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Daniel Abrahams
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Daniel Abrahams
@DanAbrahams77
Sport Psychologist (HCPC), consultant, author, and host of @sportpsychshow.
New book - Compete - out on 4th May 2026
- Last week the esports team I work with won an $18,000,000 tournament The coach, players, and management of @TundraEsports had worked tirelessly for 6 months with myself on 5 biopsychosocial pillars to give us our best chance to win Here’s a thread (🧵) to explain what we did 👇🏻
- In the video below Burnley manager Vincent Kompany is coaching one of his centre backs In this thread, I'm going to take you through a model of learning accompanied by some teaching techniques that could be used by Kompany to better help this player learn his coaching points 👇
00:00 - Roy Keane: “It’s just an act…” 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Below is perhaps one of the most insightful clips I’ve watched related to the psychology of adult elite sport (the professional level of sport). Tucked away…silently…in a BBC interview quite some years ago. A small section of an
00:00 - I have 17 years experience working in the Premier League with players, coaches, and clubs A major thing coaches at this level get wrong is how they train players to learn patterns of play Here’s a 🧵 on what they’re doing wrong, why it’s wrong, and how they can do it better 👇🏻
- I enjoyed watching this simple activity set up by Millwall manager, Neil Harris for his players… These kinds of stripped back activities are important for players to practice during a long season of successes and failures…ups and downs… Where can Mr. Harris take these? 👇🏻
00:00 - Luis Enrique with the helicopter viewpoint. From on high…the primary lens of a leader! Perhaps one of the most important skills a coach (or any leader in any domain for that matter) can develop is the ability to place oneself above. Not just above the organisation but also
00:00 - Whether you love or hate Rondo’s, you can’t help but marvel at Barcelona players warming up prior to the 2011 Champions League final at Wembley. There are three mental skills underpinning action-execution every single second in this incredible clip. Attention Intensity Intent
00:00 - Liverpool players speed to warm-up… 5…4…3…2…1… Intensity starts straight away…and with intensity comes intent…a high intent. A game of spike ball…a whole body warm-up and a raising of attention. Players start to connect to bodily cues, movement, actions…and a ball.
00:00 - Self-talk and attentional cues… Athletes can learn to take charge of their mindset through simple mental skills that enable them to execute actions with: -attention (focus on task) -intensity (alert, energised, and ready) -intent (positive execution of actions) Tiny 🧵👇🏻
00:00 - Carlos Cuesta chooses his words carefully. He orients them towards the positive… Perhaps the former Arsenal assistant coach (now head coach of Parma in Serie A, Italy) has read Professor Lisa Feldman Barrett’s book ‘Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain’. In it, the Harvard
00:00 - Pep Lijnders in his new role at Manchester City choosing to gamify in order to mentally activate and direct attention towards important actions within principles of play… Scoring - most important…play forward in possession and attempt to score Counter-attack - next most
00:00 - Below is a video of one of the greatest All Blacks captains talking about ‘journaling’ before he goes and competes In this thread 🧵 I’m going to give you the science underpinning what Ritchie McCaw was doing and also share some ways for you to help your players do the same 👇🏻
00:00 - 10 things that require skills and competencies 10 things that are biopsychosocially driven 10 things that can be coach-influenced I understand why motivational gurus and (some) coaches love this…but a poster like this can shut down appreciation for human complexity,
