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Demystifying Mental Toughness — 313 episodes

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312 Dr John Perry: How Sport Coaches Influence Mental Toughness

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311 Learning Orientation: When Coaches and Athletes Think Differently

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310 Risk Orientation: When Coaches and Athletes Think Differently

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309 Interpersonal Confidence: When Coaches and Athletes Think Differently

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308 Confidence In Ability: When Coaches and Athletes Think Differently

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307 Achievement Orientation: When Coaches and Athletes Think Differently

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306 Goal Orientation: When Coaches and Athletes Think Differently

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305 Emotional Control: When Coaches and Athletes Think Differently

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304 Life Control: When Coaches and Athletes Think Differently

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303 Why You Think the Way You Do Under Pressure

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302 Why You React the Way You Do Under Pressure

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301 Words of Wisdom – Collective Insights on Mental Toughness

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300 Owning Your Journey: Personal Responsibility, Success Redefined & Thriving on Loan

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299 Emotional Flexibility & Versatility: Inside the Minds of Professional Footballers on Loan

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298 Run Your Race: The Power of Consistency, Faith, and Mental Strength

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297 How Endurance Challenges Build Mental Toughness – Lessons from Pierce Showe

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296 How to Take Control of Your Emotions: Building Your Personal Playbook for Confidence and Calm

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295 Taking Control Of Your Emotions: Lessons from Ex-Footballer and Anxiety Coach Matt Young

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294 The 3-Second Reset: How Stuart Barnes Helps Cricketers Perform Under Pressure

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293 How Cricket Coaches Build Mental Toughness: High Challenge, High Support with Stuart Barnes

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292 Breaking Barriers in Sport: Culture and Inclusion in India & the Middle East

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291 From India to the Premier League: Sport Psychology, Belonging & Barriers in Global Sport

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290 Stop Focusing On Results: Developing Life Skills Through Sport

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289 How To Support Children To Enjoy A Positive Relationship With Sport

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288 How To Overcome Intense Emotions From Football

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287 Is A Blame Culture In Team Sports Helpful For Performance?

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286 How To Understand Neurodiversity Better In Football Refereeing

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285 Football Coaches: How To Help Neurodiverse Players Thrive

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284 What's To Come This Summer – Contemporary Issues in Sport

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283 How To Help A Swimmer Who Is Online A Lot Checking His Rivals Out

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282 How To Help An Emotional Tennis Player Perform Better

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281 How To Help The Golfer Who Searches For The Perfect Swing

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280 How To Help A Golfer Who Struggles Playing Strokeplay

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279 How To Help A Cricketer Overcome Selections Difficulties

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278 How To Help Young Athletes Who Are Distracted By Shouty Coaches Subtitle:

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277 How To Help An Extra Competitive Footballer

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276 How To Help A Footballer Who Focuses Too Much On Other People

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275 Demystifying Mental Toughness Podcast – What happens next?

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274 How You Can Challenge Yourself To Feel More In Control

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273 How To Improve Your Mental Toughness For Team Sports

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272 Sport Coaches: 15 Tips To Help You Become A Better Coach

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271 25 Ways To Improve Your Mental Toughness

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270 11 Ways To Build Your Mental Fortitude

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269 Do You Want to Make Next Year a Great Year? Why Contact A Sport Psychologist!

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268 Confidentiality: Ethical Considerations for Sport Psychologists

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267 How to Help Sports Coaches Navigate Anxiety

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266 How to Help Sports Coaches Cope With Pressure and Stress Better

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265 How to Help Sports Coaches Self Regulate Their Emotions

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264 How to Enhance Focus, Motivation and Confidence

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263 30 Further Ideas to Aid Your Performance and Psychological Well-Being

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262 50 Ideas to Aid Your Performance and Psychological Well-Being

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261 Why Are The Sporting Goals That You Set Yourself Not Helping You

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260 What Can I Expect When Working With A Sport Psychologist – Part 1

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259 The "I MUST FEEL CONFIDENT" to perform well myth

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258 Football: How To Overcome Mental Blocks To Improve Your Dribbling Skills

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257 Should I Change My Pre-Shot Routine To Get Better

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256 The Immature Brain: How To Help An Emotional Child

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255 3 Tips To Overcome The Fear Of Rejection

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254 How Can I Perform Better More Consistently?

