Chalk Talks

150 mental performance positions just disappeared. But the bigger story is what the Army is moving toward: holistic human performance. As mental performance is integrated into the Army's Holistic Health and Fitness model, it's time to ask a harder question: Does Mental Performance Coaching belong under sport psychology at all? Read why this shift could change what athletes expect, what performance professionals are trained to do, and who gets to define the future of mental performance.

Most people still think the human body is a bag of bones wrapped in muscles. It isn't. The more Sports Energy Medicine work I do with elite athletes, the more convinced I become that we're coaching an incredibly intelligent living...