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"Mental strength is a learned skill."
WELCOME TO WINNING ZONE
MENTAL SKILLS TRAINING
WINNING ZONE MINDSET IS THE NEW MENTAL TOUGHNESS
The Winning Zone is the top level on the sports performance chart. When your Mental and Physical skills enter the Winning Zone you can produce a winning performance.
The Wining Zone mental skills training program helps professionals, players and young players improve their mental skills.
Professional players, Olympic athletes and top-grade players in every sport utilise mental skills training to enhance their performance.
Unlock Your Best Performance
Top level players engage in mental skills training with performance psychologists. They become the best they can be and enter the world of the elite through their quest for constant improvement.
I have worked with some of the best performers in professional and Olympic sports. All of them seek the best knowledge they can access to continue their performance growth.
Join the top level performers with the Winning Zone mental skills training program to achieve your best also.
OUR PROGRAMS
Winning Zone performance psychology helps to build mental skills for the next level in your sport
$176
Professional Pack.
Professionals and top-level players require advanced knowledge to enhance and maintain their competition performance success.
The Winning Zone Pro Pack provides detailed information, knowledge and exercises to help you progress on your path to winning performance. Successful players continue to upgrade their knowledge base.
Winning Zone training is educational and self-training. The numerous exercise inclusions in each module become unique to you. This is not one size fits all training.
Each of the 9 modules is divided into “Core knowledge” and “Core training”.
See the contents of each module here.
$66
Young Player Pack.
The Young Players pack is designed for competitive players aged 10 and above. Young Players who are serious about improving their game, progressing up the ranks and performing well in competition will benefit from the knowledge and exercises in the Winning Zone Mental Skills training program.
Young players will learn to cope with occasional frustrations when they know how to build their mental skills while their brain is still developing.
Each of the 4 modules is divided into “Core knowledge” and “Core training”.
See the contents of each module here.
About the Author
Alan was registered as a psychologist in 1992 after receiving Science and Master’s degrees from the University of NSW and Sydney University. Since that time he has worked in private practice and taught research methods and rehabilitation at Charles Sturt University. He currently works in both performance psychology and clinical psychology.
Whilst Alan was never an elite level performer he has participated in many different sports.His research and knowledge of worlds best techniques in evidenced based practice take sport performance psychology to new levels.
“I work with top level performers in sport, military veterans, emergency services personnel, people with trauma, depression and anxiety. My clients include an Americas Cup Yacht crew, Olympic Ski team, First Grade Rugby League team in addition to touring tennis and golf pros, junior players and regular competition players. The knowledge and techniques within Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitisation Routine (EMDR), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) and skill acquisition all combine to create a more complete understanding of performance psychology.”
Alan’s Master’s Degree Thesis at Sydney University explored the effect of emotions on skilled performance. Minor changes in emotional output can alter muscle tension and affect skill performance
The winning Zone History
My sports clients helped to create the Wining Zone. They would ask questions about confidence, concentration and emotion control in order to improve their game. Solving the mystery of high-level mental skills became a personal quest.
Over the years I examined many different fields of research which were all relevant to the deeper levels of psychology in sports performance. The principles of skill acquisition were well known but they didn’t explain performance failures under pressure nor why some people didn’t succumb to pressure.
The techniques of applied clinical psychology combine with information from sport psychology and many other fields of research in psychology to help answer the question – how do the best players do it?
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