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253 You MUST get up at 4am to be a SUCCESS

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252 Helping Out Of Contract Professional Footballers

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251 How To View Big Events As A Challenge

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250 Optimising Your Potential By Understanding Your Nervous System Better

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249 Understanding Workplace Collaboration In Coaching In Team Sports

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248 Embracing Fear And The Dreaded Yips

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247 David Charlton Gets Grilled By Tom Jones

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246 How To Deal With The Highs And Lows Of Sport

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245 How To Overcome The Fear Of Winning

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244 How To Deal With Playing Out Of Position In Football

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243 How I Would Help Rory McIlroy Win The British Open

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242 What Is The Difference Between Mental Toughness And Resilience #BITESIZE

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241 How To Cultivate A Limitless Mindset #BITESIZE

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240 How To Transfer Your Skills From Training to Competitive Situations #BITESIZE

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239 How To Overcome Batting Woes In Cricket #BITESIZE

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238 Are You Really Committed To Your Craft? #BITESIZE

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237 How To Distance Yourself From Your Thoughts #BITESIZE

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236 How To Use ACT and Mindfulness When You've Got Lots Of Time To Think #BITESIZE

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235 How To Use ACT To Improve Your Coaching In Sport #BITESIZE

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234 How To Combat Overthinking In Sport #BITESIZE

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233 How To Help A Young Footballer Overcome Fear

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232 How To Remain Composed As a Goalkeeper Under Pressure #BITESIZE

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231 The Relationship Between Self Esteem, Fun and Football Performance

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230 How To Help Perfectionists Recapture The Fun Part Of Their Sport #BITESIZE

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229 How To Help a Kid Who Isn't Enjoying Their Football

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228 Lessons From Overconfident Golfers That Can Help You Perform Better

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227 How To Improve Football Coaches And Player Relationships

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226 Helping Athletes Who Have Strong Physiological Responses To Fear #BITESIZE

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225 How To Offer Footballers Process Driven Feedback In Training

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224 How To Help Professional Rugby Players Perform Better Under Pressure #BITESIZE

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223 What Is Helpful And Unhelpful About Outcome Talk

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222 How To Help Athletes Who Freeze Under Pressure #BITESIZE

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221 How To Use Pre Performance Routines When The Pressure Is On #BITESIZE

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220 How To Build Mental Health Literacy In Your Organization #BITESIZE

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219 Golfers: How To Improve Your Putting With A Quiet Eye Approach

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218 Mental Toughness In Football: How To Deal With Criticism #BITESIZE

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217 How A Marginal Gains Approach Can Help You Perform Better #BITESIZE

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216 Self-Care: How to Prioritise Rest and Recovery #BITESIZE

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215 How Ice Swimming And Cold Immersion Can Help You Take Control Of Your Destiny

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214 How To Create Helpful Eating Habits To Benefit Your Sport Performance

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213 How To Set Yourself Up For Success In 2024?

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212 33 Ideas That Will Optimise Your Performance

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211 25 Ideas that will boost your Performance and Mental Health

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210 Why Breathwork is so Powerful

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209 How To Create Better Decision Makers On The Football Pitch

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208 How To Help Footballers Ensure That They Keep Their Foot On The Pedal When Their Team Is Winning

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207 And Breathe: How To Prevent, Manage and Master Difficult Conversations

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206 How To Help Footballers Play To Their Optimum In Big Matches

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205 Rehabilitation And Returning To Sport: How To Support Injured Athletes

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204 How To Help Footballers Manage Their Expectations

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203 How Boxing Can Help You Build Up Your Levels Of Resilience

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202 How To Help Footballers Who Struggle With Fear Of Failure

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201 Even The Mentally Tough Can Find Things A Struggle Without Self Awareness

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200 How To Help Footballers Who Put Too Much Pressure On Themselves

