Team Sports Psychology

Mental Training For Sports Teams

At Champions Mindset, we offer two fundamental training programs for a wide variety of Sports teams to enable their athletes to get into and stay in the Zone more consistently and for longer periods of time.

These programs are designed to improve their overall Mental Toughness. To perform on “Demand under Pressure,” athletes need to learn and develop the right attitude and mindset that will allow them to create the right focus and feeling so that their innate abilities and skills will shine through when they need them the most.

Our mental training sessions are typically 60 to 90 minutes in length, and they can be conducted at our office, or we can come to your facility. We recommend a minimum of one session a month as our sessions progressively build on the fundamentals so that the young men and women on your team can take charge of their confidence, focus, resiliency, mindset, and behavior.

Scientifically Backed Methods

At Champions Mindset Inc. we are always looking for the most advanced cutting-edge technologies to improve our athletes’ overall mental well-being, awareness and performance. Our facility has a High-Performance Centre that uses sensory equipment that systematically and progressively improves their vision, memory, speed of thought and cognitive abilities. The Perceptual-Cognitive Training Program aims at improving the relationship between the eyes, the brain and the body, resulting in the ability to take in more information to the brain at a quicker rate, have the brain process that information faster and more effectively, resulting in the body’s ability to output quicker and more effective responses under stress and pressure.

Gain The Ability To: SEE, READ, and REACT

The better you see, recognize and exploit information, the more successful you are as an elite athlete. This is measured, developed, and trained via a number of Brain-Vision Training Stations that have specific exercises that target and enhance their:

Decision making
Brain processing speed
Spatial awareness
Mental stamina and endurance
Peripheral awareness
Attention (selective, distributed, sustained, dynamic, etc.)
Focus and tracking
Visual Skills (Convergence, Divergence, Depth Perception, Alignment, Recognition, Tracking, etc.)
Anticipation
Target Accuracy
Eye-Hand Coordination
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Reaction and overall response time
Situational awareness
Cognitive skills (executive functioning, working memory, auditory processing, response control, etc.)

All of these skills can be quickly developed at our office and through our home training program, which in turn will develop their Sports IQ and overall Confidence on and off the playing surface. At the beginning of the season, we can establish a Baseline to determine their strengths and weaknesses with regard to these skill sets so that our clients can see and process more, allowing them to remain safer and possibly aid in the prevention of sustaining a concussion. This type of training can also assist in the treatment and return to play protocol for athletes who have suffered a concussion. These sophisticated training tools can objectively tell where a client is, which in turn, is great for the client because they get to see and understand how they are doing in the process of recovering from their injury.

This program is suitable for all ages and skill levels. Champions Mindset offers age and skill-appropriate training for youth, middle school, high school, university, and professional players. We offer year-round training programs that are based on years of research, experience, and scientific data.

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There are 5 Areas of Peak Performance that enable an athlete and a team to be at their best.

As illustrated below, each quadrant must be fully developed if the athlete wants to reach their ultimate athletic performance goal/dream. The Hub of the Wheel (Lifestyle Habits) is, first and foremost, the most critical element that needs to be addressed because this allows the athlete and team to maximize their training in each of the performance quadrants. Most athletes often have a good understanding and awareness regarding training their physical and technical skills. However, they have very little knowledge and practical things that they can do to develop their Mental Toughness.

“It’s Amazing What You Can Accomplish If You Do Not Care Who Gets The Credit.”

– U.S. President Harry S. Truman

At Champions Mindset, we provide sports teams with the critical mental skills that allow each member and the team as a collective whole to understand themselves better and develop the self-awareness that promotes cohesion, drive, energy, belief, and sacrifice to not only reach their individual goals but the overall collective mission set forth by the administration, coaching staff, trainers, and the players on the team. Over the past three decades as a player, technical coach, and mental coach at the amateur, collegiate, and professional levels I have discovered the seven core mental skills that need to be developed and nurtured if an athlete and team wants to reach the pinnacle of their sport:

Concentration
Composure
Confidence
Commitment
Consistency
Coachability
Compassion

The Key to Success: “Success Leaves Clues”

If you examine the best athletes and teams in the world and the culture that they have developed within their organization, you will quickly realize that “Success Leaves Clues.” Over the course of a season, John will conduct mental training workshops for your team on each of the 7 C’s of Mental Toughness and provide the practical tools and exercises that foster Emotional Intelligence and Mental Resilience so that each team member will grow not only as an athlete but enhance personal growth and development.

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Train Mental Strength

These Mental Skills workshops are ultimately designed to create a “Mindful Athlete.” Team members learn how to address thoughts, emotions, senses, body awareness, fear, and pressure in a much more productive manner. Athletes who have a better awareness of their thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, and the external environment are better equipped to respond to their environment rather than overreacting to external stimuli (e.g., poor officiating, bad weather conditions, hostile crowds, trash-talking, etc.). The mental training sessions help each team member to truly understand that the mental game determines the situation, not the other way around.

Champions Mindset Inc.
Offers Direct Billing!

Our sessions may be covered by your health insurance plan or employee health benefits. Contact us or your health insurance provider about coverage.

Learn Valuable Skills

The activities and techniques learned and practiced in the workshops will:

Reduce the impact that stress and anxiety have on their performance
Boost their confidence and mental toughness
Increase their ability to ‘get into the zone’
Calm their mind to gain an advantage on and off the athletic field
Gain more control and awareness of their actions and emotions
Enhance Performance
Increase Sport satisfaction