Brian Cain's Mental Training for Baseball 3-Pack

LD-04093A: with Brian Cain, Sport Psychology Consultant;
former college baseball coach and adjunct professor of sport psychology; has worked with the Washington Nationals, many NCAA Division I programs across the country and the Martensdale St. Mary's (IA) High School Baseball team who, in 2011, set the all-time National High School Baseball record with 87 consecutive wins

The mental side of baseball is often neglected by coaches due to the time constraints of trying to run a successful baseball program. This video teaches you how to effectively implement mental conditioning into your daily routine making your team more successful on game day. Brian Cain, one of the world's most sought after sports psychologists, provides a number of drills and techniques to maximize your players' performance and shares his proven program for mastering the mental game.

Cain takes the Baylor University baseball team through a series of 45 mental conditioning drills that are designed to give your players a competitive advantage. He describes how coaches can get their players to invest their time in mental conditioning. Through a variety of visual and verbal "signs of success," Cain offers drills that can be used in practice and in the classroom to help your players:

• Gain confidence by learning to control the things they can control
• Develop a routine to control focus
• Improve their ability to concentrate on one pitch at a time
• Become a `champion of character' and creating standards of excellence
• Discover how to handle adversity by practicing the `so what, next pitch' attitude

Cain tells you how to organize these drills into your practice schedule uses explanation and illustrations to maximize their effectiveness. Cain even gives tips on how to make team meetings more effective for the athletes so they can absorb the information better.

Gain an understanding of Cain's "Five F's of Time Management" and why dugout organization is essential to the success of your hitters. Cain also shows you exactly how to set up your batting practice to develop good mental habits for the on deck hitter, in the hole hitter and the fourth hitter in the rotation.

Cain recognizes that all players and coaches learn differently. The mental conditioning drills in this DVD are flexible and designed to achieve the same results through a variety of teaching methods. The drills are presented in a way that allows coaches to effectively implement them into their programs. They also provide players with quick ways to take a negative and turn it into a positive by focusing on `WIN' and the process rather than the outcome.

Repeating mental mechanics in the same way you repeat physical mechanics maximizes performance. Train your athletes how to focus, so they're ready to perform at their best when it counts the most.

79 minutes. 2012.

LD-04093B: with Brian Cain, Sport Psychology Consultant;
former college baseball coach and adjunct professor of sport psychology; has worked with the Washington Nationals, many NCAA Division I programs across the country and the Martensdale St. Mary's (IA) High School Baseball team who, in 2011, set the all-time National High School Baseball record with 87 consecutive wins

Give your athletes the mental tools necessary to be successful on and off the field and take your program to the next level!

Establishing a routine leads to consistency. Consistency leads to confidence. Confidence leads to success. This is the foundation of Brian Cain's 4RIP3 program. This mental conditioning program is essential for coaches looking to get their players to focus on the right things and to perform their best.

In this DVD, Brian Cain outlines simple, yet highly effective, mental conditioning techniques that coaches can implement into their practices and use during games. Cain outlines the 4 R's of the program:

• Routine
• Recognize
• Release
• Refocus

What can the R's do for athletes?

• Provide athletes with the ability to develop a positive mental routine for pitching, hitting and defense.
• Recognize distractions and focus on the things they can control through `green lights' and `red lights'.
• Address adversity and refocus on dominating the moment.

Coaches can also learn how imagery, combined with breathing and verbal `self-talk' can be used to get `mental repetitions' to mentally prepare athletes to compete at a high level.

Coaches must be willing to build champions versus focusing on winning championships. Building champions requires athletes and coaches to invest their time in the 4RIP3 program to develop the mental approach to the game that focuses on creating consistency, building confidence and enjoying success.

The mental game in baseball is undeniably important. These drills have helped teams win championships, now you can incorporate them into your practice to give you team the edge and the mindset they need to win.

39 minutes. 2012.

LD-04093C: with Brian Cain, Sport Psychology Consultant;
former college baseball coach and adjunct professor of sport psychology; has worked with the Washington Nationals, many NCAA Division I programs across the country and the Martensdale St. Mary's (IA) High School Baseball team who, in 2011, set the all-time National High School Baseball record with 87 consecutive wins

Foster the mental skills your players need to perform their best when it means the most.

Ever wondered how champions always seem to thrive under pressure or consistently perform in the clutch? In this concise, information-packed video, Brian Cain gives you a 10-step program to implement proven mental-conditioning approaches and develop mental toughness.

Cain goes in-depth about how to create a champion's mentality. Learn "the power of 30 seconds," what Roy Halladay uses before every game to get focused, how to overcome the two biggest challenges in baseball - boredom and frustration and more:

• Determine how investing time daily in mental conditioning drills can help improve your players' concentration and focus.
• Use the `signs of success' to advertise your team's mental approach.
• Implement the 5-4-3-2-1 technique to put your players into a position for success.
• Identify the difference between the things players can and cannot control.
• Learn how to teach your players to breathe to gain self-control and stay in the moment.
• Discover how confidence can be a choice for your players.
• Understand how to get your players to become great team leaders.

One critical aspect of the mental game is learning how to focus on the process over the outcome of situation. This aspect of the mental game is covered in detail so your athletes will focus on the process of the game and not what may or may not happen.

You will come to understand why it is true that the best team doesn't always win and why. Cain gives you his top mental conditioning exercises that you and your team can do every single day and also gives tips on how to get your athletes involved in the teaching process.

These mental training techniques will put your players, team and program on the inside track to maximizing their mental edge over your opponents.

34 minutes. 2012.