Now that we know the basis and history of the exciting field of sport and performance psychology, let me tell you why I chose the career field. Let’s time travel back to the year 2013. I was a freshman in high school and was at the basketball’s team summer tournament. Two days in, and I tear up my ...
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In the grand scheme of things, the psychology of sports performance is fairly new. Early roots can be tracked to 1898. Norman Triplett was studying competitive and solo cyclists. He found that those competing had better times compared to the soloists. Edward W. Scripture was a psychologist at Yale ...
READ MORE +Ups and downs are a given when it comes to our motivation levels. According to a relatively recent study conducted in the United States, nearly two thirds of adults who make New Year’s resolutions, set themselves fitness goals, and a whopping 73% of those eventually give up on them. Whatever the ...
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