If you're a fan of sports movies and larger than life sportspeople you'll love our collection of motivational and inspirational sports speeches (they're free too!).
After much research we've put together our 10 Rules of Sports Psychology - concepts that should be followed to get the best out of yourself in sport. It takes a lot of work for athletes to put these rules into practice, but take our word for it, these principles are what it all boils down to.
Want a Sports Psych book and not sure what to get? Well, we've hand-picked all the good mental training and sports psychology books from Amazon's collection and put them all in one place - our new Sports Mind Skills Book Store! Browse hundreds of titles, read reviews and buy at the best price, delivered by Amazon.
This month we're pleased to add:
Baseball:
Renegade Mind Set Techniques for Baseball - This left-field program offers ancient Zen Master secrets combined with modern day quantum physics!
Basketball:
Basketball Free Throw Champ - Learn how to focus freely when you walk up to the free throw line.
Nothin' But Net - Six sessions of state of the art sports hypnosis covering free throw accuracy, power, defense, instinct, speed, core confidence, the zone state... and more.
Body building:
Body Builder's Pack - 4 x 60 mins designed to stimulate muscle production and increase the efficiency of your body.
Body Building - Mental Mastery - A hypnosis-based 7 session pack to get ripped.
Hypnotic Bodybuilding - Barrie St John's Hypnotic Bodybuilding self hypnosis session can help you overcome plateaus in your developement.
Bowling (ten pin):
Bowling - Mental Edge Training - Discover how powerful your mind can be in helping you stay focused, intuitive, and powerful in your game.
Masterful Ten Pin Bowling - Ten pin bowling is all about process and flow. A good outcome comes naturally when the process is clean of distractions...
Zen Bowling - On the top audio selling list for Bowling this Month Magazine and used by bowlers worldwide.
Golf:
Golfer's Pack - This 4-part hypnosis bundle is designed to give you the confidence to handle woods and irons like a pro and go with the flow.
Ice Hockey:
The Goalie's Mind - Can really help if you're someone who finds that you play one great Ice Hockey game and then struggle during the next.
Martial Arts:
Improving Your Martial Arts - This MP3 gently allows you to become aware of your Martial Art mental and physical abilities through focusing on an individual area and then, through visualization, improving this area.
Martial Arts Heightened Awareness - This hypnotic MP3 has spiritual elements that will help you gain heightened awareness in your Martial Art.
Martial Arts Sparring - Super Timing - This session will increase your confidence and get you responding and perceiving reality more effectively when you spar.
There's so many new products this week, here's a summary:
All Sports:
Accelerated Sports Healing - Use your natural healing powers to speed your recovery from sports injuries.
Advanced Sports Pain Management - Expert sports psychologist Dr. Jack Singer guides you through the same hypnosis-based pain management exercises that he has used with elite athletes.
Core Sports Performance - In just four sessions, Dr. Jack Singer's unique hypnosis techniques and visualization exercises will help you fully utilize your unconscious mind for peak sports performance.
Golf:
Golf Mental Mastery - Golf Mental Mastery has been crafted to help you automatically and routinely eliminate the negative thoughts & stress that creep into your game.
The Mental Keys to Improve Your Golf - Michael Anthony's the Mental Keys to Improve Your Golf book along with his Polish the Wheel audio CD gives you a golf mental training program guaranteed to lower your score.
Football (soccer):
Fantastic Football - This is a great way to capitalize on the extensive physical training you do for football and is a must for those with great ambitions.
Perfect Penalties - If you ever get nervous and perform below your expectations when you front up to take a penalty kick then this hypnosis-based MP3 can make the difference!
Tennis:
Tennis Mind Game - The Tennis Mind Game offers ebooks including the Tennis Strategy Encyclopedia and Mental Manual for Tennis Winners.
Track & Field:
Keep Running - If sometimes you get that little voice in your head thay says 'Oh, this is too hard, why do I bother!', then this hypnosis-based track will help you keep running to improve both your fitness and times.
Quick off the Blocks - The Quick off the blocks hypnosis download helps to focus your unconscious mind to produce the best sprint start for you - every time.
