Tim Wszalek

M.S. Applied Sports Psychology - Mental Performance Coach 🧠 USSF C ⚽️ Passionate about all things sport psychology 🧘🏻‍♂️

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

If you want to be elite at sport…you are best served considering what I’m saying in the video below…

The idea that you can control your thoughts, emotions, and feelings in high performance sport is nonsense��

But you CAN learn to take control of your responses to them!

And this takes daily practice…

…in every activity
…in every session
…every day

It takes a commitment self-awareness
It takes a commitment to self-talk
It takes a commitment to attention-control

It also takes a commitment to learning about your sport in granular detail so that technical, tactical, and physical competencies also become self-regulation competencies.

That’s what it takes…
That really is what it takes…

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

MATT TURNER COMES UP WITH A HUGE PENALTY SAVE TO KEEP THE USMNT UP 1-0 AGAINST JAMAICA!!! 🔥

WHAT A SAVE 🧤

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Ruben Amorim will join United on Monday 11 November ⏳🇵🇹

#MUFC

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

Players:

Mental rehearsal is an every day thing!

1% of your day is about 15 minutes…take 15 minutes each day to image…

-𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭
-𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞
-𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐲𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲
-𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞
-𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 (𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥)
-𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬
-𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧)

Create a blueprint on your mind and through your body during pockets of two and three minutes here and there…see it and feel it, see it and feel it, see it and feel it.

A blueprint…recreated daily…can go a long way to developing game awareness, game knowledge, meta-thinking (thinking about your thinking), readiness to perform, in-game self-regulation (to name a few advantages of using mental rehearsal)…

“𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆? 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆? 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕?”

Make your inner movie big and bold and bright…accentuating the fine details of your own personal excellence. Accentuating the details that you want to re-create in your next game.

[Tim Wszalek @coachtimw16]

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[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

THE USMNT ARE BACK-TO-BACK-TO-BACK CONCACAF NATIONS LEAGUE CHAMPS 🇺🇸

THE U.S. ARE NOW SEVEN GAMES UNBEATEN AGAINST LLL TRI 🇲🇽

KINGS. OF. CONCACAF. 👑

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

Allow me to reintroduce myself...

[Emirates FA Cup @EmiratesFACup]

AN INCREDIBLE END TO ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE DERBY GAMES YOU WILL HAVE EVER SEEN.

Step forward, Sir Amad Diallo ♥️

@ManUtd have won it in extra-time with seconds to go!!!

#EmiratesFACup

[Dr. Erin Henderson @DrErinHenderson]

Committed high school seniors:

NOW is the time to start mentally & emotionally preparing for college. What got you here won’t make you successful there.

👉🏼How will you handle the new pressure a scholarship may bring or your new playing time?

👉🏼How will you engage your support system when you leave home?

👉🏼Do you know what resources the school has if you need to talk?

Mentally prepare for the challenges, and hope they never happen.

[Tim Wszalek @coachtimw16]

YES

[Prime Video @PrimeVideo]

It’s always been family first. Giannis: The Marvelous Journey, streams February 19.

[Duktig Brand ⚽️📓 @duktigbrand]

The 2023 Duktig Brand FC Scholarship winners are @TashBePunny and @coachtimw16 !!

They will both use the scholarship for continuing coach education and to create better environments for their players.

[Tim Wszalek @coachtimw16]

@CoachMurphyUWL Congrats Murph and team!!

[NBC Sports Soccer @NBCSportsSoccer]

ALEJANDRO GARNACHO BICYCLE KICK AND THE SIUUU CELEBRATION! 😱

📺 @USANetwork

[Tim Wszalek @coachtimw16]

My goodness. Will go down as one of the best in PL history.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Can't believe that.

Alejandro Garnacho: that is simply sublime 🔥

#MUFC || #EVEMUN

[Dr. Erin Henderson @DrErinHenderson]

One of my daughter’s first ⚽️ coaches told parents this:

If what you are about to scream to your kid does not start with the words “Good”, “Nice”, or “Great”, do not say it.

If you’re on the sideline today (like me), try it out and see if your kid notices a difference. Dm me what they say. Would love to hear it.

[Tim Wszalek @coachtimw16]

It’s amazing how quickly soccer parents can go from “REF THATS A PUSH” to “BE MORE PHYSICAL”

[Joe Prince-Wright @JPW_NBCSports]

🔥🇺🇸What a goal from Christian Pulisic, the #USMNT captain, against Germany. Wow.

[Norwich City FC @NorwichCityFC]

𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁.

Check in on those around you.

#WorldMentalHealthDay | #YouAreNotAlone | @samaritans

[Tim Wszalek @coachtimw16]

Lovely bit of build up to create a great chance! Unfortunate not to finish but great play as we talked about keeping better possession at half-time!

[Nate Chatfield @Nate_Chatfield]

90% of the training offered to coaches is technical and sport specific.

90% of the problems we face are relational and people specific.

We need coaches with more emotional intelligence, not just technical intelligence.