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199 Leadership: How To Mentally Prepare Yourself For Public Speaking

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198 How To Help Footballers Who Feel Flat On Match Days

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197 Mental Health: How To Overcome Executive Loneliness

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196 How To Help Footballers Who Are Sensitive To Criticism

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195 When Being Tough In Sport Can Negatively Impact On Your Mental Health #BITESIZE

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194 Footballers: How To Ensure Playing Out Of Position Is A Walk In The Park

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193 How to Help Footballers Get Out Of Their Own Way #BITESIZE

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192 Coach-Player Relations: How To Support Footballers Who Are Feeling Powerless

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191 Sports Psychology Basics: Be Proactive If You Want to Succeed #BITESIZE

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190 Attention Footballers! Are You Curious About the Mental Game?

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189 Goal Setting: How To Re-Energise Yourself To Aid Your Sport Performance

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188 Soccer Psychology: Helping Soccer Coaches Reflect On Their Approach #BITESIZE

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187 Task vs Ego Involvement: Do You Set Goals That Harm Your Performances?

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186 Intrinsic or Extrinsic Goals: Do You Set Goals That Harm Your Performances?

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185 Commitment: Leisure Athletes vs Performance Athletes #BITESIZE

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184 Peak Performance: Considerations For A Good Night's Sleep #BITESIZE

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183 Sports Coaching: How Being Compassionate Can Help Your Athletes Perform Better

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182 An Introduction to Mental Toughness and Psychological Safety #BITESIZE

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181 How to Improve Teamwork using a 4Cs Mental Toughness Approach

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180 How To Work With Team Units To Improve Culture In Teams

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179 Great Captains: 8 Mental Toughness Characteristics That Can Inspire Others

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178 Helping Leaders Recognise The Benefits Of Showing Vulnerability #BITESIZE

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177 How to Help Young People Develop a "Can Do" Attitude

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176 How To Help Enhance The Psychological Wellbeing Of Children In Sport #BITESIZE

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175 Can't Focus? Stop Mind Reading Others So That You Play To Your Strengths

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174 How To Deal With Criticism So That You Don't Take It So Personally #BITESIZE

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173 How To Deal With Other People In Professional Football #BITESIZE

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172 Working With Your Subconscious Mind To Achieve Better Results

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171 How To Raise Your Levels Of Vitality

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170 How To Help Perfectionists With Their Mental Approach

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169 How To Perform Under Pressure Close To Your Best #BITESIZE

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168 How To Navigate Youth Sports So That Children Enjoy The Experience More

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167 How To Manage Your Emotions To Improve Your Golf #BITESIZE

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166 How To Help Athletes and Coaches Reflect On Their Performances

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165 How To Master the Mental Challenges Goalkeeping Throws at You

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164 How To Bounce Back From Trauma To Thrive #BITESIZE

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163 How To Beat The Yips In Golf So That You Enjoy The Game More #BITESIZE

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162 How to Find a Flow State to Improve Your Performance

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161 How to Create a Culture of High Performance in Professional Rugby Union

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160 Golf Psychology: What You Can Expect and Why It Can Help You

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159 How To Prevent Burnout In Elite Professional Football To Maximise Performance

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158 How to Develop and Implement Mental Health Literacy Strategies

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157 What Is Sports Psychology and How It Can Help You

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156 There is Hope: How to Overcome Focal Dystonia

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155 How Do You Help a Young Athlete Get Better Organised?

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154 How Do I Go About Controlling The Controllables To Help My Sport Performance?

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153 Rugby Psychology: 25 Ways You Can Improve Your Performance

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152 30 Ways to Optimise Your Performance and Mental Health

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151 Football Psychology: 50 Ways You Can Improve Your Performance

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150 30 Ways You Can Improve Your Performance

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149 How Do I Help My Children Deal With Strong Emotions?

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148 How to Build Your Mental Toughness Through Skiing

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147 The Application of Mental Performance Coaching in Elite Professional Rugby

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146 What Is The Role Of A Sports Psychologist In Football?

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145 How Can I Help My Children Who Suffer With Nerves Before They Compete?

