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.