Mental Game Skills for Young Athletes
Learn how to improve your athletes' confidence, focus, and composure with sports psychology strategies:
Some athletes use the term “choking” to describe athletes who crumble under pressure. Some examples of chokers: Choking is under performing during pressure moments of a game or competition. The problem is not …
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How to Help Your Athlete Stop Tearing Themselves Down and Play Their Game Are your sports kids critical of themselves? After every mistake or bad game, do they put themselves down? When kids criticize themselves …
Young athletes Commonly Struggle with Comparison “My son is very tentative when playing basketball. He always has his eye on what others are doing—his teammates and his opponents. How can we help him play with more …
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Letting Kids Decide What Sports They Want to Play What are the Habits of Supportive Sports Parents? To be a supportive sports parent, you first have to ensure your kids are having fun. Second, you should help …
Feelings Can be Contagious in Youth Sports Athletes can pick up on others’ feelings--often negative--in youth sports. In fact, feelings can snowball from one player to another, either lifting the team up emotionally …
Helping Young Athletes Boost Resilience Resilience is an important trait for all athletes in sports. It helps them bounce back after losses, injuries and other types of adversity, says psychologist and former sports …
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