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Thank you, Mr. Terry for the trust and feedback on your website! Grateful for the chance to help you create something that empowers others to grow and succeed.

When I was an athlete at NDHS, I had the privilege of working one-on-one with Terry. To this day, I still fall back on the fundamentals he taught me to strengthen my mindset — whether it’s in business, playing music, exercising, golfing, or everyday life.

That’s the kind of impact Terry makes. He doesn’t just help athletes perform better in sports, he lays a foundation for performance in LIFE.

If you or your kids are athletes or performers of any kind who struggle with confidence, focus, or anxiety, I highly recommend reaching out to Terry Gros, MA, MGCP with Star Performance Sports to see how he can help 👉 starperformancesports.com

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“📣 Back to School. Back to Sports. Time to Level Up Mentally!”

🌟 Elevate Your Mental Game. Unlock Peak Performance. 🌟

At Star Performance Sports, we understand that athletic excellence requires more than physical training—it demands a strong, focused mind.

Our specialized Mental Skills Training empowers athletes to:

✅ Develop unwavering confidence
✅ Maintain focus under pressure
✅ Recover quickly from mistakes
✅ Manage competitive stress and anxiety
✅ Cultivate resilience and motivation

Achieve consistency, composure, and the mental edge needed to perform at your highest level.

Invest in your mindset. Invest in your success.

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The Role of Trust in Optimal Performance

“Trust your ability.” “Trust your training.” These are two pieces of advice that coaches and sports psychologists consistently tell young athletes. Young athletes know the benefits and importance of trust, that’s not the problem. The difficulty lies in how to trust during critical moments of games.

What does it mean to trust your abilities?
Self-trust is the knowing that you have prepared for “THIS” moment. The countless hours spent in practice and training have readied you to succeed in crucial moments. Self-trust is the understanding that you have produced in the past and achieved your current level of success which proves the case for your ability to perform. Self-trust is a powerful game-changer for athletes, giving you a sense of control that you can perform optimally in any game condition.

How do you trust your abilities?

Seize the opportunity. Be excited for the opportunity to reveal your talents.
See yourself succeeding in the situation. Athletes get into trouble when they fear they are going to fail.
Remind yourself there is no failure. Every competitive experience can teach you to play better in future games.
Be positive. Every athlete will have doubt creep into their thinking. You do not need to buy into those thoughts which, most likely, are not based in reality anyway.
Stay present. Let go of past games. The past, including the last play, does not have any direct impact on your present on the present play. The outcome causes anxiety and takes the focus off what you need to do right now.

Max Scherzer: A Great Example of Self-Trust

Max Scherzer, starting pitcher for the New York Mets, is a former Cy Young winner and has been a dominant MLB pitcher for many years. Scherzer had an MVP-like first half to the 2015 season with the Washington Nationals, posting a 2.11 ERA and holding opposing batters to a .185 average. After the All-Star break, Scherzer struggled with a 6.43 ERA and recorded no wins in August.

Despite the difficulties Scherzer experienced, he stayed positive, confident and focused throughout the rest of the season. Scherzer trusted his ability to make pitches which resulted in his second no-hitter that year.

The key to Scherzer’s performance was his trust in his pitches; he didn’t over-think, over-analyze or worry about the results. Scherzer didn’t complicate things. He was immersed in the moment of just pitching.

SCHERZER: “You always simplify to one inning at a time. It doesn’t matter [what inning], you are always trying to go out there and get outs… If you want to be a dominant pitcher, you look at what you can control… going out there attacking the zone, being aggressive.”

Remember, you cannot totally control the end result. Stay focused on your game and your ability to produce no matter what the circumstances.

The Mental Tool Shed: Strategy to Develop Trust in your Abilities

Identify your strengths as an athlete (physical strength, speed, technique). These positive aspects of your game have contributed to your success in the past. Use these strengths as reminders of your ability. If you can focus on your strengths, you will be able to be aggressive instead of worrying about the ‘what ifs’.

By: Terry Gros
Sports Mental Conditioning Coach

HOW TO MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE.

How confident are you that you can perform at a high level on a consistent basis? More so, how confident are you in your ability to play your best when the chips are down?

Playing when your confidence is lacking is a performance killer. Most times when athletes have low confidence, it will affect a player’s level of play over the course of several games and, possibly, throughout a season.

Think of a time when your confidence was at an all-time low… You probably were filled with dread and didn’t look forward to playing at all. You may have not even wanted to be involved in the team for fear you would mess up and let your teammates down.

When confidence is low, your physiology changes: your shoulders slump, head hangs down, breathing becomes shallow, muscles tighten, and you don’t see the field of play as well. All these factors put you at a disadvantage over your competitors.

Confidence is a sort of “been there-done that” proposition. The question is how can you be confident if you have never “been there”? The answer is you have been there, you just don’t know you have been there. Confidence is negatively affected when you focus on your failures. When you define yourself by your successes, confidence rises. When you realize you may not have been is this identical situation before but have been in situations where you have come from behind, overcame obstacles and succeeded under pressure, not only does confidence rise, you physiology (Head head, shoulders back, efficient breathing, improved focus) in enhanced. You have now placed yourself in the best position, mentally and physically to succeed.

Derek Carr was the fourth quarterback selected in the 2014. Though being selected in the second round, Carr has outperformed the three quarterbacks selected in the first round of the 2014 draft. In his 2014 rookie campaign, Carr had a solid season throwing for 3,270 yards and 21 touchdowns but he also threw 12 interceptions and was ranked 28th in Total QBR (Quaterback Rating of 38.2). Some would say Carr has been there (He is a starting NFL quarterback), not has not yet done that (winning only 3 games in 2014).

It is Carr’s stable confidence and focus on his strengths that enables him to play with passion and energy.

CARR: “I always feel very confident. There is never a time in any game that I’m not confident in myself, in my ability.”

Carr knows he can play in the NFL and his confidence is even stronger than it was a year ago. It is Carr’s confidence that has pushed him to prepare and play at even a higher level.

CARR: "You have a whole offseason to prepare. You know what to work on; you know what's going to happen. You've already played in the games, already seen it… I'm definitely excited and ready to compete."

Confidence is the key to optimal performance and it is strictly a matter of how you define yourself. When you focus on your past successes, you will be able to take greater leaps in your level of play.

The Mental Tool Shed: Strategy to Develop Confidence

Write down a list of successes… those times when you played at a high level, when you felt unstoppable, when you played with the highest of confidence. Play these mental tapes prior to each game. These personal highlight reels will keep your mind focused on your strengths and successes and put you in the proper mindset to succeed.

By: TERRY GROS
SPORTS MENTAL GAME COACH

TESTIMONIAL
JAMES MCCLEARY
DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR
NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL

Do you...Play great in practice but under-perform in competition? Lose confidence when you don't perform well in your sport? Have trouble focusing or tense up in pressure situations? Have trouble letting go of mistakes or errors when competing?