FLIPPIN' AWESOME COACHING FOR ATHLETES w/AmyTwiggs

Jealousy and comparison is not only a negative thing for your gymnasts individually, it can have a real negative impact on your team. This week we talk about why your gymnasts brains constantly go to comparison and jealousy and how to help them with it.

One of the things that gymnasts tell us worry them the most is their fear of disappointing their coaches, parents and teammates with how they do in competition. It drastically affects their ability to enjoy competing and adds so much pressure. Here is why they are worried and some things that you can do to help them learn how to let go of their worry and start focusing in on their gymnastics. This will help with performance anxiety, mental blocks, fear of falling and competing with confidence. We want every gymnast and coach to enjoy the journey. We specialize in helping gymnasts and coaches with the mental and emotional side of gymnastics. We have combined proven behavioral science principles with sports psychology to create gymnastics mindset coaching that gets results. Schedule a free intro session where we can coach you or your gymnast right away. https://gymnasticsmindsetacademy.as.me/

One of the first things we teach a young gymnast is how to fall safely. Because we all know that for sure, a gymnast is going to fall. And so we prepare them for it. And yet, we (and they) still think something has gone wrong when they actually fall in a meet. Even though ALL gymnasts fall in meets at some point. Teaching your gymnast that falling is fine is the most effective way to help them hit consistently. Join us as we talk about why and give some ideas for helping your gymnasts adopt this belief. This will help them with performance anxiety, overcoming mental blocks and competeting with confidence. Check out more teaching videos for coaches by subscribing to our youtube channel, and more teaching for gymnasts on our instagram and facebook. Or, connect with us on our website at gymnasticsmindsetacademy.com.

Your gymnasts often time attach their feelings to their results. This can create an emotional rollercoaster for them, and you as a coach! Listen to a few gymnastics mindset training tips on how to help your gymnasts gan their power back over their emotions when it comes to scores, places, and even just falls. This will help them immensely with performance anxiety, mental blocks in competition and competing with confidence. Check out more teaching videos for coaches by subscribing to our youtube channel, and more teaching for gymnasts on our instagram and facebook. Or, connect with us on our website at gymnasticsmindsetacademy.com.

It can seem in gymnastics, that your gymnasts being tired all the time, sore, without enough energy to get through workout is just how it is. That injuries are just par for the course. But according to our special guest, Kerry Bair with the Gymnast RD, it doesn't have to be this way. Most gymnasts experience this because they are under fueled. They simply aren't eating enough. Mental blocks, frustration, being hangry, all are symptoms of your gymnast simply not having enough fuel to do what gymnastics requires of them. Listen in to this incredibly informative conversation to learn more about proper fueling for your gymnast so they can be successful. A well fueled gymnast is a happier, healthier gymnast. Find Kerry @: Website: https://www.foodforfuelrd.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegymnastrd/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thegymnastrd

The second pillar of competing with confidence is learning how to deal with your emotions. Competition is full of strong emotions, and knowing how to deal with them - and how not to dread them will help your athlete tremendously in competition. Dealing with performance anxiety, overcoming fears and nerves, and being mentally tough is all about learning how to not just stuff aside emotion, but how to process and deal with them. In this episode, we talk about how to do just that. If you haven't checked out what we are doing to serve the gymnastics community with mental and emotional health, be sure to go to GymnasticsMindsetAcademy.com

We are focusing on building self-confidence this month. One area to do this is by teaching athletes to trust themselves. Sometimes we hear gymnasts say they are going for a skill, but then they don't. This is the opposite of self-confidence. Learning to trust yourself and do what you say you're going to do isn't always easy. Listen to our podcast to get some mindset training tips on how to help your gymnast trust themself and continue building their self-confidence in the process. If you haven't checked out what we are doing to serve the gymnastics community with mental and emotional health, be sure to go to GymnasticsMindsetAcademy.com.

Change is in the air! We have rebranded to Gymnastics Mindset Academy-- still the same great content that applies to everyone! We want to continue providing great value that anyone can use, while giving specific examples of how to use our tools to gymnasts and coaches of gymnasts. Join us this month as we give you some unique views on self-confidence and how to increase your own. Sometimes, we attach our self-confidence with the results we create. The truth is, our results do not create our self-confidence. The better we become at separating what happens outside of us from what we create inside of us, the more self-confidence we will feel. If you want more self-confidence, come see what we are doing at GymnasticsMindsetAcademy.com

Words are so powerful. Especially when you are speaking them to yourself. Listen now to hear about the power of words, and how to help your athletes eliminate words that are not useful for them! Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com.

