Mental skills training: The untapped strategies to help athletes perform with Colleen Hacker

Today's guest on the Pacey Performance Podcast is Dr. Colleen Hacker. Colleen has worked with some of the biggest sporting organisations and businesses in the world as a Mental Performance Consultant. She most recently served on the Gold Medal staff for USA Ice Hockey in the 2018 Olympic Games which was alongside her tenure with the women's football USA national team. Within this time she helped the USA win multiple Olympic gold medals.

On the episode today we discuss a number of different mental skills which performance coaches may want to develop. This may not be a sole focus, but things like mental toughness, resilliance and dealing with adversity are skills that can be developed in numerous environments which onto the field or court. Given recent conversations on mental toughness and military style training, we chat a lot about how performance coaches and those without the luxury of a mental skills coach can use strategies in their sessions to build this.

If you're looking to learn from one of the world's best in the area of mental skills development, press play now.

• What is a mental performance consultant and mental skills coach
• How to develop mental toughness
• How can coaches build in mental toughness elements to their practices?
• What sport can learn from the business world: stress, pressure etc
• Common mental traits of gold medal winning teams