Have you ever had an athlete put in a great summer or winter of training and start off the season with some solid races, only to run poorly at the end of the season because of anxiety or other mental performance problems?
While the race performance could be training related, often athletes simply aren’t mentally prepared to run their best races at the most important meets of the year.
Even if you’re a veteran coach (and highly skilled at writing and implementing workouts) you know you can use help with the mental side of racing. And if you’ve coached long enough, you know that it’s hard to get athletes back on track mentally after a bad race.
What if there was a simple way to empower athletes with the mental skills they need to race to their potential in every meet, and run their best races in October and November?
“The mental skills course was a game changer for our team this last season.”
- Rhonda B., high school coach
Let’s set you and your athletes up to have their best seasons ever by empowering them with the mental skills they need to race to their fitness levels.
They’ve put in miles and miles of training, and you’ve put in hours and hours of work designing training.
All you need now is a clear understanding of the mental skills your athletes need to run their best races at the end of the season.
Mental Skills for High School Runners Course
It’s designed for both coaches and athletes.
It’s concise – you need just a few hours to learn the key skills.
It comes with a 10-day money-back guarantee.
If you don’t get value from the course in the first 10 days, you get your money back, no questions asked.
The course is a collection of presentations and interviews from nine mental performance experts. The course features...
Shannon Thompson MAPP, NCCP
Shannon Thompson, sports performance coach for the NAU cross country teams, teaches athletes her “loose plan” approach to racing.
Steve Magness
Steve Magness, author of the best-selling book Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness, explains how to deal with pre-race anxiety.
Sinclaire Johnson, Nike
Nike athlete and World Championships competitor, Sinclaire Johnson, gives tips on how to run your best races at the most important meets of the year.
You’ll also learn from three coaches who have taken teams to NXN on multiple occasions: John O’Malley, Dan Iverson, and Kelly Christensen.
John O'Malley, Boy's Coach at Sandburg High School
John O’Malley is the boy’s coach at Sandburg High School (Orland Park, IL).
He is the only person to have coached two Footlocker national champions.
Dan Iverson, Girl's Coach at Naperville North High School
Dan Iverson is the girl’s distance coach at Naperville North High School (Naperville, IL).
His teams have qualified for the Nike Cross Nationals (NXN) five times, and twice finished second.
Kelly Christensen, Girl's and Boy's Coach at Niwot High School
Kelly Christensen is the girl's and boy's coach at Niwot High School (Niwot, CO).
His girls were second at the 2022 Nike Cross Nationals.
Also included are guided visualizations from Jay Johnson, as well as breathing and relaxation technique videos from Jacob Cooper, PhD.
All the videos are neatly organized with the most important videos first, allowing a coach or athlete to dive into the content right away.
And there are separate audio tracks that allow you to listen to the content just as you do with podcasts.
You can download the app for your phone and have access to all the content in your pocket or watch and listen on your computer.
You pay once.
You own it forever.
You get lifetime updates.
Mental Skills for High School Runners
One payment of $95
Lifetime Access
The Mental Skills course is only available for a few days in September.
However...
You can get the course when you enroll in the XC Training System and Track Training System.
This is the "complete set" of coaching education I offer, and you get all three for monthly payments of just $86.
Learn more about the XC Training System here and the Track Training System here.
Here are three concise videos that’ll give you an idea of what’s inside...
What are Mental Skills?
There’s no reason you can't run to your fitness level this fall. We can empower you with the skills you need to race fast in October and November.
Visualization
Learn the visualization techniques that will help you race to your fitness level.
The best runners in the world use visualization to race fast. Now's the time for you to do the same.
Pre-Race Anxiety and
Managing Expectations
Here's a short video with Steve Magness - author and coach to Olympians - and Dan Iverson, who is one of the best coaches in the country.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are all the videos available right now or do I have to wait?
How much time do I need to get the most out of this course?
How can I share this content with my team?
Can I listen to it on my phone when I’m driving or working out?
Will you really give me my money back?
What is “lifetime access?”
Can I simply listen to the interviews – like a podcast - or do I have to watch them?
Nine Speakers, 16 Exceptional Presentations
Shannon Thompson MAPP, NCCP
Shannon is a sports psychologist who works with the men's and women's cross country and track team at Northern Arizona University (NAU). She also works with professional runners in Flagstaff, Arizona. She works with high school athletes as part of the staff at HYPO2, a sport management organization centered around a world-renowned altitude training program and a collaboration of best-in-class high performance sport professionals.
Steve Magness
Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on performance, well-being, and sustainable success. His most recent work is Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness.
He is coauthor of the best selling Peak Performance and The Passion Paradox. In his coaching practice, Steve has worked with Olympians and world championship competitors. He's served as a consultant on mental skills development for professional sports teams.
John O'Malley, Boy's Coach at Sandburg High School
John O’Malley is the boy’s coach at Sandburg High School (Orland Park, IL).
He is the only person to have coached two Footlocker national champions.
On the track, his boys ran an average time of 7:44 in the 4 x 800m for 11 consecutive years (averaging 1:56 per athlete). Coach O’Malley has helped 10 different athletes run 4:10 or faster in the 1,600m.
Kelly Christensen, Girl's and Boy's Coach at Niwot High School
Kelly Christensen is the girl's and boy's coach at Niwot High School (Niwot, CO).
His girls were second at the 2022 Nike Cross Nationals.
In 2022, he coached a 4-minute miler, plus nine girls who ran under 5:10 in the 1600m in the state of Colorado.
He ran collegiately at Western State College, where he was an NCAA Division II champion in the steeplechase.
Sinclaire Johnson, Nike
Sinclaire Johnson is an IAAF World Championship competitor, USATF 1500m Champion, and former NCAA 1500m Champion (Oklahoma State).
She runs for Nike as part of the Union Athletics Club and has a 1500m PR of 3:58.85 (which converts to a 4:16 mile).
Jacob Cooper, PhD
Assistant Athletics Director for Sport Psychology and Mental Wellness, Appalachian State
Dr. Cooper is both licensed as a psychologist (HSPP) and certified as a mental performance consultant (CMPC). This means he possesses the highest standard of training available in order to provide the most comprehensive mental wellness care for student athletes. Additionally, he serves as a member of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Sport Psychology Registry.
Jacob is married to 2016 US Olympian Abby Cooper, who represented the US in the 5,000m.
Jessie Magato, Girl's Coach at Minster High School
Jessie Magoto has spent the last 23 years as the head cross country coach in the small town of Minster, Ohio. Twelve of those years she has also been the head track and field coach. During Jessie’s tenure at Minster she has coached 15 state championship and 7 runner-up teams. All 23 of her cross country teams have qualified for the state meet and they currently hold 3 Ohio state records: lowest score, largest margin of victory, and most team titles for a school.
Jessie was named NFHS state coach of the year in 2016 and 2018 in cross country and 2015 in track. In 2022, Jessie was inducted into the OATCCC Coaches’ Hall of Fame.
Dan Iverson, Girl's Coach at Naperville North High School
Dan Iverson is the girl’s distance coach at Naperville North High School (Naperville, IL). His girls have won five cross country titles and have been top three at the state meet 13 times. His teams have qualified for the Nike Cross Nationals (NXN) five times, and twice finished second.
Alex Lyons
Alex Lyons is an English teacher and former head girls cross country coach at Lyons Township HS (La Grange, IL). In his first three seasons, the LT girls finished fifth, third, and fourth at the Illinois state cross country meet. Athletes also set school records in cross country, the 3200m run (10:42), and 3200m relay (9:09). In 2018, 22 LT girls ran under 6 min for the 1600m.
