We're diving into how disciplined thoughts are absolutely central to the mental side of any sport.

When we started 360U 10+ years ago, our goal was to give athletes a place to train where we could provide a focus on both their mechanics and their growth and development as a person. We want our athletes to compete at the highest level of course, and many do, but let’s look at the stats for a second...

If you’re a parent of an athlete, you want your child to be confident. But as parents, we walk a tightrope. How do I encourage competition without creating pressure? How do I challenge them to grow and be better, but not cause them to fear failure or think they're 'disappointing' me or others when they do fail? Here are a few ways you can help encourage your athlete to COMPETE, without piling on the pressure.

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. We’ve all heard that one a million times, right? Well, how does the way we handle situations as parents affect our athletes…let’s explore!

Creating a space where athletes are allowed to have patience with themselves and patience with the process is absolutely critical for their success in sports, but gives them the framework to do so in school and in life. Here are a few things we do at 360 to encourage patience towards progress...

ncouraging athletes to open themselves up to try new things and to push themselves outside of their comfort zone will set them up for success in their sport and give them the confidence to see 'failure' as a part of the process of progress!

Visualization is a tool that many great athletes use to help themselves feel and experience success without ever actually stepping foot onto the field. Simply visualizing ourselves doing something great can put ourselves in a favorable, positive state of mind and help clear out any of those negative "what-if" situations that so often pop into our head when preparing for competition. It's so natural to second guess ourselves as athletes. We've seen many athletes over the ye

Our routines as athletes become our approach to any given situation, and can set us up for success...or failure! In a game with so many variables, we need to do everything we can to control those things that can be controlled - such as our body language and self-talk!

In a sport filled with failure, adversity and imperfection - we need to prepare our athletes with the right tools and strategies to respond to failure, to create a positive environment for them to practice failing in, and to re-define their overall expectations of what "success" and "failure" is for them. Mental toughness is this week's focus at 360U. Over the last 15+ years of administering private instruction, coaching athletes at all ages and levels, and having a wealth of

At 360U this week, our instructors will focus their classroom discussions around the idea of being intentional in everything we do. Helping our athletes understand the difference between 'quality' vs. 'quantity' reps will set them up for more focused, productive training to ensure they're reinforcing the correct habits and mechanics during their practice. Not only does this concept of training with INTENT prepare them more mechanically, but also gives them confidence and se

What does it take to jump off the page?  To get a star penciled in next to your name at tryouts or practice?  To be someone that coaches...

This week's "Word of the Week" at 360U is SELFLESS. This is one of our favorite 'mindset' topics to talk about with our athletes during our classroom time. In a sport where it's SO easy to focus on yourself - your stats, your at-bats, your errors, your batting average - it becomes very difficult to manage that additional pressure you put on yourself. We can very quickly get caught in the trap of playing for those numbers , rather than playing for our team with the simple goal

Coach Maria here -- I wanted to share a bit about our " Word of the Week " this past week at our 360U Softball & Baseball Facilities. Our word was " VULNERABLE" and we had so many great discussions with our athletes on this topic. We continue to learn so much from our athletes, and are so energized by seeing them learn from our experiences with some of these concepts. Our younger athletes spent time learning about what it means to be ' vulnerable ' and how it can help us

At 360U, our mission is to help athletes develop into the most confident version of themselves on and off the field.