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Self-confidence is one of the major pillars of athletic performance, but it is also one of the most unstable. As coaches, you have all seen a talented athlete mentally collapse after a series of setbacks, doubt their abilities, hesitate when making decisions, and lose all their effectiveness in competition.

As a coach, you would never conceive of a season without rigorous physical and tactical planning: load cycles, tapering periods, injury prevention, and peak performance. However, ask yourself this frank question: how do you plan the mental training of your athletes over the year?

This article focuses on the mental barriers that prevent the practical application of data and explores how mental preparation offers concrete solutions to transform this information into tangible results.

With the upcoming Winter Olympics, physical and technical preparation reaches its peak. However, the Olympic environment presents unique psychological factors that can undo years of training.

Visualization is a technique commonly used in the mental preparation of athletes, but how effective is it really?