Sports Coaching - NLP & Sports Performance
NLP & Sports Performance Coaching
Strong mental state will gain the edge in competition and NLP is one of
the most powerful ‘mind’ tools within the modern world of sport.
“2008 was, without a doubt my most successful competitive year. I met all of my personal goals but more importantly I had a whole lot of fun! Could not recommend Kim highly enough.”
Scott Ramsay
NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is widely used with elite athletes in New Zealand and America, significantly during the preparation and competition of the Athens Olympics 2004. NLP is the study of the mind and nervous system, how individuals think. It is how individuals form their language, create thought patterns and set their goals. Understanding individuals and working with them with NLP enables them to reprogramme negative thoughts for positive ones, enhance their confidence, anchor positive skills and improve their competition in sport.
Visualisation is a tool which has been used effectively in the world of sports for many years. Mental rehearsal is used with a variety of NLP tools to enhance the performance. Many athletes use basic forms of visualisation but with a little more understanding they could have greater results and effects. Mental rehearsal works because the unconscious mind cannot distinguish between a real performance and an imagined one. When an athlete imagines the perfect performance it will fire the neural pathways that are actually used when the skill is performed in reality. This makes the exact, perfect performance easier to obtain as the muscles have already performed micro movements of the actual performance.
We offer athletes, teams and squads NLP Coaching on an individual or team basis – some of the most effective areas we work with are shown below:
- Enhance Your Confidence & Focus
- Improve Your Competition Mind & Success
- Improve Your Team Work and Communication
- Learn how to cope effectively with injury or poor performance
- Understanding Your Fears & Start to conquer them
- And much more……..