What Can Sport Psychology Do for Me? - Sport psychology may be the thin line between your team and club winning or losing. Sport psychology benefits the individual athletes, teams, parents, and coaches. Have you ever watched a player develop into a star, only to watch them suddenly reject the game and burnout? - Tory Robinson
Parental Support - Parents are the most influential supporters of youth sports. You register your kids for sports, pay for their participation fees, transport them to and from practices weekly, and cheer them on during competition. Thank you for all that you do. - Tory Robinson
Motor Skills - Motor Learning and the acquisition of skills is an old concept that is receiving a fresh set of eyes reviewing it. In an article by Ajemian, D’Ausilio, Mooreman, & Bizzi, (2010) they investigate and theorize that athletes at the professional level need to recalibrate their sensorimotor network through warm up practice to fine tune it before competition. - Tory Robinson
Superstar? - Genetics: Nature provides the elite athlete with muscles fibers, bone structure, neural synapses, and brain support to perform in ways that the average person cannot. Natural ability in itself does not make an athlete great but it is a solid foundation to build on. - Tory Robinson
Coach Myths - Myth #1: Exercise for Punishment: Under this myth, coaches will use conditioning or exercise as a form of punishment. As an ex-athlete, I have been on the receiving end of coaches that use exercise for punishment. - Tory Robinson
Team Cohesion - Cohesion and performance has been shown to be a bag of mixed results. Cohesion by definition is a feeling of interpersonal attraction and a sense of belonging to a group. - Tory Robinson
Luxury v Commodity - I would like to shed some light on your decision making processes. Ask yourself this question; does your life revolve around the latest gadgets and fashions, do you do a better job keeping up with the Comb’s than you do with yourself. - Tory Robinson
Lifestyle - This is your first introduction into my world of quiet chaos. I am beginning a revolution, a movement toward progress. The movement is built of the foundation of adding “life” to your lifestyle. - Tory Robinson
How Strong is Your Backbone? - Let’s talk about ethics. Everyone would like to believe that they are ethical and that we live in an ethical world. Ethics by definition is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. - Tory Robinson
Talent Development: Building a Soccer Empire - “the beautiful game” is slowly becoming the victim of commercialism in the U.S. The model for current success, often excludes talent based on economic status and is losing its beauty by becoming politically complex - Tory Robinson
