Mental Preparation

What is Mental Performance?

The Canadian Association Sport Psychology defines applied sport psychology as the development of mental abilities, cognitive and emotional skills, techniques, attitudes, perspective, and processes that lead to improved performance and positive personal development. Mental performance is a lot like physical preparation. You must know your current level, strengths and weaknesses, and reinforce them daily according to the unique objectives and experiences of individuals and teams.

Our consultant works both with individuals and in groups on skills such as managing stress, emotions, thoughts and pressure, on resilience, self-confidence, team cohesion and leadership.

Mental skills are not a substitute for training (physical, technical, and tactical), sleep or nutrition, it allows the individual to acquire complementary tools.

Ultimately, all the planning and work done before and during the season allows athletes and coaches to put in place strategies to get to know each other better, to overcome obstacles and demonstrate their physical capacity through an optimal mental state.

Who can use this service?

Everybody! We need to understand that mental performance is not just for those with psychological challenges or for elite athletes. Mental performance can be proactive and reactive for anyone who wants to improve their mental capacity and take their game to the next level. We help great athletes/coaches to be great athletes/coaches, and great athletes/coaches to be elite athletes/coaches.

Am I too young or too old?

Never! The brain is like a muscle that never stops evolving and adapting. As with training in the gym, it is up to us to decide at what level we want to train our brain and help it adapt in such a way that it promotes the achievement of objectives. Each individual is unique, and that is why the preparation is not the same for each individual, there is no algorithm or recipe to follow. It is our job to adapt our interventions and strategies to the needs and attributes of each.