Teach Your Young Athletes Healthy Sports Values: Part II
In Part I of my two-part series on values in sports, I explored the essential importance of values as the foundation of your children’s sports experiences. I also described what I consider to be healthy and unhealthy values. In Part II of this series, I discuss how you can ensure that your young athletes embrace […]
Read MoreVlog: Reach Your Ideal Sport Intensity
In my fifth of 12 vlog segments devoted to athletes and coaches, I describe the essential role that your physical intensity plays in your competitive efforts. When I talk about intensity, I mean the amount of physical activation you feel in your body before you compete. Intensity lies along a range from really low intensity […]
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Values in Youth Sports: Part I
When you think of sports, values are probably not the first thing that comes to mind. Yet, whether you’re aware of it or not, the values that you instill in your children as part of their sports experiences have an immense impact on every aspect of their athletic lives as well as their life in […]
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Vlog: Have Goals, not Expectations, for Your Young Athletes
In this week’s vlog segment, I explore the difference between expectations and goals. Expectations act as burdens that you place on your young athletes before a competition, causing pressure, anxiety, and worry. Goals, if used correctly, act as motivators to help them become successful. Having goals for your children in their sports participation starts with […]
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Taylor’s Latest Mental Training Book is Now Available
I am so excited to announce that my latest mental training book, Train Your Mind for Athletic Success: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals (Rowman & Littlefield) is now available in hard cover and e-book. Train Your Mind is the culmination of a decades of work with athletes from top juniors to professional and Olympic athletes […]
Read MoreVlog: Strengthen Your Confidence Muscle
In my fourth of 12 vlog segments devoted to athletes and coaches, I show you the essential role that confidence plays in your athletic success. Confidence is so important because you may have all of the ability in the world to perform your best and achieve your goals, but if you don’t believe in that […]
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6 Ps for Sports Success
With Thanksgiving approaching, you’re either in your competitive season or preparing for it in the season and spring. Hopefully, you’ve spent the off season working out in the gym, putting time in on the field, court, course, track, hill, or whatever venue you train in for your sport, and hopefully working on your mental training […]
Read MoreMake Your Sports Goal Setting S.M.A.R.T.E.R.
Goal setting is a simple and practical mental tool you can use to maintain a high level of motivation in your sports participation. For some very elemental reason, people respond to goals in a very deep and personal way. The experience of setting a goal, working toward a goal, and achieving a goal has a […]
Read MoreVlog: Find Your Motivation Every Day in Your Sport
In my third of 12 vlog segments devoted to athletes and coaches, I show you the immense impact that motivation has on your athletic success. Motivation is the foundation of everything that you do in your athletic life because without it, you wouldn’t go to the gym in the early morning, you wouldn’t put in […]
Read MoreVlog: Develop Emotional Mastery in Your Young Athletes
In this week’s vlog segment, I focus on how sport parents can help their young athletes to gain emotional mastery in their sports lives. As I’m sure you realize, emotions play an essential role in the lives of children both on and off the field. At practice and in competition, their ability to recognize and […]
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