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Mental Training for SportsMental training for sports prepares the minds of athletes for the demands of practice and competition. An athlete who is mentally ready is highly motivated, focused, and self confident will rise to peak performance when it counts.The effectiveness of any sports training program is compromised if athletes have difficulty learning sport skills correctly, focusing on strategies, or developing toughness. This website offers special tools that strengthen the coach's instructional skills and the accelerate athlete's learning curves. Athletes' psychological skills go hand-in-hand with their physical sports training programs. Sharpening attentional focus, speeding up response time, and using imagery are examples of how athletes can harness the benefits of mental skills that drive physical performance. 
Sport psychology is the broader field that studies how athletes' minds and emotions operate in sports. Within sport psychology, motor learning and control study how athletes can learn sport skills more quickly.
Key principles from sport psychology can be used to accelerate skill learning as well as mental preparation for peak sport performance. Psychological tips and techniques are linked to other sports training tips throughout this site.
World Champion Olympic Lifter David Rigert (Bruce Klemens Photo)
Learn how to leverage mental training to accelerate performance in the brand new DVD Strategic Weight Training for High Performance Athletes. Related Pages:Coaching FeedbackIndividual Differences Mental Practice Sport Skills Reaction Time and Decision Making Setting Goals Sport Memory Stages of Learning Training Variation Transfer of Training Top of Mental Training for Sports
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Excellent, practical handbook that combines the best principles across the sport sciences.
A broad resource that covers the history and status of each subdisciple of the sport sciences. For those who want a more in depth study of the sport sciences.
Designed for high school coaches who seek basic tools to improve mental preparation of athletes.
Designed for high school coaches who want to help athletes accelerate the learning curve.