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Break Free from Cheerleading Mental Blocks: Step #3

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Cheerleaders with mental blocks soon realize that there is usually no quick fix.  Debbie Love’s 9-step plan called the Breaking Free System can be viewed on her website.  Today’s post reviews step #3 of Debbie’s system. 

Debbie has definite ideas about physical conditioning.  She says, “If you fail to include a conditioning segment into your program you are asking for mediocre performance by your athletes.”  Can’t get much clearer than that!! (more…)

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Mindfulness Training can improve cheerleading performance

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

When a cheerleader experiences anxiety in relation to executing a specific skill, there is a tendency to avoid it.  This is pretty natural – we all tend to want to avoid something that makes us uncomfortable.  The problem with this is that it works – meaning that each time we avoid something, our anxiety diminishes and thus we reinforce that avoidance behavior.  (more…)

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