What Mental Game Issues Cause Slumps? Slumps are frustrating but are a normal part of baseball. Even though the slump bug bites every player, it doesn’t make dealing with slumps any easier. Slumps can turn the most confident baseball players into doubters. Slumps are mental nuisances that challenge you in … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Staying Confident After Negative Commentary In baseball, how many times have you heard things like: “That player is not tall enough,” “He doesn’t have the arm strength,” “He is not quick enough to be a leadoff hitter,” or, “He is too slow, too fat, too uncoordinated, too…”? Similar statements can … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Strategies to Improve Mental Toughness Mental toughness is the key to consistent performance in baseball. Being mentally tough helps you to handle all the adversity that strikes during a baseball season. Slumps, injuries, demotion, personal issues, errors, under-performing and a host of other challenges can happen at any time. Many … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Take Your Practice Hitting Into The Game In our mental training video in the “Sessions With Doc” series, Dr. Patrick Cohn answers your sports psychology and mental training questions about how ball players can take their cage batting into games. Visit our Sports Psychology site, Peaksports.com, and click … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Bring Practice Confidence to Games “Why does my confidence disappear when I go from practice to games?” This is a question I received from many athletes who struggle with having a full tank of confidence in competition. Why would you struggle with confidence only in competition when you play the … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Using Positive Mental Imagery to Prepare There is an old saying, “Seeing is believing.” This saying has great implication when applied to sport. Think of that young ball player who generally likes playing baseball… He shows up to every practice, works hard and does what the coach asks of him. … Read Sport Psychology Tip