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 *Listen to Music Before Competing?*

Does listening to music before a swimming race improve actual race performance?
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[Search terms: sport psychology tips,sport psych,sport psych and music

 *Coping With the Death of a Student*

Coping strategies that teachers, students and school administrators can take in response to the death of a student.
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[Search terms: student death, student mortality,childhood death,death of student]

 *Blanket Balance Icebreaker*

A cooperative, icebreaker game in which participants must find a way to stand on a progressively smaller space.
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 *High-Five Leader Assignment*

How to use a bench player to fire up teammates during good plays.
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[Search terms: basketball motivation,basketball ideas,coaching ideas,coaching tips,team spirti

 *Anxiety: Localized Relaxation*

A method for addressing the “butterflies in the stomach” that often occur before competitions.
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[Search terms: nerves, nervousness,jitters,sport psychology techniques, anxiety]

 *Group Exercise & Pain Threshold*

Your pain threshold can be twice as high when exercising in a group versus exercising solo.
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[Search terms: exercise motivation, exercise adherence, exercise and discomfort]

 *Workout Goals Before Practice*

Improve practice quality by having your athletes write down their workout goal before the beginning of every session.
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[Search terms: sport psychology tips,practice tips,sport psych]

 *Parent Benefits From Kids' Sports*

Parents who sit at practices and games (and possibly volunteer) may be getting as much out of the experience as their athlete-children.
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[Search terms: parents and sport,sports parents,parents and children's sport]

 *Icebreaker: Broken Pipe Relay*

A cooperative game and icebreaker in which teammates work together to move a ball-bearing down a segmented length of plastic pipe.
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 *How to Reach Performance Mode*

A step-by-step coaching strategy for helping athletes achieve the ideal mental state for optimal performance. Includes a reproducible handout. Hyperlink from pdf back to web-version of the article
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[Search terms: sport psychology tips,mental training,psyching up,mental preparation,peaking,peak]

 *Icebreaker - Name Game*

An icebreaker activity that combines a warm-up with an introduction to the names of classmates.
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 *Optimal Arousal - How to Find*

How to find out how much an athlete should “psych up” for competitions.
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[Search terms: psyching,mental arousal,peaking,mental training,sport psychology,sport psych]

 *Congratulations-Improve Quality*

Make your praise more effective by providing specific rather than general feedback.
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[Search terms: congratulation quality,positive reinforcement,praise]

 *Email Motivation Vs Phone Calls*

According to a recent study, e-mail messages are more effective than telephone calls for increasing long-term motivation.
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[Search terms: emails,motivation,motivators]

 *Three Anxiety Reduction Techniques*

Three techniques for decreasing athletes’ pre-competition anxiety, including Paradoxical Intention, Nervous Time & Objectivity.
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[Search terms: sport psychology,pre-competition anxiety, nervousness]