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144 Mental Strength: What You Can Learn About Resilience From The Special Forces

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143 How Your Money Mindset Influences Your Behaviour

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142 Is Striving for Perfection a Good Thing in Gymnastics?

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141 How to Help a Child Who Wants to Quit Sport

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140 How to Improve Your Mental Strength: Secrets from an Olympian

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139 Steve Beharall's Journey from Football Coach to CEO

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138 Why do the Mentally Tough see Sleep and Recovery as Important

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137 Mindfulness and ACT in Sport: Helping Athletes Perform Better

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136 Overcoming Tough Times in Professional Women's Football and Bouncing Back Stronger

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135 David Charlton Gets Grilled By Grant Henderson

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134 Observations: 3 Things That Stop You Achieving Your Goals

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133 Why Mental Toughness is Important: Lessons from Sport, Business and Loss

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132 How Lessons from the Great Game of Golf can Help You Win the, Equally Great, Game of Business

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131 How to Deal with Self-Criticism using Self Compassion – Final Part

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130 How to Deal with Self-Criticism using Self Compassion – Part 2

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129 How to Deal with Self-Criticism using Self Compassion – Part 1

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128 Can You Show Vulnerability and Be Mentally Tough? Yes!

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127 The Application of Mental Toughness Training in Elite Professional Rugby League

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126 How does Golf Psychology Work to Lower Your Scores on The Golf Course

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125 How is Psychology used in Professional Football Clubs

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124 Long Term Injuries: How to Confront Difficult Thoughts and Emotions

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123 Supporting People: What Can You Learn About Resilience From The Military

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122 Parental Support: Helping your Children get the Most from their Sporting Experiences

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121 What Is New? Developments in Mental Toughness Research and Practice

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120 Sport Coach Development: Helping Athletes Perform Better by Adapting How You Communicate

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119 An Applied Sport Psychologist Viewpoint: How to Become an Effective One

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118 How to Help Golfers Overcome their Mental Game Challenges

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117 How to Help Footballers Who Have Been Released – Part Two

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116 How to Help Footballers Who Have Been Released – Part One

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115 Mental Strength to Succeed: Learning Lessons from International Cricket

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114 Because I Can - How To Get Out Of Your Own Way

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113 The Relationship Between Mental Fitness, Mental Health and Mental Toughness

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112 How to Deal with Physical Insecurities as a Young Athlete

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111 How to be an Effective Sports Psychologist in Elite Professional Football

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110 How to Increase Mental Fortitude: Secrets from an Olympian

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109 How to Master the Mental Side of Horse Riding

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108 Observations: How to Stay on Top of Your Goals

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107 Observations: How Bad Do You Want It?

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106 Why is knowing my WHY important?

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105 Overcoming Psychological Challenges in Elite Professional Women's Football

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104 The Psychological Demands of Elite Professional Rugby

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103 45 Secrets to Sporting Success

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102 30 Mental Game Secrets to Improve Your Soccer

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101 25 Mental Game Secrets to Improve Your Golf

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100 50 Secrets for Optimal Performance and Positive Mental Health

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099 How to Deal with Overthinking on the Golf Course

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098 Do You Know Your Why?

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097 What Have You Learned From Last Year?

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096 Developing Mentally Strong Footballers

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095 David on Being Tough Vs Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin – Final Part

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094 How to Develop Mentally Strong Rugby Players

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093 How to Overcome Mental Blocks in Football

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092 ACT in Sport, Improving Performance through Mindfulness

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091 How to Transfer Your Cricket Skills to Matches

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090 Mental Toughness Compilation 007

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089 How To Transfer Your Golfing Skills To The Course

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088 How To Play As Well As You Practice

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087 From Professional Football and Goalkeeping to Physiotherapy

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086 Observations: How to Learn from Setbacks

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085 David on Being Tough Vs Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin – Part 4

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084 Mental Toughness and The Leaders Mind

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083 Life Lessons from a World Champion Boxer

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082 Supporting Children in Sport with Positive Feedback

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081 Mental Toughness in Combat Sports

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080 Mental Toughness Compilation 006

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079 David on Being Tough Vs Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin – Part 3

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078 How to Gain an Edge

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077 Before, During and After Professional Football

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076 Mastering the Mental Game of Refereeing

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075 How to Rebuild Your Identity

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074 How Can I Make My Child Feel Confident?

