Mistake No 1. Mental Performance Coaching Is Expensive

No1. Its Expensive

Is it? To excel, athletes need their brains to focus completely, so if time effort and money has been put in to physical training, surely it’s a mistake not to spend money on mental training!

Complete focus is often called flow or known as being ‘in the zone’ and only achieved by training the brain. An untrained mind is fundamentally hard wired to stay safe, it continually assesses risk; reviewing and reacting accordingly to an athlete’s uniqe set of experiences. In real dangerous situations this is helpful, however the flight, fight or freeze state can be triggered when we want to perform at out best. Often athletes recognise this as ‘butterflies’, raised heart rate, sweating, dry mouth, shortness of breath, but those are only the conscious reactions. Other more subtle unconscious reactions can inhibit performaance, often these are triggered in the competition arena or under team pressure.

Training the mind to focus supports the body in achieving.

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