Moving Past Mistakes in Gymnastics Dr. Patrick Cohn and Olympian Wendy Bruce-Martin discuss the top mental game challenges for gymnasts. Learn how perfectionism can be an asset and a problem for competitive gymnasts. This week Dr. Patrick Cohn and Wendy discuss why gymnasts dwell on mistakes and how they can move on after making mistakes in competition. Perfectionist gymnasts have … Boost Confidence>>
Overcoming Perfectionism One of the biggest issues with gymnasts today is their expectation of performance when competing. They expect for their performance to be perfect, even though this is an unreachable expectation. Although there are some advantages to perfectionism, there is also a major downside. Perfectionists tend to have a willingness to learn and improve, a strong work ethic, commitment … Boost Confidence>>
Letting Go of Mistakes in Gymnastics During practice or competition, do you have a hard time forgetting and bouncing back from mistakes? Do you find yourself dwelling on what you did wrong and how you could have done better? Does this dwelling cause you to make more mistakes or have a bad practice? Many gymnasts struggle with letting go of … Boost Confidence>>