World-class athletes have a keen ability to stay mentally focused under pressure, block out distractions, communicate well with teammates, and make adjustments when needed. Through the use of an internationally recognized mental skills assessment, athletes at all levels better understand how to leverage their unique mental skills to improve their performance. They also learn how their mental style compares to elite athletes in their sport.
Attention and Alertness Training
Strengthen the Athlete's Focus and Attention
The Attention and Alertness Training addresses attention as a multi-level process. The training strengthens specific mental processes that are critical to attention such as: sustained, selective, alternating and divided attention processes. Athletes also learn how to use sensory motor activities to self-regulate their alertness.
Profiles In Mental Excellence
Learn How World-Class Athletes In Your Sport Perform Mentally
Few athletes get the opportunity to learn how elite players in their sport perform mentally under pressure. By using actual assessment data from world-class athletes, A Talented Mind teaches athletes at all levels how elite competitors perform mentally in sports such as Major League Baseball; NBA; NCAA Division I college football, soccer and softball; professional tennis and golf; and Olympic sports.
Set Effective Goals and Create a Strong Support Network
To stay focused on important individual performance goals, athletes need to define the goals that are within their control and identify the support they need. Sports Mind uses its proprietary Athlete's Goal Planning Kit to help athletes develop goals to raise their performance to the next level. Athletes also receive competition evaluation forms that a coach, parent or friend can use to observe and evaluate how well they achieve skill goals during competition.
The Talented Athlete Workbook
A Mental Skills Playbook
The Talented Athlete is an 83-page workbook that helps athletes develop the mental skills needed to play at their full potential during practice and competition. The workbook is packed with methods and worksheets to personalize your own plan to improve mental performance in sports. In addition to being a valuable guide for athletes, the workbook is helpful to parents and coaches as they help athletes develop mental skills and learn important life lessons.
Enhance Athletic Performance and Exercise Motivation
The Sports Mind Program provides assessments, training, and counseling to help athletes improve their mental performance in sports and life. The program has helped college, professional, high school, masters, and junior athletes enhance their mental and physical performance.
Mental Skill Techniques
Learn Mental Skill Techniques To Enhance Performance
Based on an athlete's mental strengths and weaknesses, he or she receives individual instruction and exercises to strengthen key mental skills needed before, during, and after competition. Athletes learn techniques to improve mental skills, such as: relaxation, guided imagery, narrowing focus and attention, reducing distractibility, controlling emotions, and preparing mentally to perform.
The Program is personalized based on each client's unique needs and sport. In general, we have found that most athletes who are mentally tough and consistent in their sport have strong mental skills in areas such as:
Mental Discipline: Multitasking; following rules; taking appropriate risks; speed of decision making; and staying disciplined and focused over time
Control and Self-Confidence: Having an appropriate need to control other people and situations; and strong self confidence
Communication and Leadership: Communicating ideas; communicating critical thoughts and negative emotions in healthy ways; communicating appreciation and support; and an effective leadership style
Performance Under Pressure: Raising the level of performance when under pressure; being physically and intellectually competitive
The program includes specialized assessments to identify your mental strengths and weaknesses as an athlete, and compares your results to elite athletes in your sport. Based on your results, we design a personalized program to enhance your mental skills using both mental and physical techniques that integrate your mind and body. Each component of the program has been tested and researched over the years by some of the world's leading experts in mental performance.
The following briefly explains each component of the Sports Mind Program.