Coach Claudia has owned and run Gym America for the last 45 years. She shares her thoughts and ideas with us on coaching, especially on how to have fun in the gym. We talk about different ideas for coaching and creating fun. She also shares about Balance Palace, a new board game for beam! https://shopshinecreative.com/shop. Then, we turn the conversation and teach Coach Claudia how to believe something new step by step. This process is the secret to helping your gymnasts overcome fear, performance anxiety and mental blocks. It is one of the foundational tools in our gymnastics mindset training. Join us for this super fun, very educational conversation with one amazing gymnastics coach! Let's learn how to help your gymnasts master their minds. Want to learn more? Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com.

Your gymnast has tried hard to think positively, to swap a thought, to believe something new. But they just can't seem to get there. On this week's episode we talk about the brain and WHY it is so hard to do. We also help you learn how to begin the process and how to help your gymnast. Beliefs that will help them overcome fear, manage their emotions and be mentally tough are so important for productive practices and confident competitions. Here's how to work on getting them there! Let's learn how to help your gymnasts master their minds. Want to learn more? Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com.

The results that we get start with the things we believe. If you want your gymnasts to have great results, they have to learn how to believe something new. Tune in to learn not only how to swap a thought, but step by step how to believe that new thought for good. Your gymnasts can use this mindset training as they work to overcome fears, performance anxiety about the upcoming season and to become mentally for productive practices and confident competitions. Let's learn how to help your gymnasts master their minds. Want to learn more? Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com.

Cue Words can become a short hand code to powerful thoughts and emotions that will fuel your gymnast to perform at her best. Coaches can use this gymnastics mindset training tool to help your gymnasts overcome fear and create confidence in her skills for peak performance. Coach Ali and Coach Stacie talk in detail about how to help your gymnast find the right cue words to create the desired results. Want to learn more? Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com.

Affirmations are a popular tool to use with gymnasts to help them overcome fear and mental blocks, decrease performance anxiety and help in their mindset training. Used in conjunction with our other mindset tools, they can be very helpful in focusing your gymnasts brain on believing something positive about themselves. But used incorrectly, and they can deepen the fear or disbelief. Coach Ali and Coach Stacie talk thought affirmations, when they are helpful and how to use them to help your gymnast in this weeks episode. Let's learn how to help your gymnasts master their minds. Want to learn more? Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com.

How can you help your gymnast overcome fear or a mental block with mindset training? Visualizing their future self is a powerful tool. It's also a powerful tool for you as a coach or to use with your whole team. When you tap into the imagination and visualize yourself as the person or the team who has already accomplished their dreams, the brain can begin to use that to help you actually accomplish it. Gymnastics is a mental sport. Let's learn how to help your gymnasts master their minds. Want to learn more? Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com.

Are you wondering, "How do I help my gymnast learn a new skill they are afraid of?" Or "How do I help my gymnast who is injured or out continue to keep their skills up?" This week we chat about the second and third steps in powerful visualization. Visualization is such an important tool to use in mindset training to help your athletes become mentally tough, help them deal with performance anxiety, or help them overcome fear. Here's how to teach your gymnasts visualization that really works and how to use visualization as part of your training assignments. It is a powerful tool when used correctly. Want to learn more? Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com.

Have you ever asked your athletes to try to visualize themselves confidently completing a skill, only to have them see themselves falling or failing again and again? When learning to visualize yourself doing something you don't yet believe you can do, it is important to help remove fear and disbelief. Here are some helpful ways to do that. Go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com where we create happy, healthy athletes who know how to win. X, Athlete's Mindset Academy Coaches

Equal Airtime: Your brain naturally looks for anything that could be considered a problem. It does this as a protective mechanism. When you notice yourself focusing on negative options, we want to encourage you to spend just as much time opening up to the other side of the story. It's possible that there is no problem, that everything is going to work for us better than we could imagine, that we might actually stick that routine or win that medal. It's possible either side could occur. Give yourself time and space to really open up to positive options without condemning the negative ones. If you find your athletes dropping into a lot of negative self-talk, then we can help. Go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com where we create happy, healthy athletes who know how to win. X, Athlete's Mindset Academy Coaches

Interview With Wayne Wright. Today we had the privilege of interviewing Wayne Wright, former San Jose State University Head Coach for the women's gymnastics team. Currently, Wayne works for the 49ers education-community based programs and consults with No Cap Sports. We discussed some of the fears of coaching in today's culture. Coaching today becomes a balance of acknowledging the pressure to help a team win, succeed, becoming a coach that doesn't feel that their past will be judged at any given moment with the possibility of losing their job, or wondering if they are meeting the expectations of the parents. Coaching 20 years ago was different than it is today-- and there is a lot to discuss around this topic! We are so grateful Wayne Wright opened up about the nuances of the coaching world today. If you are a coach who feels confused and hesitant to coach athletes due to all the current situations and "safe sport" regulations, we are here for you. We hear you! Join our movement to empower coaches with tools that allow you to coach the way you've always wanted to! Go to: AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to learn more.

