sport performance anxiety

I get asked all the time, the question how to eliminate anxiety in sports and rightfully so.  This is a problem experience by both amateur and professional athletes all the time.

It is an important issue to address, because it is not only holds kids in sports back from being successful, but also from the enjoyment of playing their sport.  Read on for the solution.

90% of all athletes experience anxiety in sports. The old way is to distract or find some willpower to push through the negative emotions. The new way is to MASTER your emotional responses and own them. This video gives you the only permanent solution to eliminate anxiety in sports. Everything else is temporary!

Distracting yourself or just using willpower is the “old” way of dealing with performance anxiety.

What if athletes stopped fearing their emotions and learned to master them instead? You got it, Fear goes away…and so does performance anxiety!

Join Craig for a short video that describes the “new” way that teaches you how to master your emotions…

So How Do You Eliminate Anxiety In Sports?

sport performance anxiety90% of all athletes, young and old, experience some form of performance anxiety that holds them back from playing their best. Performance anxiety is simply FEAR.  It  is what causes all the negative self-talk, weak discipline, and nervousness that destroys performances.

What athletes are most afraid of is things like: failing, making a mistake, or choking in competition.

When I ask them what is so bad about those things? I usually get responses like, “I’ll feel like a failure, I’ll be disappointed or I’ll be embarrassed.” All of these are just emotions and if we keep breaking it down further, we learn that emotions are nothing more than chemicals our body makes.

What if athletes stopped fearing their emotions and learned to master them instead? You got it, Fear goes away…and so does performance anxiety. This is very do-able.

sport performance anxietyYou can start with an attitude about failing or making mistakes that says: “Bring it all on, I can handle anything.”

Here’s an example of a 15 year old athlete that has done just that.

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I’m Craig Sigl, the mental toughness trainer