Fact sheets to help with mental skills training:

• Confidence booster
• Imagery information sheet
• Relaxation information sheet
• Goal setting information sheet
• Self-talk info sheet
• Pre-race routine information sheet
• Information and tips for sleep in athletes
• End of year analysis

Infographics

• Tips for working with journalists
• Tips from the top: Dame Sarah Storey
• Tips from the top: Eddie Brocklesby
• Tips from the top: Annie Emmerson
• Tips from the top: Jasmijn Muller
• Sleep
• Pre-performance routines
• Handling the media
• Setting great goals

My research

• Research with 10 retired Olympic athletes about the impact of the media on their performances: Media Mindset Paper
• Research on mental toughness and injury in age group endurance athlete: Mental Toughness and Injury
• Research on the impact of fitness technologies on risk of exercise addiction.  Technology and exercise addiction – summary

Marathon running mental skills training

• 8 weeks till marathon – Training diary
• 7 weeks till Marathon – Understand your motivation
• 6 weeks to Marathon – Visualise your run
• 5 weeks to Marathon – Pre-race routine
• 4 weeks to Marathon – Distraction technique
• 3 weeks to Marathon – reframe your thoughts
• 2 weeks to Marathon – make your mantra
• 1 week to Marathon – confidence booster
• Marathon done – Banish any post race blues

Mental skills

• Using an emotion wheel to reduce stress
• 7 steps to get a mindset for success for athletes in any sport
• Ways to stop negatively comparing yourself to others
• Dealing with mental fatigue
• What is your mantra?
• Superstitions in sport
• Can ‘imagining success’ make you more successful?
• Self-confidence: Why you need it and how to get it
• Don’t make New Year’s resolutions. Make goals. And make them sticky…
• Max out your motivation
• Mental recovery from a major injury

Athletes and the media

• Social media: The pros and cons for athletes
• Research with 10 retired Olympic athletes about the impact of the media on their performances: Media Mindset Paper
• Tips from retired athletes about dealing with the media
• Social media mistakes by athletes

Learning from the best – Interviews with great athletes

• Eddie Brocklesby
• Dame Sarah Storey
• Annie Emmerson
• Jasmijn Muller – setting and hitting goals
• Matt Jones
• Jasmijn Muller – mental toughness

Great sport psychology resources, books and podcasts

• Who are the super-elite athletes
• Becoming a sport psychologist
• Great books on running
• Cycling books
• Books to make your brain buzz…
• What is a Sports psychologist?

Book reviews

• Book Review: Start with Why, Simon Sinek
• Book Review: The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg
• Book Review: Need for the bike, Paul Fournel
• Book Review: The Passion Paradox, Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
• Book Review: This Girl Ran, Helen Croydon
• Book Review: Run for your life, William Pullen
• Book Review: Irongran, Edwina Brocklesby
• Book Review: Run Smart, Professor John Brewer
• Book Review: Endure, Alex Hutchinson
• Book review: Faster, Fitter, Happier, Tony Westbury
• Book review: The Brave Athlete, Simon Marshall & Lesley Paterson
• Book review: How to support a champion, Steve Ingham
• Book review: In it for the Long Run, Damian Hall
• Book review: Running Stories, Jerry Lockspeiser & Andrew Roberts

Latest research in Sports Psychology

• Latest Research: The Yips
• Latest research: The importance of social support
• Latest research: Supporting junior athletes…

Tips and advice

• 8 tips to handle a difficult conversation
• Thoughts – negative, positive or helpful?
• Focus, uninterrupted – how to minimise distractions so you can perform
• Parents of young athletes – helping them to survive and thrive
• Social media mistakes by athletes
• Dealing with change
• Sleeping before a big race
• A challenge: Two words to lose from your vocabulary
• London Marathon tips – 2 week countdown
• Tips from retired athletes about dealing with the media