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Controlling The Negative Voice In Your Head

Craig Sigl2020-10-14T04:34:32+08:00

As an athlete, performer or competitor, quieting that negative and destructive voice in your head can hinder your ability to perform. This is one of the major mental blocks. I operate under this principle: Performance = Potential - Interference. Meaning you will play, compete or perform your best when you have no interference or mental/emotional blocks. CLEARING MENTAL BLOCK To be able to clear this mental block, the negative mind, it is extremely helpful to understand it first and then you can take it apart. Let me explain your solution to this problem using my 4-step R.A.C.E. Formula for mental [...]

Controlling The Negative Voice In Your HeadCraig Sigl2020-10-14T04:34:32+08:00

How To Overcome Fear In Sports

Craig Sigl2017-09-28T19:16:48+08:00

Every athlete, performer or competitor knows that there is always room for improvement. You can never completely master any sport or competition. Yes, you have those moments when you are, what I call, in the flow or zone where you are performing your best and you know it. Of course you want more of that. I’m with you and that’s what mental toughness is all about. I teach and operate under this principle: Performance = Potential - Interference This means that you will play, compete or perform your best when you have no interference or mental/emotional blocks. Boost Confidence To Overcome Anxiety [...]

How To Overcome Fear In SportsCraig Sigl2017-09-28T19:16:48+08:00

3 Tips For Creating Sports Confidence

Craig Sigl2020-09-27T20:00:43+08:00

How to Build Confidence as a Young Athlete, by James Leath First of all, let’s decide something right now. You are not competing with anyone else, ever again. Starting now, your primary strategy is to make everyone else around you play at your level. You won’t make excuses; you’ll cause others to make them. You won’t play down to an opponent’s level; it’s up to them to play at yours. You won’t stop until the final whistle blows; you’ll go all out until the time runs out. If you can commit to that mentality, in practice and in competition, please keep [...]

3 Tips For Creating Sports ConfidenceCraig Sigl2020-09-27T20:00:43+08:00

3 Best Exercises for Off Ice Hockey Training

Craig Sigl2015-04-06T01:57:03+08:00

Coach Nye Talks Hockey… The ‘How To’ to better development of a hockey player can be very complicated. There are so many off ice hockey instructions and exercises out there we wonder who to believe. When I am speaking to young hockey players I always suggest keeping things to the basic movements in hockey which include certain muscle groups. You can't go wrong with these: The muscle groups I am speaking of are, stomach (core), quads (major muscle in the leg) and your hamstrings. Of course there are minor muscles that are used as well which is explained in each of [...]

3 Best Exercises for Off Ice Hockey TrainingCraig Sigl2015-04-06T01:57:03+08:00

How Brandon Bostick & Athletes Recover From A Choke

Craig Sigl2015-03-10T16:49:38+08:00

This past weekend, in American Football, we saw an amazing comeback by the Seattle Seahawks over the Greenbay Packers. It was almost miraculous. With the game having only 5 minutes to go, I actually told my friend that the game is over and the Seahawks have lost. (We are in Seattle so it was quite sad at the time). I said that I thought that maybe they had a 2% chance of coming back. The Seahawks did come back and win but, in large part, due to a fumbled on-side kick by a member of the Packers, Brandon Bostick, that opened [...]

How Brandon Bostick & Athletes Recover From A ChokeCraig Sigl2015-03-10T16:49:38+08:00

How To Build Confidence In Young Athletes

Craig Sigl2016-01-14T11:53:33+08:00

You’re a coach (or a parent) interested in developing a strong mental game for your athletes, right? First off, let’s define that so we know what we’re talking about here. I define it as: Focused, Confident, Determined and Resilient, especially under pressure. You also know that if your athletes were to play with more of that, then they would bring their “A” game to competition like you get to see in practice regularly. If you’ve coached athletes for any significant amount of time, you know that performance anxiety and fear of failure are a huge obstacle to playing their best. What [...]

How To Build Confidence In Young AthletesCraig Sigl2016-01-14T11:53:33+08:00

3 Reasons Your Athletes Should Practice Active Visualization

Craig Sigl2017-10-18T22:54:10+08:00

I’ve written extensively on “How” to visualize and the actual steps. This is actually the easy part. The hard part is developing the discipline to do it on a regular basis. In my work with athletes, I’ve discovered that those who don’t do it much, it’s because they are basically not convinced enough that it will actually improve performance. They are convinced that physical practice, training and drills will improve their performance and so they do that. Think about this for a minute. You are driving a car to go somewhere and you get a flat tire. The car will not [...]

3 Reasons Your Athletes Should Practice Active VisualizationCraig Sigl2017-10-18T22:54:10+08:00

Helping Your Child With Sports: 3 Tips For Parents

Craig Sigl2016-01-14T12:19:19+08:00

What can you do, as a parent to help your child build confidence in sports? All parents want our children to have more confidence and lack of it is the second most common issue parents bring their kids to me for. (The first is fear of failure). When I work with young athletes in my office, I often have one or both parents with us for the first part of the session. I do this to find out with our interactions how much of an influence the parent has on the young athlete. Sometimes I get the helicopter sports parent who [...]

Helping Your Child With Sports: 3 Tips For ParentsCraig Sigl2016-01-14T12:19:19+08:00

The Key To Building Confidence For Sports

Craig Sigl2017-12-03T08:01:02+08:00

In this video below, Craig teaches the most powerful key to opening the door to your hidden natural confidence. Confidence is a thought that something can be accomplished. Craig reminds athletes that you have to clear the mental baggage patterns that prevent athletes in maximizing their confidence thus, athletes should clear underlying limiting/ destructive beliefs at the power (subconscious) level of the mind. You will find out that a simple belief acts like a virus in a computer and before you know it, your files are all gone. I’ve written and taught athletes and teams a lot about how to gain [...]

The Key To Building Confidence For SportsCraig Sigl2017-12-03T08:01:02+08:00

Believing You Can Win Makes All The Difference

Craig Sigl2016-01-14T12:24:48+08:00

"Mental Toughness Academy" for youth sports. CLICK HERE for confidence for kids. "How To Be A Fearless Competitor"CLICK HERE Next-level training for adult athletes Transcript I once worked with a world class athlete who had competed at and then fallen out of the pro ranks and was trying to get back in. In fact, she had been going against the top players in the world in her sport 2 different times in her life. Both of those periods were for only a year or so and then her performances dropped and she was out. Everybody told her [...]

Believing You Can Win Makes All The DifferenceCraig Sigl2016-01-14T12:24:48+08:00