TX Coaches – Mental Skills Coaching Workshop [VIDEO]

November 22, 2011 By
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CALLING ALL COACHES!! High School.  College.  Youth.  Amateur.  Wouldn’t you love to learn the mental side of the game from the Pros?  The Mental Coaches for multiple world champions?  If it’s your passion to develop excellence in young people, you won’t have a better chance this year to learn how to incorporate mental skills into your work.

On December 4th in Colleyville, TX, Coach Aaron Weintraub is bringing together the largest, and best collection of mental training talent in North America for a 1 day summit,  The Mental Skills Coaching Workshop’.

He joins us on the Athlete’s Audio Academy to discuss the workshop, and the impact that coaches can have when they correctly apply mental skills with their teams.

Onto the event:  How’s this for a ‘Murderers Row’ of knowledgeable speakers?

Brian Cain, Mental Training Expert and Coach

Trevor Moawad, Director of Mental Conditioning at IMG Academies

Bob Tewksbury, Mental Coach of the Boston Red Sox

Aaron Weintraub, College coach, Author, Mental Coach

 

The details are available at CoachTraub.com.  The topics that will be covered include:

‘The language players don’t understand but coaches always use’

‘Self-Talk; the key to unleashing personal power’

‘Winning the mental game at practice’

‘Teaching the power of imagery’

‘Developing pre-performance routines for consistency’

And there will be a number of panel discussions where you, and other coaches will have a chance to ask these great mental conditioning experts about the issues affecting your team, and how to create a winning mind in your players.

If you’re not able to attend this great workshop, post-seminar materials will be available via DVD, contact Aaron for more information.

You can also RSVP via Facebook, or download the registration form.

See you there!

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Psychology of Running (It’s more than one foot in front of the other…)

October 24, 2011 By 1 Comment
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Sure, to run effectively in marathons, 5k’s, and fun runs requires great fitness, and efficient mechanics…but what of the mental demands of running?  There are many mental training skills that come into play in these running events, and who better to help us understand them than a Sport Psychology professional who’s also an accomplished runner herself.

Welcome Cindra Kamphoff to the Athlete’s Audio Academy, where we improve the mental game of athletes across sports, disciplines, skill levels, and across the world.

Cindra is a professor at Minnesota State, Mankato, and has extensive experience running marathons.  She’s also focused her entire Sport Psychology consulting practice specifically on runners, www.yourrunnersedge.com.

Cindra S. Kamphoff, Ph.D., is a Certified Consultant through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. She is also a member of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Sport Psychology Registry which approves practitioners to work with Olympic athletes and national teams. She specializes in the psychology of running and marathoning.  She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Sport and Exercise Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and her B.S. from the University of Northern Iowa. Her dissertation received the 2006 NASPE Sport and Exercise Psychology Academy Dissertation Award, and she recently received the Dorothy Harris Memorial Award through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.

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Different kinds of goals for different stages of sports performance

September 18, 2011 By
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Our second visit with Sport Psychology pro Angus Mugford of the IMG Academies (Here’s the first).  Angus works with a team of Mental Conditioning Coaches @IMGAcademies under the direction of Travis Moawad.

Angus has got some ideas here on goal setting, to contrast two previous interviews with Josh Lifrak, and Rob Bell. We discuss outcome goals (the big ‘WHY’), process goals, and performance goals for sports.  It turns out everyone’s right on their perspective!

He is the Head of the IMG Academies Mental Conditioning Division, managing a staff of 9 consultants and developing programs for junior and professional athletes and coaches. Through his understanding and application of skills, Angus trains athletes in group and individual settings, across a wide range of sports and consulting with NCAA Division 1 programs, athletes from the WTA and ATP tour, NFL and NBA.

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If you’re thinking negatively, you might as well punch yourself in the face.

August 15, 2011 By
Dr. Taryn Morgan | IMG Academies

Dr Taryn Morgan, PhD, of IMG Academies (and the business manager of two previous guests!) joins the Athlete’s Audio Academy today to talk some Mental Skills Conditioning.

Dr. Morgan outlines the basics of mental skills in a concise, easy to understand, and friendly manner. (Oh, and she’s DR. Morgan…so you know that she knows her stuff).  She was also a collegiate Tennis, and Volleyball athlete, of some repute, too.  She’s been there.  Done that.  Bought the T-Shirt.  Used it to wash her car.

Taryn has consulted with numerous junior, collegiate, and professional/Olympic athletes and teams. She has been the mental conditioning consultant for Texas A&M Women’s Soccer, University of Tennessee Women’s Soccer, Rowing and Swimming/Diving, Maryville College Volleyball, the Southeast Florida Figure Skating Club (including Amanda Evora, Olympic Pairs skater) in addition to all of the IMG sports.

 

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A 5-point system to make you a Star | Dr. Jack Bowman | Mind Plus Muscle

July 25, 2011 By
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Wouldn’t it be AWESOME if there was a quick visual reference for optimal mental performance??  Something that would keep  you from having to read, remember, and think about a bunch of things…when you’re trying to NOT THINK!?