Behind our physical fears are our emotional fears. We are afraid of what people are going to think, afraid of what we will feel if our fears come true. This week we learn about dealing with these emotional fears - understanding where they come from and how to deal with them.

Master Your Fear: Today, we focused on fear and why it's hard to master your fear at times. Here are a few points we discussed to calm that part of your brain down: Your primal brain thinks everything is scary. You need to determine when something truly is unsafe and when it isn't. Speak to your brain in a loving way so it knows it's safe. If you have athletes who don't know how to manage their fears, then we are here for you! Let us teach you how to help your athletes manage their fears. Go to: AthletesMindsetAcademy.com Have an amazing day, Athlete's Mindset Academy Coaches

What if you considered your sport like you would a best friend? Sometimes friends are hard to get along with, or they disappoint. But, if someone were to criticize your best friend, you might find yourself becoming defensive and looking for all the reasons your best friend is amazing. Try this with your sport. How could you sport be considered similar to a friend? If you are looking for ideas to enjoy your sport more, come check out AthletesMindsetAcademy.com. We are here to help! x, Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches

Do you ever find yourself wishing others would just be like and do what you want them to do? Why don't others know how they "should" act? Life would just be so much easier if everyone played by our rules. Right?! This would be nice, but we all know this isn't the way life works. So, what "should" you do when others don't follow your rules? Find out our thoughts in today's episode! If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful mental and emotional health tips. Have an amazing week, Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches

Who do you blame for how you feel? If you're like most people, when things are tough, you might choose to point the finger to a parent or athlete. What if we took responsibility for how we feel at any given moment during the day? If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful mental and emotional health tips. Have an amazing week, Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches

What is a relationship? How can you make the relationship on your team better? What can you do to feel comfortable talking to your athletes in a more impactful way? If you want some ideas on how to build a stronger team culture, then we have some great tools to help you this month! Tune in to what you can do to help your team relationships. If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful mental and emotional health tips. Have an amazing week, Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches

What do you do with your time? If you were to write down your top 5 priorities, what would they be and why? When you write your priorities down, why did you put them in that order? Think about what you did yesterday? Did your actions align with your priorities? If not, then we have some great ideas and tools to help you with your priorities and time management. If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful mental and emotional health tips. Have an amazing week, Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches

Do you ever feel like theres just not enough time to get it all done in practice? Most of us can relate. Time seems to "get away" from us and we want to know how to create more time. Today Coach Stacie, Amy and Ali talk about where you, as coaches of gymnasts, might see this showing up and what you can do to help your gymnasts be more productive. If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful emotional health tips. have an amazing week! Your Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches

Does it ever feel as though time is just "passing you by" or there just not enough time to fit everything in? Today, Coach Ali and Coach Amy share some ideas about why managing your time feels so hard. Discover how your primary brain actually makes it difficult to manage your time and why. If you have questions, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com. We'd love to answer any questions you may have. -Athlete's Mindset Academy

This month, we are going to focus on your thoughts about time. What you believe about time impacts your daily results. Listen to the tips from Coach Ali and Coach Amy regarding how to use your beliefs about time to serve you better. For more ideas, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com. have an amazing week, Athlete's Mindset Academy

Have you been following the Olympics? Unexpected changed continue to occur and athletes continue to step up to the challenges. In today's episode, Coach Stacie, Ali and Amy discuss some of the mental health needs associated with the results of the Olympics so far. Coach Stacie points out that the body shows what's going on underneath it all. Consider what your body and results might be telling you about your belief systems and emotional health. Follow our company-- as we diligently continue to open up conversation with athletes about their mental health. Go to: AthletesMindsetAcademy.com for more resources. x, Athlete's Mindset Academy Coaches

Athlete mental health has skyrocketed into the spotlight this week with Simone pulling back from competition. Coach Ali and coach Stacie chat about the environment of the Olympics from Stacie's experience in 2016, their reactions as events unfolded in the team finals, and thoughts on mental health training in gymnastics. Tune in for this special edition! x, Athlete's Mindset Academy

Why do you want to make a change? What are you seeking in the long run? What is the compelling reason you will hold on to when everything feels uncomfortable to keep you going? Discomfort is the key to change. If you want to change a habit, then you will want to know why you really want to change. Otherwise, you will quit as soon as something feels tough. We have some great ideas and tools to help you through those tough moments. If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful emotional health tips. Have an amazing week, Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches

Do you ever feel like breaking a habit is all or nothing? This is just one reason why breaking a habit might feel hard to you. If you miss a day of your goal or mess up in anyway, then you might as well just quit on the goal all together. Most of us can relate. Today Coach Stacie and Coach Ali talk about their experience with breaking habits and how to stay out of "all or nothing" thinking. If you haven't checked out our free resources, go to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com to get some more useful emotional health tips. have an amazing week! Your Athletes Mindset Academy Coaches

How many times do you have to do something repeatedly to create a new habit? Answers vary to this question. However, we can give you a quick, efficient tool to use when you're ready to change a habit for good. Join Coach Ali and Coach Amy on this episode to learn more. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.

