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
Video 4: Does Social Approval Affect Your Confidence? In this video series, you learn about the top confidence-killers for ball players and what you can do to overcome these top confidence killers. In this video, you’ll learn: Social approval, how it can hurt your performance by creating distractions and pressure … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Patience and Composure When Losing When things aren’t going your way, how do you react? Do you feel sorry for yourself or let frustration affect your focus and performance? Bad bounces, poor officiating, silly mistakes or unexpected dips in your performance when it matters most are part of the game. … Read Sport Psychology Tip