We’re lucky to be joined today by one of the most recognized Sports Psychologists in the profession, and a pioneer in distance learning programs for mental training.  He’s created (and describes here) the ‘Perform Like a Star’ program for athletes of all ages, and ability levels.

UPDATE!!  Dr Bowman has published a pdf of the Perform Like a Star program on his Facebook Page.  Here’s a link to the pdf.

Meet Dr. Jack Bowman, Founder of the Mind Plus Muscle Institute in Suffolk County, NY.

Dr. Bowman has been a guest with us twice before, discussing internships for young Sport Psychologists, and trying to separate the good info from the hooey with regards to mental training on the web.

He’s a certified consultant with the Association of Applied Sport Psychology, and he’s listed on the United States Olympic Committee‘s registry of Sport Psychologists.  An advocate of Sport Psychology Training at all levels of sport, Dr. Bowman has been a pioneer in the application of Telecommunications and Information Technology to make Mental Training and Sport Hypnosis accessible to all athletes

In addition to the ‘Perform Like a Star’ program, Dr. Bowman created the Mental Training Room, an online learning program in 1993.  Yep…1993, and he’s been involved in numerous programs at AASP, and at the Suffolk County Psychological Association, including the creation of a Mental Training manual for marathon preparation (which you can download here), and a podcast with Dr. Richard Lustberg on Sports Psychology.  Dr. Bowman is also board certified as a clinical hypnotherapist, and offers customized Sports Hypnosis recordings.

Dr Bowman details two important components to any mental skills training program, Goal Setting, and Mental Rehearsal(or Imagery).  At the Mind Plus Muscle Institute, Dr. Bowman offers Mental Rehearsal programs for Baseball, Ice Hockey, Basketball, Lacrosse, Body Building, Running, Football, Soccer, Volleyball, Sped Training, Wrestling, Triathlon, Tennis, and Swimming.  He’s also got some good advice for athletes to know what to look for in mental training, and what to look out for.

Dr. Jack Bowman is the Director of the Mind Plus Muscle Institute for Applied Sport Psychology in Port Jefferson Station, New York. Since 1980 Dr. Bowman has served on the graduate faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he teaches the Psychology of Sport. In 1981 he founded the Mind Plus Muscle Institute where he has developed numerous performance enhancement programs, including the Mental Training Room that is currently being utilized by athletes at major universities and Olympic training centers world wide.

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Sports Choking, explained by a psychology pro

July 6, 2011 By
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Picture this situation as an athlete…and see if it’s ever happened to you:

‘Like two minutes ago, I was playing GREAT!  Now I can barely hit the ball!!  WHAT HAPPENED!!’

Framed through the Masters collapse, and US Open triumph of Rory McIlroy, PhD Sport Psychologist from the Minneapolis area Dr. Justin Anderson joins us today to talk some mental toughness, resiliency, and how the brain works (and changes) when faced with the ‘zone’ or faced with everything falling apart.  (As documented in this article in the BBC)

There are changes at the neural level in high pressure situations.  Flow, Self 2 (in the language of the Inner Game of Tennis), Muscle memory is the goal…but when the pressure cooks up…the chemistry in your head moves to different areas of your brain.  Your brain chemistry actually changes, and a new alchemy kicks in that the athlete doesn’t experience very often…let alone their normal state!

Your brain changes, your body tenses up…LOTS of inhibitive changes all at once.  Imagine how hard it is to hit a shot in THAT mindset!

Dr Anderson gives some GREAT tips on how to recognize some of your own self-talk, and tension growing in yourself, and how to get refocused on the present & the goal!  Even setting appropriate goals for learning from experiences, or reframing, are tips that you’ll hear in this Athlete’s Audio interview.

Dr Justin Anderson is a licensed Sport Psychologist in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. He specializes in sport and performance psychology, organizational psychology (primarily with family-owned and privately held businesses), and counseling psychology.  He publishes a blog on Sport Psychology topics, and can be found on twitter.

As an aside to our interview…preparation, and practice in all of the different physical and mental conditions that you’ll face is key to staying focused in competition.  Check this out to see how Rory practices.  The money quote is the last sentence: “So I can prepare…just like I’m there really.”

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Use your mind to practice your sport! Imagery with Dr. Jim Taylor

May 16, 2011 By
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Bay area Sport Psychologist, and prolific blogger on mental performance, Dr. Jim Taylor visits the Athlete’s Audio Academy to discuss one of the most popular, and effective mental training skills for athletes, imagery.

Of course, Imagery is something that we’re really interested in here at Athlete’s Audio!

He’s got some great tips for performers of all kinds, and some ways that you can use imagery to boost your confidence, practice new skills, replay successful scenes from past performances, and engage all of your senses.

Dr. Taylor blogs regularly on Psychology Today, his own website, and he has a great series of youtube videos on his channel, too.  He’s big on facebook, and twitter, too.

Dr. Taylor is the author of 12 books, and is currently writing his next parenting book tentatively titled Kids 3.0: Prepare Your Children for the Crazy New World of Popular Culture, Technology, and Social Media (Sourcebooks) will be published in the Spring of 2012.

