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Getting Over Yourself, And Getting Out There
Get Your Mind Right – Mental Focus Performance anxiety is a challenge that affects many young athletes, and can often become an issue...
Getting Into The Mental Game
What Goes On In Your Mind? Have you ever really thought about what is going on in your head, as you practice, or as you get ready for a...
The Real Strength From Within
The answer can be a combination of many factors, but they are all held together by the emotion of confidence. When you really believe in...
What Do Successful Athletes Have In Common?
Mindset. Attitude does play a large part in doing well with sports. This applies to performance during competition, but it also applies...
Jumping Over Invisible Hurdles
It can be helpful to think about how many superstitions and habits professional athletes have. In some cases, people will say it is a...
What Really Makes A Winner?
Considering Perspectives While focus and confidence are linked, the feeling of confidence can come down to the perspective that you take....
5 Quotes From Muhammad Ali That Will Inspire the Heck Out of You
Watching Muhammad Ali box is like watching poetry. He’s fluid, fast, powerful. He looks his opponents in the eyes, stares’em down, looks...
Improve Your Game Like Crazy With This Method
In this post, we talked about “3 Things Pro Athletes Know That You Don’t”. One of those things was to be afraid. Be very afraid. In that...
3 Things Pro Athletes Know That You Don’t
If you haven’t figured it out by now – we do things a bit differently here at Core1. We’re all about no-nonsense. We’re all about doing...
3 Ways to Revolutionize Your Workouts With Music
Music can make or break a workout. It can alter your pace, and push you to go harder when you thought you had nothing left....
21 Reasons to Get Your Butt on the Training Floor
Look, we all have days that we just do NOT want to train! Happens to me and everyone here at CORE1 from time to time. But training is...
10 Steps to Achieving Your Dreams.
All of us can be great. To be honest, it’s nothing special. I know, that might come as a shock, but it’s true: Because every person on...
Mental Toughness: A Top Performing Trait From The Greeks To Today
Athletes in Naperville are aware of the fact that there are many different aspects to sports training. While many of them are physical,...
The Power Of Your Breath In Mental Training For Sports
Sports mental training is key to performance in any sport. No matter what you play, you want to be able to keep your mind engaged with...
Common Goal Setting
Our Downers Grove physical therapy programs are individualized for every athlete we treat. They are tailored to their athletic injury...
Come Back Athletes
Suffering from a severe injury can be devastating to an athlete’s career. Minor injuries requiring physical therapy happen all the time;...
Developing Athlete Mental Skills
Part of customized, sports enhancement training is the development of an athlete’s mental skills. This incorporates confidence, focus...
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