Are you ready to change an old habit? Ready to do something different in order to get a more satisfying result in your athletics? To succeed at your sport, you have to embrace #thedailygrind. The important but boring kind of actions you do day in and day out. Strength and conditioning. Flexibility. Cardio. Drills. Eating well. Getting enough sleep. Managing your time. To do all these things that support and build a strong foundation for your sport, you need to develop habits. They are the things you do without thinking about it. the process of stopping a habit you want to leave behind or creating a new habit is changing the thought that is driving it. Habits usually come from simple thoughts. This feels good. This is just what I do. I always do it this way. If you are ready for this kind of challenge, then listen to today's episode as Coach Ali and Coach Amy discuss what habits are and how to change them. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.

Athlete Mindset Training company is committed to developing happy, healthy athletes who know how to win. In this podcast, we teach you how to use a foundational tool to create anything you want in your sports experience. It's simple, yet powerful. Try it. If you have any questions or want personal help with your own self-coaching journey, let us know! have a beautiful week! -Athlete's Mindset Academy Coaches AthletesMindsetAcademy.com

This month we will be talking about becoming a self-coaching master. The coaches of Athlete's Mindset Academy discusses why It is important to consistently self-coach as a preventative skill to avoid those "stuck" moments that inevitably happen in sports and life. If you are an athlete, sooner or later, you will find that adding emotional management to your daily routine is the greatest way to take care of yourself and expedite your way to success. If you are ready for some mental and emotional tools that actually work, check us out at Athlete's Mindset Acadmey.com We are here to help you feel and look like the amazing athlete you are!! x, Athlete's Mindset Academy Coaches

This week we have a special interview for you! Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a parent to an Olympian? Christine and Tony Garcia, the parents of Rachel Garcia, talk openly of the struggles and triumphs involved in raising an olympic level athlete. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.

We want to invite you into a very special opportunity that is only available THIS WEEK... We help athletes who are struggling with the mental and emotional side of gymnastics - and life. We help coaches learn incredibly effective techniques to coach the mental and emotional aspects of the sport. We help parents learn how to support their gymnasts and coaches most effectively. We are experts in training the mind and helping people deal with their emotions. And we want to help. So we are working on launching a gymnastics membership for teams and gyms this summer. We've been thinking about creating a community where we can help you and you can help each other. Where you have ready made curriculum in easy, bite-sized pieces that coaches and gyms can use to develop happy, healthy athletes who know how to win. As a founding member of our community, we are asking you to help us help the culture of gymnastics to change emotionally and mentally.... which always leads to more successful athletics as a result. Find out what's been going on inside Athlete's Mindset Academy AND how you can be a part the change that we are making in the world of gymnastics TODAY! Will you raise your voice to create happier, healthier gymnasts now....or wait until this opportunity is closed? Are you ready to do something you've never done before.... change the culture of gymnastics for good? Join the Founding Members by going to AthletesMindsetAcademy.com. We will see you on the inside!

Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey. As mentioned in last weeks episode, this week, Coach Ali shares with us her past traumatic story about abuse (warning! Sensitive topic). She shows us how to use last weeks tool of separating the facts of a situation from the thoughts about the facts in order to find neutral space and eventually healing and progress. These tools helped Coach Ali move on from her own situation to create the life she desired.

Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. This week, Coach Ali & Coach Amy discuss one of their favorite tools that actually work to re-write the story of the past. Try the technique when you are feeling stuck in a past story in order to move forward again. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.

Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.

Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.

Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. Check us out at athletesmindsetacademy.com or follow us on social media for more free tools and to learn about how we can support you as an athlete, coach or parent in your sports journey.

Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win. This month we will be talking about emotions. Feelings are your fuel. It is important to learn how to process those feelings and how to create the feelings that will fuel your dreams.

This week our coaches talk on the importance of being willing to feel any feeling to compete with confidence.

Coaches Amy and Stacie chat with 2016 Olympic Alternate, NCAA standout and 2021 Olympic hopeful MyKayla Skinner. Listen in as they chat about competing with confidence, what it was like to be an alternate at the Olympic Games and MyKayla's thoughts for the future.

This week the coaches talk about how to create the confidence you need to win.

Coach Stacie chats with Dr. Margaret Rutherford, author of Perfectly Hidden Depression: How to break free from the perfectionism that masks your depression. Check out her website at: https://drmargaretrutherford.com/

Join in on the conversation with our coaches about their experiences with the topic of the week. Sometimes we invite special guests. Always entertaining, always helping you become a happier, healthier athlete who knows how to win.

How to deal with grief at the end of you athletic career.