OVER the last few weeks, as teams bow out of championship football, I’ve had a number of club managers get in contact regarding building mental toughness for the season ahead. One email stood out as particularly worrying; “… we’ve done all we can as managers – the lads are just not mentally tough enough.” Aside […]
“As a Performance Coach, I have quite a number of athletes who contact me with the same desire – to improve their performance”.
Players like Maurice Fitzgerald don’t emerge by chance
Your heroes are not born with self-discipline, it’s a muscle they grow
There is the constant internal questioning of Why would they listen to me?
Gareth Fox suggests a new system to handle substitutions
Players in a poor state of mind will not make good decisions
THE Pixies classic ‘Where Is My Mind?’ first vibrated into my teenage ears from their album ‘Surfer Rosa’, and then more forcefully as the soundtrack to the cult classic film ‘Fight Club’. I loved it; a blend of guitar screeching teenage angst mixed with the testosterone fuelled images of illegal street fights. The chorus is the track […]
Players must enjoy themselves if they want long, healthy careers
Michael Murphy is just one of a number of athletes that has supported the use of psychology
