Find your mental skills strengths and weaknesses so you can start a mental training plan that's right for you.

Take the AIMS, the Athelte Inventory of Mental Skills. This free test will help you discover your mental skills strengths and weaknesses. Just take the short questionnaire, click the button to send it to The Extra Gear, and you'll get back your results!

The experience of pain is influenced by mental factors. Here's how relaxation and imagery can help.

Welcome to the first podcast from The Extra Gear’s “Big Brain University!”

Tips for athletes, parents and coaches on how to get the new season off on the right foot.

If you’re training hard but aren’t improving, you may be headed towards burnout. Find out how to recognize and prevent it.

How to use imagery to get psyched up and motivated when you're feeling flat. In this podcast I mention Bobby Thomson's "Shot heard 'round the world." Here's the link to that story.

What is sport psychology? Hear me discuss mental skills training with Jim Long in an ESPN radio interview.

Hear the latest podcast on how to build your sport confidence with simply goal-setting techniques.

Learn how to build your sport confidence by using effective goal-setting techniques.  

Learn how to stay confident when things go wrong in your sport by using this deceptively simple technique. 

Need more motivation? Find out how. Check out some quick tips for psyching up in the latest issue of Sports Backers Quarterly.

In this episode Dr. Blackmer gives a crash course on sport psychology consulting with athletes, including what techniques are used to help athletes compete at their peak.

Hey, sport parents - Check out my mental toughness training camp for 7th-12th graders at Collegiate school in Richmond this July.

Get your season off on the right foot by using these simple yet effective goal-setting procedures.