Common Mental Game Challenges For Ball Players Your mindset can be an asset or a determent to your performance. If you doubt yourself, lose composure after mistakes or over analyze your performance, your mindset can hurt your performance. You can be your own worst enemy. In these situations, it’s hard … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How Do You React To A Loss? You can react to losses positively or negatively. You can beat yourself up, become frustrated with your performance and lose confidence, taking a negative approach to your game. You can also take a more positive look at your performance learning from your losses. … Read Sport Psychology Tip
The Confidence Roller Coaster Doubt is the number one killer of your baseball confidence. You might think, “Can I get a hit off this pitcher?” Or, “Don’t walk this batter!” Your doubts cause you to lose confidence, question your ability and get down on yourself. Without confidence and a strong mental … Read Sport Psychology Tip
How to Perform Your Best Under Pressure Some baseball players thrive in crunch time, such as when the bases are loaded. They want to be up to pitch or bat in this situation. These players demonstrate their confidence and trust to perform their best in critical moments. Red Sox pitcher … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Keeping Your Lead When Winning Does your team seem to relax when they have a big lead? For many teams, maintaining the lead and finishing off the game is hard to do. Finishing a game strongly is primarily mental, not physical. Physical skills can only carry your team so far. A … Read Sport Psychology Tip
Staying Confident When Hitting The power of choice is one of the most important mental game abilities that ball players possess. Much of my work with athletes involves teaching players that they have the ability to make good choices with their mental game. In fact, everything I do in sport psychology revolves … Read Sport Psychology Tip