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Mental Toughness for Basketball

Intro | 177 Mental Toughness Secrets | Competitive Advantage | Other Tools

Dr. Alan Goldberg has put together The Competitive Advantage web site. It has free mental training resources for several sports, including an article devoted to mental toughness for basketball. The site has several free resources for coaches, players, and parents. Dr. Goldberg was the sport psychology consultant to the 1999 NCAA Men’s Basketball National Champion University of Connecticut Huskies, and the 2000 men’s soccer NCAA champions.

Some other great FREE resource sections on the site are:

  1. Getting Mentally Tough is an introduction to Mental Toughness with a list of some of the mental skills involved.

  2. Mental Toughness Quote of the Week & Quote Archive has a comment for each quote to provide insights, lessons, practical applications from the quote.

  3. The Parents/Coaches Guides has some very valuable free articles for coaches including Peak Performance Under Stress, Getting Parents to Work With You-Not Against You, There is a great article for parents as well: 13 Steps to Being a Winning Parent. There are several other great resources on that page too!

  4. There is a free mental toughness newsletter that you can sign up for as well as an archive of past newsletters.

This site is a great source of mental toughness information!

















 
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