Running/Jogging Motivation - This one is for those who otherwise enjoy jogging but sometimes find it difficult to get going or find it easy to make excuses not to!
Core Sports Performance is a wonderful hypnosis-based tool for the development of mental focus and emotional control - skills that all elite athletes possess, by Dr Jack Singer (2 CDs).
Sports Mind Skills latest additions are a very practical set of downloadable mental training videos by pre-eminent sports psychologists Dr Dan Gould and Dr Ken Ravizza. Mental Skills for Competitive Athletes, hosted by Ravizza, highlights specific strategies to help athletes reach optimal performance states.
5 Essential Mental Skills for Sport, narrated by Gould, shares practical drills and exercises that have helped champion athletes develop mental skills essential for top performances. Skills highlighted include motivation, positive thinking, confidence, emotional energy and mental preparation.
The third video, also by Gould, focuses on Mental Skills for Young Athletes. It's hard to know when and how to introduce mental skills to developing athletes. This video does the job very well, introducing mental skills to 7-13 year olds using plain, understandable language and clear, kid-friendly examples.
Read more and see samples from each video in our All Sports section.
Fearless Tennis is an excellent tool for ensuring stroke and tactical skills are implimented during match play. Champion player and sports psychology consultant Jeff Greenwald is an excellent speaker and he'll keep you engaged from beginning to end with practical techniques, personal breakthroughs and and mental strategies for Tennis. If you're looking for the power to use what you know when you need it most you can't go wrong with Fearless Tennis.
If you want to take the frustration out and put the mental toughness into your golf and tennis game, you must get this software! Knowing how to manage the mental and emotional challenges that come up while playing can only help your game. It's a sports psychology skill that will put the fun back in the game! Mental Toughness's special training techniques will show you how concentrate better, control your emotions better, and will have you playing your best in pressure situations. Read more about Golf Mind: Mental toughness and Tennis Mind: Mental toughness.
We've added another sport to our stable in the form of the revolutionary Basketball IntelliGym. It's software in the style of a video game but the advanced engineering behind it means you'll be improving your decision making and court sense at the same time. Read all about the IntelliGym.
Australian's Duncan Free and Drew Ginn (the voice of Rowing Mind Skills) have been acclaimed as world rowing's male crew of the year. The international rowing federation (FISA) award was announced in Budapest with Free and Ginn recognised after successfully defending the coxless pairs title at the world championships in Munich in September. It's second time around for Ginn, who previously won the award with James Tomkins in 2003, when they also triumphed in the coxless pairs at the world titles.
Talk yourself into performing better.
Today Sports Mind Skills is proud to release a 6-track Self-talk in Sport series, bringing our growing sports psychology library to 50 tracks!
Self-talk for sport is about being mentally positive, realistic, calm and focused when things get tough.
These MP3s contain practical strategies to help you identify and challenge unhelpful thinking and to develop more helpful self-talk to manage your emotions like anxiety and anger, to advance your skills and perform at your best.
1. What is self-talk in sport? (5:37) - free
2. Self-talk for confidence and motivation (10:29)
3. Self-talk to manage anger - introduction (3:42)
4. Self-talk to manage anger - practical (11:13)
5. Self-talk to manage anxiety (11:22)
6. Self-talk to advance your skills (7:47)
The complete Self-talk in Sport package is $A24.95 and individual tracks $A6.95. Listen to samples and the free What is self-talk in sport? track at Self-talk in Sport.
This is a big month of new releases at Sports Mind Skills and today we welcome the duo of MP3s by Justine Tonner-Joyce under the Sleeping Better for Sport banner.
Recovery for athletes is a vital part of training and most recovery occurs during sleep. The first track, Information About Sleeping Better (6:27), can be listened to anytime and contains tips and techniques to help athletes set the conditions that promote better sleep.
Getting Ready for Sleep (15:28) is a relaxation MP3 carefully crafted to promote the onset of sleep. It will help athletes fall asleep more quickly, sleep better through the night and wake well rested. You can listen to it in bed or just before going to bed to put your mind and body at rest. Audio samples of both tracks are available at Sleeping Better for Sport.