Dr. Taylor blogs on business, sports, parenting, technology, politics, and popular culture on sfgate.com (San Francisco Chronicle’s web site), huffingtonpost.com, seattlepi.com, and the Hearst Interactive Media Connecticut Group web sites. His posts are read by thousands of people every week.

Dr. Taylor has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends, UPN’s Life & Style, ABC’s World News This Weekend, and the major television network affiliates around the U.S..

He’s also a 2nd degree black belt, and former international ski racer.

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Why are so many girls getting hurt in sports? @Sportpsycher knows…

March 28, 2011 By
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We visited with Sport Psychology Consultant Erika Carlson, M.A., a few interviews ago to talk about the specific social, emotional, and motivational aspects that face girls in sports, and she’s a wealth of information about that subject.  (And about almost everything relating to mental training for athletes!)  For today’s conversation, we’ll focus on an epidemic rise in ACL, and other injuries amongst female athletes.

Think about it!  You’ve been practicing and competing with your team, and now, you can’t run, hustle, joke around, or compete….and you’re sitting in Dr’s offices all the time!  How frustrating, lonely, and boring!!

Plus, there’s a whole new cadre of skills that you have to learn to heal up.

Erika has seen a lot of this in her work as a Sport Psychology Consultant, and in her partnerships with medical, and rehab clinics around the Bay Area, and has a multi-pronged solution to help these athletes.

She’s also been interviewed in Sport Stars Magazine (she’s on page 7) about this topic, and leads clinics, and assembles custom programs to help young athletes deal with the emotional difficulty of having to sit out because of an injury.

Erika has dedicated the last 12 years to developing and implementing mental training programs to help her clients achieve their goals in sport.  Common goals her clients have are to earn a college scholarship, advance to the next level of their sport, improve performance and/or enjoyment of their sport, re-gain confidence or mentally prepare for a specific event.

Erika is pleased to be a Certified Consultant by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (#274).  For more information on AASP and the field of Sport Psychology please visit www.appliedsportpsych.org.

Erika is also a Member of the American Psychological Association (division 47), and IDEA Health and Fitness Association.

The sports she has worked with include, but are not limited to; soccer, golf, baseball, softball, gymnastics, acrobatics, track and field, basketball, volleyball, swimming, BMX, lacrosse, wrestling, equestrian, and hockey.

 

 

 

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GREAT article on Visualizing from Master the Shift | Josh Cox

December 16, 2010 By

Found a great source for training info from some of the top minds, and athletes in the world, including Lance Armstrong, Ryan Hall, Tara Stiles, and Paige Dunn.

It’s called Master the Shift, a Facebook page devoted to physical and mental health sponsored by Nissan.

US 50k Record Holder, 4-time Olympic Trials Qualifier,  & 3-time US Team member  Josh Cox has a great article up today called Visualizing Victory, about using your mind and your headphones to see yourself winning.  (and Athlete’s Audio is a BIG proponent of that idea!)

A quote:

“The mind is powerful tool, one that needs to be exercised as much – if not more than – the physical. Stephen Covey, in his best selling 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, said it this way:

“All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint.”

Josh runs you through one of his events…the picture that he paints is vivid, clear, uses a bunch of different senses, and with timing cues just as they would happen in the race.

“The next time you’re working out, visualize setting a new personal best, finishing that half marathon, running the final lap of that track race, or getting that ever elusive Boston Qualifier. Believe and achieve. Visualize your victory. If you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”

Check out the entire article here.

 

 

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On-line mental training for athletes.

May 7, 2010 By
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MAN, there are some interesting, innovative approaches to mental training. The Athlete’s Audio Academy is joined this week by Dr. Robert Neff, of Mental Training, Inc. in Dallas to talk about his new, groundbreaking tool for athletes, onlinementaltrainer.com.

Dr. Neff has worked with all levels of athletes, for over 20 years, and has created an interactive web-based application for all athletes to benefit from mental training, not just the select few that can afford one on one coaching.

Using a system that assesses the athlete, and applies artificial intelligence, you can get all of the benefits of working one on one with a sports psychologist for less than you’re spending on your gym membership.

Dr. Neff is a former professional athlete, and has partnered with some of the best-known professionals in sports psychology; namely, Dr Robert Weinberg, who literally wrote the book that serves as the primary textbook for students in the field.

Dr. Neff has some advice for coaches in team and individual sports, and will offer the top three mental training skills that all athletes need to succeed.

Dr Neff also discusses his fascinating research on, and application of the connection between imagery, memory, confidence and performance.  He’s created the ‘Memory-Confidence Web’, highlighting the importance of positive emotions in your athletic performance.  This part of the conversation starts at around 14:40 into the interview.  You can download a PDF of the ‘Memory-Confidence Web’ here.

The Athlete’s Audio Academy exists to offer a voice to Sports Psychologists from around the world who are committed to improving athletes’ performance, overall health, confidence, and mental skills.  If that describes you, we’d love to interview you!  Contact us, and thanks for watching!

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