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Social Media and Athletes

Though you may not realize it yet, your performance during training and games are being negatively impacted by your social media use. In particular, there are three ways that social media reduces athletes' ability to perform to their full potential. Dive into what those are and what you can do to counteract them.

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Turning Obstacles into Opportunities

Sports are littered with obstacles – from small to big and from self-made to externally imposed. Obstacles may be frustrating in the moment, but those that are overcome become some of the highlights in an athletic career. While challenges are normal, they only become incredibly beneficial in making progress as an athlete if you know how to face them and work through them. Learn a simple and effective strategy to turn obstacles into opportunities.

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Riding the Waves in Performance

Performance and improvement can sometimes feel like a linear process. You put in the time and effort consistently as a means to get closer to achieving your goals. It can be easy to get caught up demanding greatness from yourself based on the performance you last had. However, this dynamic can often hinder, instead of enhance, your performance. You are not as good or bad as our last game or training session. You operate within a range of performance.

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The 10 Essentials: Essential #7

The seventh Essential is learning to Handle Adversity. Adversity is actually one of the things that makes us love sport! It’s always thrilling to watch or be the athlete that overcomes adversity, or makes a comeback. It’s why we always cheer on the Cinderella story in sport. The greatest athletes are not the ones that never fail, they are the ones that recover the fastest.

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The 10 Essentials: Essential #6

The sixth Essential is learning to Adjust and Be Flexible. No matter the sport, every athlete has a game plan, a strategy for how they are going to approach their competition so that they can achieve their goals. Just like you have a game plan for what you are going to do on the field or court, you need to have a mental plan for how you are going to deal with the mental challenges that may come up.

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