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: Yanto Barker
- Tips from the top: Annie Emmerson
- Tips from the top: Jasmijn Muller
- Sleep
- Pre-performance routines
- Handling the media
- The ideal training camp
- 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
- 10 Tips… for athletes using Twitter
- Social media mistakes by athletes
- Ten tips… for athletes to grow twitter engagement & followers
- 10 tips… for athletes who Instagram
- 10 tips… for athletes who YouTube
- 10 tips… for athletes to get their LinkedIn looking slick
- 10 tips… for athletes setting up a Facebook fan page
Learning from the best – Interviews with great athletes
- John Levison
- Eddie Brocklesby
- Dame Sarah Storey
- Annie Emmerson
- Sally Gunnell, Lucy Martin & Joe Townsend
- Yanto Barker
- Jasmijn Muller – setting and hitting goals
- Sarah Williams
- Matt Jones
- Jasmijn Muller – mental toughness
Great sport psychology resources, books and podcasts
- Who are the super-elite athletes
- Becoming a sport psychologist
- Endurance sport specialists
- Great books on running
- Cycling books
- Listen your way to success…
- Books to make your brain buzz…
- Grim outside – get inspired
- What is a Sports psychologist?
- Four free and easy ways to learn
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: Mental combat, Phil Pierce
- Book review: How to support a champion, Steve Ingham
Latest research in Sports Psychology
- Latest research: Getting what you want!
- Latest research: Recovery strategies
- Latest research: Sports Psychology
- Latest Research: The Yips
- Latest research: Endurance athletes
- Latest research: The importance of social support
- Latest research: Supporting junior athletes…
- Latest research: Those performing in extreme circumstances….
- Latest research: The psychology of doping
- 13 new pieces of sports psychology research
Tips and advice
- 8 tips to handle a difficult conversation
- Thoughts – negative, positive or helpful?
- Tribe of Mentors – 55 tips from Tim Ferris’ new book
- 5 ways to feel more positive
- Focus, uninterrupted – how to minimise distractions so you can perform
- Parents of young athletes – helping them to survive and thrive
- Going back to work after maternity leave
- Social media mistakes by athletes
- Dealing with change
- Sleeping before a big race
- A challenge: Two words to lose from your vocabulary
- Advent tips
- London Marathon tips – 2 week countdown
- 2016 minus a month….
- Tips from retired athletes about dealing with the media
- The five Cs of networking
- Great quotes, thoughts and tips to keep in mind
- Five rules to live by
- Find your Wonder Women or Magical Men
- 10 tips to stop drowning in email
Wider sports interest
