Perfectionism: too much of a good thing?
in Coping with emotions, Endurance psychology
Adam Nicholls explains the upsides and downsides of perfectionism, and how to manage perfectionism to maximise performance MORE
No fear! Ensuring a successful return to sport after...
in Coping with emotions, Endurance injuries and health, Endurance psychology
Returning to training and competing after a long layoff can be an anxious experience. Adam Nicholls provides you with a number of psychological strategies to make your return to sport much less daunting MORE
Competitive athletes: Are your races a threat or challenge?
in Coping with emotions, Endurance psychology
Dr Josephine Perry explains how athletes can harness pre-race tension to enhance their racing performance MORE
Burn bright, not out!
in Coping with emotions, Endurance health and lifestyle, Endurance psychology
Dr Adam Nicholls looks at the latest research on avoiding burnout and provides you with practical strategies to keep you mentally and physically fresh MORE
Sport psychology: take mental charge of your performance
Owen Anderson explains how athletes can harness sports psychology to overcome stress in sport and maximise performance Mental stress can hurt your performances in a variety of different ways. It can raise heart rate and oxygen consumption, harming your exercise efficiency and causing particular workout and race speeds to feel tougher than they actually should.... MORE
Sports Psychology: The Science and Practice of Sports Motivation
Using Mental and Physical Sports Motivation The motivational dynamics of sport The 34th President of the US, Dwight D Eisenhower, once said that ‘motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it’. And as Dr Costas Karageorghis explains, recent research suggests that he... MORE
Sports psychology: stress management in sport
How athletes can avoid emotional burnout in sport Athletics coaches are constantly experimenting on their athletes, whether consciously or not, by seeing how much training they can take. Up to a certain level the athlete improves in performance, to a measurable extent, but there eventually comes a point when the training is too much. The... MORE
Sports Psychology: Maintaining emotional control in competitions
Competition & Emotional Control Here are some pre-performance strategies for taking control of your emotions before they take control of you. Competition can bring out the best or the worst in athletes, and the psychological demands are especially high when individuals or teams are striving to achieve the same goals. When physical skills are evenly... MORE
Sports psychology: train your mind to take control
Endurance performance is mentally tough; the best athletes can push themselves to sustain physical fatigue and remain psychologically positive over long distances and durations. But according to PP contributor Andy Lane, this doesn’t happen by chance; endurance athletes can train the mind to develop emotional control Emotional control is a skill needed to cope with... MORE
Competition performance: five techniques to help you control anxiety
‘Meet with triumph and disaster and treat these two impostors just the same.’ Rudyard Kipling Sport is littered with the broken dreams of those who wavered when they most needed to be in control of themselves and focused on the task at hand. Costas Karageorghis explores the nature of anxiety and its common symptoms, reviews... MORE
