Sports Psychology Tips: Body Image in Sport Does the pressures of sport impact on how you view your body? Body image is a very common issue, especially in sports where being thin or just making the correct weight is seen as a positive or where being underweight increases your chance of winning. Sports like gymnastics …
How to Develop Mental Toughness with Young Footballers Natalie Henderson is Professional Football Coach and with many years’ experience working with Premier League & International Youth Athletes, both male and female. She was also the first ever full-time female coach to work in a Men’s Premier League Academy as well as a proud winner of …
Observations: How To Set a Monthly Goal? David Charlton helps ambitious athletes to reach their aims, faster. He supports a range of highly motivated athletes and coaches. From ambitious youngsters and amateur athletes, as well as elite professional athletes, playing in the Premier League, European Golf Tour, Rugby Premiership and in The British Superbikes. Additionally, …
Sports Psychology Tips: Don’t Waste Another Lockdown We’re now into Lockdown 2 – the craziness of 2020 continues. I’ll get straight to the point in this blog! You’ve a few choices available during this lockdown: Option 1: You can spend time in the PAST Wishing this was a bad dream Getting upset that you can’t …
Sports Psychology Tips: How the Mentally Tough Deal with Lockdown David Charlton helps ambitious athletes to reach their aims, faster. He supports a range of highly motivated athletes and coaches. From ambitious youngsters and amateur athletes, as well as elite professional athletes, playing in the Premier League, European Golf Tour, Rugby Premiership and in The …
Sports Psychology Tips: Coaches – Are You and Your Team Pulling Together During Tough Times? The culture of a team or club starts from the top Right now, we’re in the middle of a pandemic with the recent government guidelines hitting sport hard. Even prior to this announcement mental health was a concern for many …
Sports Psychology Tips: Mental Toughness in Professional Football Julian Dowe is a former professional footballer whose knee injury prematurely ended a stuttering career after nine years in the game. During this time he played at various levels in England, Spain, Scotland, Sweden & Latvia. Retirement allowed Julian to observe of grassroots and elite level football …
Sports Psychology Tips: 7 Better Ways to Perform at Your Best Consistently Are you training hard and effectively? Many athletes will be spending lots of time training now BUT only a small percentage of those athletes will be using their time wisely. It is likely they will have thought about what they have done in …
David Charlton, Global Sports Psychologist Observations: Self Confidence in Sport David Charlton helps ambitious athletes to reach their aims, faster. He supports a range of motivated athletes and coaches. From talented and driven youngsters, amateur athletes, as well as elite professional athletes, playing in the Premier League, European Golf Tour and Rugby Premiership. Additionally, David …
Sport Psychology Tips: Being Perfect Comes at a Cost for Athletes Do you have high expectations of yourself? A lot athletes I have supported have struggle with perfectionism when practicing and competing. Perfectionist athletes demand a lot from themselves. They have high and unrealistic expectations. This can then lead to self-doubt and uncertainty when they …