The Mental Game
The Dog Agility Blog Event for Wednesday December 4th, 2013 was on the topic:
“The Mental Game”
Here are the articles bloggers contributed. If you are a dog agility blogger please join us for future events!
- Michele Fry’s Agility Dogs – Training and Competition: Agility – The Mental Game
- Marsha Houston’s 2-Minute Dog Trainer: Marsha Houston’s 2-Minute Dog Trainer – The Mental Game
- Agilebrainz: On Mental Management
- Training the Family Cheerleader: Mentally Exhausted
- AgilityNerd: Remembering Courses and Conquering Missed Walk Throughs
- team small dog: Mental Games, where we play along to figure out if an eternally grateful, spotless mind brings about dog agility success, or as Mental Baseball player ex-Giant current Dodger Brian Wilson, tells us, Fear the Beard.
- DuncanDes : Dang, this hill is steep!
- Days of Speed and Slowtime Mondays: Horse Whispering – Managing Your Mental Game
- Bad Dog Agility: How Your Mindset Affects Your Agility Performance
- Agility Boxers: The Mental Game
- Trials of an Agility Neophyte: Set Your Goals AND Enjoy the Moment–A Pro-Goals Rebuttal
- Flying Poodles: Diving into my brain and coming up with a Q
- Agility on Stumps: The Mental Aspect of Agility: Get Outside of Your Mind
- The Dogs Are Really in Charge: Getting Your Dog’s Head in the Game
- LaTerre Terriers: A Rehash of Why I Like the QQ
- Going Mental: Simple words for a simple (but not easy) concept
- Baussie Dog Agility: My Mental Game
- JumpFast.net: I like Squirrels….
- Going the Distance: The Mental Game
- Thoughts on the sport of dog agility and the training of the team: The “How To” guide for Multiple Personalities
- Agility Addict: Virtues Matter More than you might think
- Secret’s Journey: Mental (mis)Management
- Mufaasa and Me: Leave the Ring Nerves out of the ring. Yes, it’s that easy, and that hard
- Semper Fido Blog: Mental Management
- Hillbilly Gibberish: Playing Games with your Mind
- The Brews Brothers: The Infamous MACH / PACH-itis
- Running on Instincts: Handler Focus isn’t just for dogs!
- BenMcfuzzylugs: The Mental Game
- Mary-Anne’s Agility Blog: On Managing the Space Between Your Ears (The Mental Game)
- vermont dogs: I think, therefore I’m happy!
- The Global Warmers: Chillin be Thrillin
- Life and Times of Team Whisner: Remembering why you do this…the mental game
- Riffing: The Mental Game of Agility
- Team Creative Dogs: Attitude and Gratitude
- The Mental Aspect to a Physical Sport: The Mental Aspect to a Physical Sport
- the border collie blog: Are you prepared?
- Un-Still Life With Cavaliers: What Lies Within Us
- The Blue Hound Beagles at WordPlay: Brain Game pain
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I really love all the different perspective that people are offering. Great topic.
I am not a blogger but I am a very enthusiastic dog agility participant — at least I hope I will continue to be a participant. I have a few thoughts about the “mental game” from a very different perspective. With 2 bouts of pneumonia and a broken knee in the past 8 months I’ve been struggling to regain stamina and lung capacity. These set backs would normally just suggest patience and work. But at 78 they pose a different question: is this the end of being able to do agility? Thus my mental game, as I have begun retraining both me and my running companions, is to convince my body that it can run again, that its not over until its really over.