Train The Brain And Perform Your Best

What was the point in your life or professional development that brought you to be a performance coach?Keeperstop Goalkeeper Show.

Mental performance for athletes and goalkeepers:

Every athlete, goalkeeper, and parent supporting the development of a youth player should watch and listen to this video. 

Coach Ryan Carr is a Mental Performance Coach at the esteemed Barton Health training elite athletes.

Coach Carr Was a Division 1 standout goalkeeper for University Hartford.

Strength and conditioning certified, weight lifting, sport performance certification, and sports performance consultant.

He has worked at U Hartford, Seton Hall, Princeton, Iona. This Landed him at his dream job at the Barton Health Performance Program in Lake Tahoe where he helps prepare athletes for performance in life and sport, mental strategies to maximize oneself,  injury prevention strategies, team coordination and dynamics, physical and mental recovery from injury. 

At what point in your life, or professional development, brought you to be a performance coach?

Want to play and perform your best? Then train the most valuable muscle in the body the Brain. Here are some questions that we ask coach Ryan in the video:

1. What is mental performance and why it is important
2. We are all off season at the moment. Fingers crossed hands washed we will be out of this pause. Is this an appropriate time to think about Goal Setting? 
3. Goal Setting seems overwhelming with its inter dependencies. Where do we start?
4. Confidence is a moving target for many athletes. It would seem easy enough to believe in oneself. What strategies or disciplines do you have to believe?
5. Are confidence and consistency related?  
6. Consistency is a term that we throw around in life, as coaches, players but is such an abstract state.  It is quality of always being the same. The state or condition of always happening or behaving in the same way. This is contrary to the core of athletic competition. Consistency is a life long pursuit.  What are the building blocks in building consistent performance? 
7. Mistakes – They eat at us.  Cause stress, anxiety, and pain. How do you deal with them during the game, after the game, and try to avoid them in the future.
8. What can we do during this off period to train the brain?
   1. Psychologically 
   2. Cognitive drills or activities?