Mental performance coaching · teen athletes and their families · every sport

Their Mind Already DoesEverything a Champion’s Does

It feels. It focuses. It talks to them. It pictures what’s coming. Nobody taught them to use it on purpose, so most of the time it’s using them. Mental Grit teaches competitive teen athletes to use their own minds, and teaches their parents their real role in that.

10+
Years specializing in teen athletes
Hundreds
Teams
Thousands
Athletes and families
Worldwide
From Bangkok to Europe

You Know This Athlete

The sport changes. What you are watching doesn’t. These are the behaviors that tell you the mind is running the athlete, instead of the athlete running the mind. Turn each one over.

What families tell us it looks like after

Calm, confident, and consistent when it counts.

An athlete who handles it themselves. And a parent who knows exactly what to do, what to say, and when.

What We Do

We are not here to fix problems. We are here to optimize potential. Five capabilities every athlete already has, trained on purpose, and a parallel track for the parent.

01

Emotional Response

Using the emotions of competition rather than letting the emotions use them.

02

Focus & Attention

Moving out of distraction and refocusing on what right looks like for an elite athlete.

03

Self-Talk

Talk to yourself rather than listen to yourself. Negative to neutral, not negative to positive.

04

Visualization & Imagery

The competition starts in the mind before the athlete ever steps into the arena.

05

High-Performance Routine

A real system to get both the body and the mind ready to compete at the highest levels.

Parents

Performance Parenting

We teach you what we are teaching them and, more importantly, your role in supporting it. Your own toolbox, individualized to your athlete.

See how it works

Nate Last racing a triathlon

Meet the coach

The Coach I Needed and Didn’t Have

I quit more than one sport as a kid because my own head beat me before anyone else could. Years later I found performance psychology, and my life became more productive, more enjoyable and more successful, in sport and well beyond it.

For more than a decade I have specialized in one thing: teen athletes and their families. Hundreds of teams. Thousands of athletes and parents. Athletes and families across the United States and around the world, from Bangkok to Europe.

Master’s, Applied Performance PsychologyMBAContributing author, Deliberate Discomfort
About Nate and the coaches

What It Adds Up To

A decade-plus of this work, in every sport, on more than one continent. The numbers say how much. The case studies show what it looks like for one athlete and one family, in their own words.

10+
Years specializing in teen athletes
Hundreds
Teams
Thousands
Athletes and families
Worldwide
From Bangkok to Europe

Read the case studies

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