How Can Prioritizing Your Team Improve Performance? Why Team Success Should Come First During the baseball season, it’s easy to get caught up in personal statistics. Home runs, batting average, strikeouts—these numbers feel tangible and measurable. But chasing stats can create a cycle of overthinking and pressing, making you less effective on the field. A … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How Do You Improve Even When You’re Playing Well? When do you focus most on improving baseball performance? Many times, when players are in a rut, they spend hours working on their game. They look for ways to rebuild their mechanics and regain their rhythm. These players often ask for … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Does Performance Anxiety Hurt Performance? Performance anxiety isn’t just about nervousness; it’s a physiological and mental response to stress or pressure. When you become anxious, your heart rate increases, muscles tense, breathing shortens, and your ability to focus narrows. When you are ill-equipped to manage anxiety, even routine plays become … Read Sport Psychology Tip
What Exactly Does “Trusting the Process” Mean? “Trust the process” is a phrase repeated countless times by athletes and sports teams over the last decade. The problem is that saying the words and believing in what you are saying are two different things. Many athletes haphazardly use the phrase when … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Are You Ready to Push Through Adversity? How has adversity affected your baseball or softball career in the past? Did your perceptions or reaction to adversity worsen matters? Baseball and softball seasons are long, and you are bound to hit some adversity along the way, no matter who you are … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Do You Press At the Plate? What does it mean when a coach says that you are pressing at the plate? “Pressing” refers to putting unnecessary pressure on yourself to be productive, drive in runs, or move runners into scoring positions. Pressing usually occurs when a player is slumping, feels … Read Sport Psychology Tip