Graduate Professor of Sport Psychology;
former Head Track & Field Coach at the University of Missouri;
founder and former chairman of the USA Track & Field Sport Psychology program
Building Your Best FOCUS for Winning Football!
All Coaches want their players to show up on "Game Day" totally FOCUSED, ready to deliver their very BEST PERFORMANCE! Being able to FOCUS, and then totally RE-FOCUS is a vital key to great performance, great achievement, and protecting the opportunity to celebrate great wins! It is so easy to understand the need for FOCUS. Yet for many Coaches and players, to be able to achieve FOCUS or to teach others how to FOCUS is an elusive mystery!Rick McGuire, a 30 year NCAA Division 1 Coach and nationally recognized leader in Applied Sport Psychology, provides clear and concise ideas and understandings that will guide Football Coaches at all levels in teaching their athletes the SKILL of FOCUS! These will include:
- FOCUS is a skill. FOCUS is a Sports Skill. Like all skills, FOCUS can be taught and learned!
- The Foundation for FOCUS in Football
- The 5 Key Skills to FOCUS in Football
- Taking FOCUS to the Football Field
- How and when to use the FOCUS skills
- How to be totally FOCUSED, and the to be REFOCUSED for the next play ... EVERY PLAY
"The understandings and skills that are included in From the Whistle to the Snap are used by our players and coaches at every workout, every practice, every day!"
Gary Pinkel, University of Missouri Tigers Head Football Coach
68 pages. 2012.
FD-03999: by Dr. Rick McGuire, Director of Sport Psychology for the University of Missouri;
Graduate Professor of Sport Psychology;
former Head Track & Field Coach at the University of Missouri;
founder and former chairman of the USA Track & Field Sport Psychology program
"The understandings and skills that are included in From the Whistle to the Snap are used by our players and coaches at every workout, every practice, every day!"
Gary Pinkel
University of Missouri Tigers Head Football Coach
Wouldn't it be great to have your players totally dialed in, totally focused, play after play, game after game? In this presentation, Dr. Rick McGuire, a 30 year NCAA Division 1 Coach and nationally recognized leader in Applied Sport Psychology, provides a clear and concise "how to" guide that will enable Football Coaches at all levels to teach their players the SKILL of FOCUS!
McGuire will teach you that learning focusing skills is both a process and a practice. He takes you through a progressive 5-step process that will arm you to make focus a weapon in your team's arsenal. McGuire identifies that the most critical time a player and team benefit the most from the skill of focusing is the time from the whistle to the snap. This is the most critical time for your athletes and team to refocus for the next play.
McGuire teaches you how to lead your staff and team to "buy in" and to develop a tough, unified "right here right now" mindset, ready to perform totally focused. Dr. McGuire reinforces his concepts with sound foundations of sport psychology and proven professional methods. You will also learn how to implement this program to make the mental game of football a winning game for your program. Coach Gary Pinkel has implemented this successful program with his Missouri Tigers, and has seen firsthand the power that learning the skill of focus, from the whistle to the snap, brings to a team and staff.
Dr. McGuire is a gifted and passionate teacher! You will learn how implement a routine to teach your players how to get into their "zone" for peak performance on both an individual and team basis. If you want your athletes to show up on game day FOCUSED and ready to deliver their best every day, this powerful presentation is a must have!
153 minutes (2 DVDs). 2012