The best athletes can have slumps, underachieve, and fail if they focus on the wrong success factors. During these times of poor performance they are unable to let go of setbacks, errors, and mental mistakes that can be compounded by lack of self-confidence, fear of failure, unrealistic expectations. As an athlete, leaving the mental side of performance to chance make you more susceptible to performance problems. As a coach, a working knowledge of mental and sports psychology skills will help you develop athletes with more self-confidence, motivation, and experience peak performance. Finally, as a parent, the principals of sport psychology, can help you encourage your child to reach their peak performance and develop mental toughness that enhances their self-esteem to achieve greatness, not only in their sport, but also in the bigger picture of life.
In this incredible five-part DVD series, The Way of the Champion author Jerry Lynch shares a complete guide for athletes, coaches, and parents to help them help their athletes learn and develop the habits of champions. Lynch's credo is that of developing "A Champion's Soul with a Winner's Heart," and shares concepts and hands-on activities that will afford a coach the blueprint for how to implement and maintain a team culture for accountability and commitment for attaining the highest potential. 
The first disc, "Having the Right Stuff" is the cornerstone of the series that provides the base from which all of the other presentations are built upon.
Having The Right Stuff
Are you looking for a way that helps you structure team meetings more effectively? Would you like to help your athletes to become mentally stronger? Do you want to learn how to inspire your athletes to play their very best? Having the Right Stuff will help you address these desires and enable you to help your athletes develop the skills and processes of champions.
Sport Psychologist Jerry Lynch suggests that you and your team not think about "becoming" champions but rather that you decide to "be" a champion first, by beginning right now to follow and practice the habits and lifestyle of champions. Champions work, play and compete with heart. The good news for athletes is that playing and competing with heart is something that can be taught. In Lynch's Way of the Champion Series, he will show you how to teach your athletes to incorporate the traits and habits of champions. The end result will enable your athletes to have the "the stuff of champions." Lynch also presents ten ways to get the most out of your athletes by being open, fair, serving, a listener and humble. Lynch's teaching begins with the circle as a symbol of team unity that allows for open communication. He will help you to identify inspiration in the lives of your athletes and how this inspiration can be used to enhance their athletic competition.
Developing Self-Awareness
Are you and your athletes tired of having regrets? Do you wish your athletes had a better sense of their capabilities? Would you like the athletes to know what they like least about themselves competitively and, more importantly, how to change those things? Developing Self-Awareness will help you help your athletes to become more self-aware to maximize their potential while getting the team on the same page and creating a stronger environment of trust and respect.
In many respects, knowing yourself as a person and athlete is more important than knowing your opponent. In developing self-awareness the athletes look at themselves to maximize his or her potential. Jerry demonstrates group activities that are designed to have the team take an introspective look at themselves, their behavior and habits. By evaluating an athletes behavioral traits, productive and counterproductive habits can be identified that are keeping a player from being the champion that is bottled up inside. Lynch has a unique ability to get on the same page with the athletes in the group activities and will help you to do the same.
Developing Strategic Positioning
Are you interested in having your team believe that their game is won before the competition even begins? Does your team get off to a slow start and find themselves in the uncomfortable position of playing catch-up? Does your team have a difficult time taking criticism and learning from mistakes? Developing Strategic Positioning address these issues by understanding that competition is a process. The first activity is sending a message to the opponent. When the team shows up to compete the opponent critically evaluates you and what is often seen will determine the outcome. By effectively and efficiently sending a strong message to your opponent about your intent develops your strategic position. The next activity is about checking in on your recently past performance where champions critically evaluate the positive aspects of their performance and what opportunities there are for improvement that can lead to more success. The final activity is raising the bar of intensity during practices by seeing that the only things keeping them from dynamic positive change is themselves.
Developing Competitive Advantage
Are you frustrated with your team's lack of belief in themselves? Do they fail to develop or create the crucial edge they need in order to dominate? Do your athletes seem to lack heart or mental toughness when they compete? Developing Competitive Advantage highlights that your opponent's greatest advantage is your team's lack of belief in their ability to do their best and provides strategies to help you and your athletes create the crucial edge over the opponent. Learning to understand the important message of self-doubt, confidently face each competitive game, and demonstrating heart are essential every time an athlete puts their feet on the playing field. Lynch discusses the characteristics of tough teams and teaches athletes how to create mental toughness from those characteristics. To cement these mentally, Lynch instructs athletes to use mental tools of meditation, visualization, and affirmation. Developing a competitive edge is about what we have to do to bring your best to the game. Through mental training, athletes can execute at their highest level with the competitive edge needed for success.
Developing Team Unity and Leadership
Is your team lacking in leadership or the athletes fail to unite for a common purpose? Does selfishness interfere with getting the job done? Developing Team Unity and Leadership shows that all great championship teams have a oneness of unity and purpose. Dr. Lynch will help your team to develop strategies for sound leadership throughout the ranks and provides several activities that can easily be implemented to create harmony and unity throughout the team. Every single athlete achieves more with a strong sense of team and by focusing on behaviors that need to be eliminated to enhance team unity, together as a unit the team can achieve their common goals and purposes.
Summary
Knowing how to get the most out of your athletes, to instill, inspire and motivate them to greatness, especially during "crunch time" and to avoid all the mental traps of choking, slumps, and blocks. Get your athletes to experience peak performance. Help your children develop self-confidence to win, not only in sport, but also in all of life, by learning and implementing the sports psychology and peak performance strategies of Dr. Jerry Lynch. Get your copy of The Way of the Champion by Jerry Lynch before your team or athlete goes into their next competitive setting unprepared.
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