In “Sessions with Doc,” Dr. Patrick Cohn answers your sports psychology and mental training questions about Building Mental Strength in Hockey. Visit Peaksports.com and click on contact us to submit your question for Dr. Cohn to answer in his mental game videocast or podcast.
Do you focus on everything that could go wrong in a competition and then stress out and lose your confidence?
In my video this week I’m going to talk about how you can stay more mentally tough prior to a game or leading up to a competition and not catastrophize.
Here’s the question Dr. Patrick Cohn answers this week:
CHRIS ASKS: “I’m a ice hockey goalie and I keep recalling the times when I did not prepare well and I got benched. Ironically, I’m doing the same thing right now before I got benched before. I think the competition is too good, I can’t beat them. When I go on the ice I can’t play my best. I lose the game before it starts. I predict that I’m going to be out-shot, or I’m going to blow it because my team is not outmatching the other team. How can I have more mental strength before games?”
Watch the video below to hear what Dr. Cohn has to say about Building Mental Strength in Hockey.
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Dr. Patrick Cohn helps athletes and teams worldwide from a variety of sport backgrounds improve mental toughness for sports. He’s helped junior to NHL hockey players improve their mental toughness.
As the president and founder of Peak Performance Sports (Orlando, Florida), Dr. Cohn is dedicated to instilling confidence, composure, focus, and teaching powerful mental game skills to help athletes, teams and corporate professionals perform at maximum levels.
Dr. Cohn also teaches sports parents and coaches of young athletes how to help athletes achieve peak performance through sports psychology training. In addition, he teaches his mental game coaching system, the MGCP certification program (Mental Game Coaching Professional) to qualified coaches, trainers, and sports psychology students in training.