mental training

Gymnastics season is here. Are you working on your mental skills too?

December 19, 2016 by Robert Andrews Leave a Comment

Gymnastics season has started and my phone, email, and text are already lighting up with inquiries from all over the U.S., Canada, Australia, Great Britain, France, and other countries. Gymnasts are looking for help with their mental approach to gymnastics. Parents, coaches, and gymnasts are searching for answers to anxiety, fear, lack of focus, mental blocks, and many other stressors that affect performance.

Facing Stress and Pressure

For many the pressure to move up a level, add skills, deal with new coaching styles, college recruiting pressures, and return from injury are causing too much stress and pressure.

When the mind focuses too much on these distractions and not enough on just hitting routines problems can occur.

Working With the Best Gymnasts in the World

I wanted to re-publish an ESPN article that came out before the Olympic games. The article focuses on my work with 2016
Olympic Team, All Around, Floor, and Vault Champion Simone Biles, and team Gold and Beam Silver Medalist Laurie Hernandez.

ESPN’s Alyssa Roenigk did a remarkable job of capturing the essence of the mental/life training they embraced to reach the top of their sport.

Gymnasts, you can have access to the same mental training program that these two, and other Olympic Champions and Medalist embrace to reach their status as the best in the world.

Contact me for individual and team sessions. Yes, I travel!

Champions Mental Edge Video Series

Or check out the Champions Mental Edge mental training program. This ten part video series comes in downloadable format so you can have access to this state of the art program on your phone, tablet, or computer. It contains information for athletes, parents, and coaches on mental skills, peak performance, personality and performance, overcoming mental blocks, how stress and pressure impact performance, parenting athletes, championship culture, addressing the mental and emotional impact of sports injuries, and so much more.

Are ready to reach the goals you have set for your gymnastics season?

Step up! Take action now! Your gymnastics will never be the same!

Texas Monthly on Simone Biles and Her Mental Training Expert Robert Andrews

July 5, 2016 by Robert Andrews 2 Comments

Great article in Texas Monthly Magazine about Simone Biles, her amazing parents Ron and Nellie Biles, her world class coach Aimme Boorman, and the work Simone and I have done over the last three and a half years to help her prepare mentally and emotionally for 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

Early on a gray morning in April, dozens of elite athletes—rangy pole vaulters, wrestlers with bulbous ears, beach volleyball players with baked-in tans—hugged themselves for warmth on the windswept plaza outside the Today Show studio, in New York’s Rockefeller Center. In exactly a hundred days, they would march into Rio de Janeiro’s Maracanã Stadium as part of the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics. But on this chilly morning, as they waited to appear on live television, the beaches of Brazil seemed a long way off.

“I guess this isn’t Rio,” joked a middle-aged spectator wearing a vest festooned with hundreds of commemorative pins from previous Olympics. Several of the athletes shot glares in his direction.

Meanwhile, the biggest stars from the most popular summer sports were standing apart from the other athletes on a sand volleyball court that had been set up for the occasion. Eleven-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte, the swimmer whose rivalry with Michael Phelps in the 2012 London Olympics electrified audiences, chatted with Gabby Douglas, the peppy gymnast who led the 2012 women’s gymnastics team, nicknamed the Fierce Five*, to gold. Read more

ISP Sponsors Texas Invitational Volleyball Tournament

August 16, 2015 by Robert Andrews Leave a Comment

We are proud to announce that The Institute of Sports Performance was a sponsor of The 2015 Texas Invitational Volleyball Tournament.

This is one of the largest volleyball tournaments in the country. This year there were 88 teams from all over Texas.

Being a part of this tournament puts our brand in front of over 1, 300 volleyball players, their coaches, and parents. This broadens our ability to help athletes needing support with their mental and emotional recovery as they return from serious sports related injuries. We are also able to reach more parents, coaches, and organizations with cutting edge mental training, team building, and development of sports culture.

What a Final!

The Coppell Cowgirls won the final in a remarkable three set match over local power Clear Creek. The level of play was spectacular. All areas of play excelled with great passing and defense, setting, and powerful hitting.

Congratulations to Pearland Coach John Turner, Dawson Coach Jason Karim, their players and parents for putting on a well run tournament. We look forward to being a part of The Texas Invitational next year.

Robert B. Andrews @mindsports·

14 Sep

To integrate training of the mind and mastery of the athletes emotions, the athlete, coaches and parents must understand that it is a process. Receiving, applying, and integrating concepts, tools and skills takes time. This is not a one session fix.

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9 Sep

Overthinking in sports occurs when a team or player stops trusting their training and talent. Usually in response to stress and pressure. #Longhorns

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8 Sep

Please take time to read and share this article on learning styles. I explain how coaches sometimes empower and sometimes short circuit their athletes ability to learn...

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1 Sep

A timely and informative podcast interview on my work in the sport of gymnastics, gymnastics culture, parenting gymnasts, and much more. Please take the time to listen and share.