Pete’s Blog

You don’t go to the gym once and declare yourself fit do you? You build up physical fitness over a period of time and maintain it regularly with continuous exercise. The same  applies to mental strength but it is amazing how many players think that a single session of...

The optimum state for competition is to be nice and relaxed with the correct amount of what I call positive tension which is a kind of excitement. When you achieve the correct balance you enter what is known as the zone. (Or the flow if you’re a writer or the groove...

Just as players perform a physical warm-up routine prior to matches, they also need a mental warm-up to drive out all negative thoughts and leave them feeling strong, confident, powerful and happy with only positive thoughts flowing through their minds. Few, however,...

Calling all football managers. Over the years I have worked with a huge number of professional footballers helping them enhance performance levels and get rid of negative tendencies. When I first meet them, most don’t even have the foggiest idea about the most...

Calling all football managers. Here’s some vitally important information for ambitious managers, coaches and professional footballers direct from the UK’s top football mind coach. What is mental strength? Where does it come from? How do you get it? What pre-match...

Calling all football managers. If you ask any serious footballer to what extent their mental state affects performances they all tell you a huge amount, usually seventy, eighty or ninety percent. But if you then ask those same players what they do to prepare their...

Calling all football managers. If I said there was an entirely safe and legal way to instantly transform the performance level of players beyond anything you imagined was possible, would you be interested? Of course you would. Well stand by because this is it! The...

Calling all football managers interested in winning more matches. Do you realise how incredibly powerful the mind is and how much performances improve when you train your mind as well as your body? I am an expert in this and what I say without the slightest hesitation...

Calling all football managers wanting more goals, more wins, more points. Want to hear a little known yet amazing fact that will make those little bristles on the back of your neck rise? Teams win up to 50% more points when using my mental training method. Imagine...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]‘When two teams are equally strong in technique, tactics and feel for the game, the team with the greater confidence is going to win.’ - (Sven-Goran Eriksson on football, 2002)[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Ostensibly, top athletes...

What happened to England in the world cup rugby final? I have a theory about this and I share it with you now. As England fans hauled themselves out of bed to view the early morning cup-final kick-off beamed around the UK from Yokohama most believed their team just...

Many people have an underlying feeling that something is missing in their lives. When questioned closely it emerges that what they want most is happiness but they allow stress, anxiety and the pressing ‘responsibilities’ of modern life to avoid getting it. On a level...

On 6th May 1954 Roger Bannister stepped out onto a running track in Oxford in an attempt to break the record for running the mile. The previous record had stood at 4.01.4 for nine years during which many great athletes had tried and failed to break this daunting...