For those of you who have enjoyed Sailing Mind Skills but found the recording a little quiet, you'll be glad to know it has now been re-mastered at a louder level. If you currently own Sailing Mind Skills and would like a copy of the louder version, just email us at info@sportsmindskills.com and we'll give you a url to download it from.
Check out the free new articles on sailing mind skills under the Sailing tab. Read about goal-setting in sailing, skill acquisition in sailing and mental preparation for sailing.
Sports Mind Skills are proud to announce the launch of the Injury Recovery Pack, a revolutionary set of three mental training tracks that can help athletes heal faster, maintain mental freshness during injury and return to sport with more confidence. Available exclusively as a MP3 download from www.sportsmindskills.com the Injury Recovery Pack consists:
1. Healing Faster (20:18 min) focuses on the repair of the part of the body that has been hurt. The guided visualization starts with relaxation and then leads you through energising, strengthening and rejuvenating images to bring new life to the damaged area. Soon after you have a diagnosis of your injury you can listen to it daily to speed recovery. You can also use Healing Imagery while undergoing physiotherapy activities, such as icing, or when you are just lying in bed at night.
2. Motivation and Goal-Setting (4:58 min) would be listened to when you are a little further recovered and are beginning to do rehabilitation exercises. Setting goals for yourself will provide motivation at a time when recovery seems slow and frustrating. It’s now when you’ll start to review how far you’ve come and begin to find ways to re-start your involvement in your sport.
3. Returning to Sport (13:00 min) with full confidence is the ultimate aim and subject of the third track in this series. In this track you’ll imagine doing rehabilitation exercises to help you control your technique so as to prevent future injury. You’ll rehearse specific skills from your sport and visualize yourself playing freely and strongly. This track will also help you leave the injury behind – just like an old toy you no longer want to play with. By this time you’ll stop thinking and telling people about how the injury occurred and start telling the story of how well you’ve recovered and how excited you are to start playing again.
Will it work? Scientific studies suggest that the mental training techniques in the Injury Recovery Pack can help you get better faster. For example, one sports psychology study has shown that recovery from injury can be accelerated when athletes engage fully in goal setting, positive self-talk, and the use of healing imagery (Ievleva & Orlick 1991).
Another study found that knee strength was greater and re-injury anxiety and pain were less at 24 weeks after surgery for a group that did relaxation and guided imagery sessions than for placebo and control groups (Cupal & Brewer 2001).
• Use your mental abilities to speed up your recovery
• Guided imagery to see and feel your body heal faster
• Enhance your recovery whenever you like with downloadable MP3 audio
• Re-gain confidence in movement
You can listen to samples from and download Healing Faster, Motivation and Goal-Setting and Returning to Sport at Injury Recovery Pack.
After missing out on competing at the Sydney Olympics due to injury, rower Drew Ginn come to realise that discovering an ability to face a challenge is a powerful source of motivation. Drew came back to win a Gold in Athens and more recently added another World Championship to his record.
In Facing Challenges Drew talks openly and positively about his motivation and the challenges he faced during his career to date. He asks you to consider the challenges you face and look inside to find a positive, determined attitude to overcome them.
Listen to a sample of Facing Challenges at Mental Toughness.
Under the For Everyone tab at Sports Mind Skills users can find a collection of downloadable MP3 audio tracks that address mental performance in a range of sports mind skills topics.
Athletes spend countless hours working on technique, skills and physical condition but minimal investment is made in developing mental skills for peak performance in training and competition. Sportsmindskill’s mission is to continue to develop and source quality products that help athletes develop high performance thinking for their sport and the rest of their lives. Our products are based on the latest research and give users an insight into the thinking of some of the world’s top athletes.
New tracks out now include:
Coping with exams Coping with uncertainty Dealing with distractions Fill your mind with what matters Imagery Training Package Putting competitive anxiety in its place Tools to increase your arousalThe products in the For Everyone category are designed to help teenagers and adults develop mind skills not just for sport but for the challenges faced daily like an important job interview or exam, presentations and performances, major events and personal challenges.
In a matter of minutes these sports psychology tracks can be downloaded directly on to your PC or laptop and then on to your MP3 player or iPod.
For more information see also Do I need Mind Skills?
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