Bruce Petersen

I am a first year head coach of a small high school cross country team in CA. I would highly recommend Mental Skills for high school runners. 

There was so many things that helped us. One of the many things we talked about as a team was "Self Awareness" and what your paying attention to during practice and during a race. It helped us tremendously in starting to build a competitive program. 

 

I appreciate everything you do. Thank you!

The best thing about the course is that there is something in it that every runner can improve on. 

No matter how mentally tough someone is, there is something here to help them. 

The goal with mental training is to help the athletes be prepared for how taxing the championship season can be and I believe this program helped accomplish that very thing.

As a coach I found the course to be a great value. There were so many things I was able to take away that I know will help my athletes going forward. 

Helping athletes work on their mental skills is a very important and challenging part of the job and having this resource has really made a difference.

Isaiah Remington

I enjoyed this course for a couple of reasons. 

Firstly, it was broken into meaningful chunks that I could easily fit into my busy teaching/coaching schedule. It didn't feel like a daunting task to watch each video one at a time and I didn't have to give up a whole afternoon to attend a Zoom session. 

Secondly, I felt the value of the course material was fair. Getting to have a mini-clinic at a fraction of the cost was a nice selling point. 

The loose focus plan alone was worth the cost of the course for my team. 

Once I implemented that skill I saw an increase in my team's performances. Those who didn't outright PR did feel much less anxious about their races, which was worth the cost to me. 

I will certainly include this plan in my coaching from now on.

The best thing about the Mental Skills Course is that it has tools and skills that I used immediately upon listening to the lectures. 

The amount of information that is covered in the course is amazing and one would be hard pressed to find speakers that are at the top of their game and willing to share that information. 

This course helped a few of my boys who were lacking confidence and helped them not only PR but help our team qualify for the Texas State XC meet. 

Our girls team also qualified for the state meet and I can attribute some of that success to the Mental Skills course. 

Thank you again for developing such a course for coaches and athletes.

I learned so much from this course and plan to watch it over and over again. It makes a great reference and motivator and makes me feel more confident as a coach!

Hi Jay. I’m writing this from Turin airport, Italy. On the way to the west coast of Ireland.

I coach in a club setting there and we had two young athletes(juniors) compete for Ireland earlier. Both had wonderful experiences, winning one individual medal and both winning team silver. 

I really enjoy your mental skills course and found it hugely beneficial . 

Firstly it is great value for money. 

I like the mix of practical information and also the backup to support this. 

Shannon Thompson was super in her delivery and her messages. 

Jacob was also really engaging and the breathing exercises he gave have great value. 

More importantly I have begun to implement some of what was delivered via your course and the feedback from my athletes is positive. Many thanks. 

Kind Regards. Pat Hogan (Coach at Ennis Track Club)

The best thing about this course was simplifying a mental race strategy for my athletes. From the concept of a "loose plan..," I formulated a simple race plan to establish, commit, and compete, that, in a word, worked well for the girls. 

The course goes into far more detail, and was well worth what I paid. This education of the mental aspect of racing, most definitely, helped my team achieve in our biggest races, whether it was County, League, CIF, or State Finals. 

The sports psychologist woman from NAU is fantastic. 

 Dennis Kelly--Trabuco Hills HS Girls Cross Country

Being able to provide athletes with strategies to help them focus, whether it be for a workout or race, is a great tool to have as part of their overall improvement.

I really found the videos I was able to watch contain a lot of value. I knew if my athletes could preform many of these task for example visualization, 10 steps, box breathing and power posing, we could finish the season successfully. 

 

I felt the course was a great value for the content. 

Over the season many of the videos we would pull discussions from and have team talks over, the runners found a lot of value in hearing others talk about visualization techniques that transformed how they raced at certain courses. 

When we got to the state course we walked over most of it and took time to talk and visualize each segment and break it down for the following day. They went out and executed to perfection what was needed to PR and win a state title. 

 Thanks Jay for your help this season.

Because of our team’s youth we were have been looking for ways to positively influence their “racing IQ” and spur their development as competitors. We also moved up a class so improvement was of the essence. 

 

As soon as Coach Jay’s mental training course became available we started implementing “loose race plans” and visualization as part of our training. 

Instructions were clear and over the course we were able to home those skills with our athletes. 

The results speak for themselves.

Great course for all athletes and coaches. I shared a lot of the strategies with the my runners and I can tell it has helped when focus as well as stay calm during times of adversity. 

I have been using the breathing techniques for myself as well to help reduce stress. 

This is an excellent course which adds more tools to my coaching toolbelt, well worth the money.

As coaches and athletes, we're all focused on doing the right workouts, eating the right foods, and getting enough rest. 

 

But one of the most overlooked areas of performance is the athletes' mental preparation. 

 

If you want to take your athletes' mental game to the next level, check out Coach Jay Johnson's Mental Skills for High School Runners. 

 

My team is already finding value implementing strategies I've learned from this course.

Even though I did not purchase the mental skills course until halfway through the XC season, what I did learn from it greatly helped my team and I. 

Although I wasn’t able to get through the whole course, the “loose” plan and race visualizations were game changers for our XC program. I’m looking forward to utilizing the rest of the system for track this spring and XC next summer. 

It’s definitely something that all programs would benefit from, as the mental aspect of running can change the outlook of a program, from preparation to execution of a race. Thanks Jay!