Slumps Are Only Temporary Do you have full trust in your skills when you play in a game? When you are “in a slump,” do you have the necessary trust in your abilities and confidence that you will break out quickly? It is easy to have trust in your game when things are going well on the … [Read more...]
How to Cope Better with Adversity on the Ball Field
Approaching Adversity with a Positive Mindset Getting benched and becoming a starter… Ups and downs… Streaks and slumps… All these variables affect ball players differently. Let’s face it, no ball player wants to go through demotion, slump and other adversity during the course of the … [Read more...]
One Mental Trap for Ball Players
Focus on the Process It’s all about focusing on the process…. This may be one of the most over-used terms in sports, but it is the most important concept when it comes to performing to the best of your abilities. Baseball players can become consumed by stats. “I need this many RBIs by this … [Read more...]
When Ball Players Expect to Make Routine Plays
Expectations and Pressure Players Feel To be Perfect Part of baseball that players dream about is making flashy plays; fully laying out to snag a line drive, throwing out a player at home, diving for a ground ball to throw out a runner, hitting a walk-off single, etc. Many times, those flashy … [Read more...]
How Wilson Contreras Improved His Mental Game
Are Mental Skills important in Baseball? Baseball is a mental and physical game. You can’t reach your potential as a baseball player if you only work on one aspect of your game. Yet many players only work on the physical aspects of the game, such as throwing mechanics, hitting technique, and … [Read more...]
Athletes Who Are Self-Critical After Games
Mental Keys to Stable Confidence One sure-fire way of killing confidence is to be excessively hard on yourself after a bad game. Berating yourself or focusing on mistakes hurts your confidence greatly. Imagine if you had a coach that verbally beat you down after an error, giving up a run … [Read more...]
Stop Overthinking To Bust a Hitting Slump
How to Stay Patient when in a Hitting Slump Slumps are difficult to process for baseball players and one of the most frustrating experiences any player can have. One day you are hitting the cover off the ball, driving the ball in the gaps and piling up the hits. Then a few weeks later, you … [Read more...]
Do You Use Past Success to Feel Confident?
How to Remember the Past and Excel in Baseball “What is the difference between remembering the past and reliving the past?” One athlete recently asked this question about what to focus on: “I’ve been told to focus on the present moment if I want to play to the best of my abilities. … [Read more...]
Are you Intimidated by Older Ball Players?
Focusing on Your Accomplishments not Comparisons Have you or your athletes ever felt overwhelmed playing with older ball players? Aging up, being a newcomer on a travel team or making your high school or college team as a freshman can be overwhelming. Finding out where you fit in, battling … [Read more...]
How to keep Confidence after a Bad Game
Stabilize your Confidence Chalk it up to experience. This phrase is used to relay that bad circumstances, mistakes or outcomes can be used as learning experiences or dismissed altogether rather than dwelling on the negative, reliving the experience or beating yourself up over the result. As a … [Read more...]
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