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073 David on Being Tough Vs Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin – Part 2

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072 Mastering the Mental Side of Cricket

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071 Mastering the Mental Side of Tennis

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070 Mental Toughness Compilation 005

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069 David on Being Tough Vs Being Comfortable in Your Own Skin – Part 1

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068 How Hard Is It To Become A Tour Professional Golfer?

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067 Supporting Children to Transfer their Skills from Training to Competition

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066 Mental Health and Resilience: Lessons from an Olympic Medalist

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065 Encouraging Mentally Healthy Cultures in Sport

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064 How to Support Young Footballers

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063 7 Reasons Why Golfers Should Visualise

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062 Mastering The Mental Side Of Golf

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061 Why You Should Build Your Mental Toughness

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060 Encouraging Mentally Healthy Environments

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059 What does Success Mean to You?

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058 Are You Your Biggest Enemy on The Golf Course?

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057 How to Cultivate Mental Toughness and a Growth Mindset in Rugby

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056 How Committed Are You?

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055 How to Develop Mental Strength in Young Athletes

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054 The Importance of Effective Communication in Sports

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053 Why Mental Toughness is NOT a Male Macho Trait

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052 Getting Out of Your Own Way on The Golf Course

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051 Why Talking Matters

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050 Mental Strength Does Not Guarantee Success

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049 How Does Sport Psychology In Elite Football Academies Help

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048 How To Build Mental Toughness Through Powerlifting

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047 Mental Game Tips For Putting

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046 Why Snowboarding is a Metaphor for Life

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045 Building Confidence in Your Putting

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044 Observations: How to Assert Yourself

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043 Thriving in Professional Football

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042 Characteristics of High Performance Athletes

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041 How to Develop Interpersonal Confidence

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040 Mental Toughness Compilation 004

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039 How to Develop Fearless Athletes

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038 Playing Professional Women's Rugby

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037 World Class Thinking, World Class Behaviour

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036 How To Improve Your Intensity When Training And Competing

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035 Thrive, Don't Just Survive 2021

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034 David Charlton Gets Grilled By Nathan Sherratt

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033 Mental Toughness Lessons From A World Champion

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032 How Can I Be Grateful For The Little Things

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031 How to Turn Your Life Around and Inspire Others

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030 Mental Toughness Compilation 003

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029 How to Play Professional Rugby with Confidence

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028 Why is Mental Toughness Important?

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027 How to Develop Mental Toughness with Young Footballers

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026 Observations: How To Set a Monthly Goal?

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025 How the Mentally Tough Deal with Lockdown

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024 Mental Toughness in Professional Football

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023 Observations: Self Confidence in Sport

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022 How to Feel More Confident

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021 How to Reach Your Full Potential

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020 Mental Toughness Compilation 002

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019 5000 Consecutive Days Running and Counting

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018 From Professional Footballer to Alcoholism Consultant

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017 How to Play Fearless Golf

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016 Observations: Learning From Your Mistakes

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015 Essential Elements of Rest and Recovery

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014 Observations: Improving Your Mental Preparation

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013 How to Stay Present like a Major Champion

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012 The Yips, High Speed Crashes and Trauma in Sport: There is Hope for Athletes

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011 Mental Toughness, Mental Health and High Performance Uncovered

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010 Mental Toughness Compilation 001

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009 Play Better Golf Under Pressure

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008 Academy Football, Professional Football, Injuries and Early Retirement

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007 How Elite Athletes Mentally Prepare

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006 Observations: Be Honest with Yourself

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005 Observations: The Art of Learning

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004 Life on the European Tour

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003 Developing a Premier League Mindset

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002 How to Deal with Adversity

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001 The Importance of Mental Toughness

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000 About Demystifying Mental Toughness