes stifle their own performance because they simply can't let go of past mistakes.

Missing shots, double faulting, and losing an important game happen often in the sports world and become a thorn in many athlete's mind in some cases for the remainder of the competition because they can't stop dwelling on the error or missed opportunity.

I am sure you have made some mistakes in your sports career that you and were unable to quickly forget. You carried a critical mistake with you for most the competition and either did not enjoy your day or were too busy beating yourself up to help yourself or your team.

Dwelling on errors is the number one distraction for athletes today. You cannot play in the present moment, a quality of the zone, if your mind is stuck on a missed opportunity or faulty performance.

Dr. Cohn discusses the mental toughness qualities of "The Soul of A Champion" - a series by USA Today and Versus Network. Dr. Cohn discusses two key components in sports pyschology - self-confidence and concentration skills.

This podcast takes a look at the mental game qualities of different champion atheltes on The Soul of A Champion series on Versus network. Dr. Cohn was an expert contributor for USA Today's Soul of a Champion Test.

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Does fear of failure prevent you from performing your best? Fear of failure in athletics is an epidemic. It's one of the reasons that perfectionists have a hard time taking their practice to competition. Most athletes will focus too much on avoiding mistakes when they have fear of failure.

Listen to Dr. Cohn's discuss fear of failure and the many causes that support fear of failure in sports. Furthermore, Dr. Cohn's give his key strategies for performing without fear of failure.

This sports psychology podcast teaches athletes, parents and coaches about fear of failure and why is occurs in sport. Dr. Cohn gives his key mental strategies for overcoming fear of failure and performing you best without a fearful mindset.

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Have you ever played better than expected and then hit the breaks because your were playing out of your mind and felt out of your so-called "comfort zone?" Most athletes get protective of a good performance and perform defensively in this situation.

In this sports psychology podcast Dr. Cohn describes the phenomenon of a comfort zone in sports and explains how to perform beyond your sports comfort zone by focusing in the present moment void of expectations and judgements.

This podcast teaches athletes, parents and coaches about comfort zones and how they occur in sports. Dr. Cohn gives his top mental game strategies for how to avoid getting stuck in a comfort zone and playing to the best of your ability.

Do you want to know how NOT to sabotage your mental game and sports performance when important people are watching you perform? Learn how to remain mental tough and totally focused when important people in your life are watching you perform.

Recently Rodger Federer had to control his mental game and remain focused on beating Andy Roddick when Tiger Woods came to watch him perform in the U.S. Open final. Listen to how Federer was able to remain mentally tough and win the U.S. Open with Woods watching him.

In this sports psychology podcast Dr. Cohn reveals his mental training secrets for performing your best when important people in your life are watching. These mental toughness strategies make sure you  

Todays sports psychology podcast is for athletes, coaches and parents who want to know what mental game breakdowns lead to a lose of focus in breaks 

A mental game breakdown in focus normally occurs as a result of distractions. There are two major types of distraction that all atheltes face - internal and external.

Internal distrations come from within and are normally irrelevant thoughts, images, emotions that pull an athlete of task and sabotage concentration. 

External distractions occur when an atheltes focus wanders to an irrelevant event or situation in his or her environment. For example, crowd noise or weather conditions may distract an athlete and lead to a breakdown in concentration.

Dr. Cohn explains his top focus-boosting mental game strategies to help athletes maintain superior concentration in sports. Listen now and learn the top focus-boosting strategies that will help you develop a zone focus and reach peak performance in sports.

Todays show helps athletes, coaches and parents understand they top two mental attitudes in sports that destroy confidence and teaches how to improve self-confidence.

There are two bad habits that many athletes today engage in - and they do it without even thinking about it. The habits I'm talking about are *not* drinking or smoking.

The two bad habits I am talking about, which kill confidence are:

1. Setting unrealistic expectations

2. Engaging in self-doubt

I talk about both of these concepts a great deal in my work, as expectation and doubt will cripple even a healthy level of self-confidence. Here is my conclusion after working with thousands of athletes from many sports:

Strict expectations will undermine and suck the life out of confidence! First, they set you up for a win/lose proposition. You either achieve or fail to achieve your expectations, which is not a good scenario for achieving success.

Todays sports psychology podcast is for athletes, coaches and parents that are interested in learning about perfectionism in sports, its advantages and disadvantages, and a few tips to combat the disadvantages of perfectionism in sports.

You would think perfectionism is positive for athletes in sports, but it actually causes athletes to try too hard and focus too much on being perfect, avoiding mistakes, and not disappointing others.

One of the major mental game errors made by perfectionists is their extremely high expectation they maintain. When they do not achieve their expectations - it's easy to become frustrated and lose confidence. Use this podcast to improve you mental training and rid yourself from the mental game handcuffs of perfectionism.

In this show, mental game expert Dr. Patrick Cohn, owner of Peaksports.com and PeaksportsNetwork.com, introduces the topic of sports psychology. Dr. Cohn highlights why athletes need mental coaching, topic areas athletes most need to work on such as focus, confidence, and composure and how to set about improving such areas.

An introduction to sport psychology mental game areas such as confidence, composure, expectations, focus and goal setting.

This show is for athletes, coaches and parents who are interested in learning about how sport psychology can help athletes improve performance. Dr. Cohn explains the public conception of sport psychology, the mental game strategies he teaches to athletes, and the imporance of mental training in sports.