Watch Peaksports mental game videos for football players, coaches, and sports parents.
Get Focused for Each Play Do you (or your athletes) struggle with feeling prepared before each play? Is your mental approach to each play inconsistent? Do you dwell on the last play or judge your performance each play? The reason why you feel a lack of focus or consistency is probably due to your preplay … Read More
Coping with Mistakes Do you (or your athletes) get caught up in mistakes, leading to more mental errors on the football field? Most athletes swill dwell on mistakes because of their high expectations about performance. The think making a mistake is unacceptable and they tend to get stuck on the mistake and can’t move on. … Read More
How to Play Instinctively Do you (or your athletes) focus too much on the details of playing the game? Do you over think what play you should run or become indecisive? That means you are not trusting in your skills. So, how do you play athletically on the football field? You must embrace two different … Read More
Proactive Confidence for Football Players Do you (or your athletes) wait until the first series or few plays of the game to decide how confident you are feeling that game? We call that reactive confidence or leaving confidence to chance. An important skill for football players is to have proactive confidence. In order to have … Read More
Overcome Distractions During Games Do you become distracted by external stuff when on the football field, such as by fans, the sidelines, coaches, or other people? Many things compete for your attention during games–some of these are important and others are not. Most football players can let go of these “external” distractions when they play. … Read More
Improve Mental Toughness Learn the most important mental toughness skills for football players with sports psychology for football… What is mental toughness for football players and what does it include? Most football players assume that mental toughness is about being physically tough. When you get knocked down, you jump right back up, correct? Not exactly. … Read More