How to Be Mentally Tough Adversity is inevitable in baseball and life. Adversity doesn’t discriminate; it strikes every athlete, every team and in every season. There are many different forms of adversity: In addition to adversity, there are multiple responses to adversity. It is important to understand that adversity happens … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Have a Winning Mindset Your back is against the wall. It’s win or go home. What’s your mindset? How do you respond? This is not an easy situation to be in. If you haven’t faced this scenario, you will at some time. The difficulty lies in the fact … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Overcome Self-Criticism Are you hard on yourself as a baseball or softball player? Do you expect success and over-emphasize your mistakes? Sometimes ball players can be their own worst enemies. All they see are their mistakes, errors, strikeouts, outs, wild pitches and losses. For example, if you were … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Use Your Mind to Improve Performance Every young athlete has a dream of making it “big.” Whether they are dreaming of making the varsity high school team, starting on their college team or making the pros, the dream is universal. But what happens when your opportunity arises? Do you control … Read Sport Psychology Tip
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 season. When faced with being … Read Sport Psychology Tip
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, … Read Sport Psychology Tip