Hi! I'm Maeve! I wanted to re-introduce myself for anyone new here. This month marks 13 years since my ACL surgery after a contact tackle in rugby gone wrong (at a time in the game where we were up 37-0!).
That injury, along with a few others down the road, led me begin exploring the mental side of sport just as much as the physical side.
What I've found is that it becomes impossible for athletes to grow without an intentional attention to mental performance. No, this doesn't mean therapy - no shots at therapy, because we know the world would be better place if everyone did that!
Being supported by sports mental performance does not mean you are depressed or struggling in a clinical, psychological way.
Sports mental performance can be:
👉struggling to focus on the next pitch after hitting a batter
👉learning to set effective goals for the coming lacrosse season
👉overcoming the unforeseen obstacles and challenges of rehabbing an injury
The goal with mental performance is to allow your physical training to be even more locked in!
Outside of sports performance coaching, I:
-have played hockey, soccer, rugby and Irish danced at collegiate and elite levels, and have run a marathon 🏒⚽🏉
-compete in Olympic weightlifting for Team Ireland🏋️♂️
-love local coffee shops ☕
-have a goal to visit all the National Parks in the US 🌲
-complete jigsaw puzzles (a hobby I picked up when in recovery from my surgery!) 🧩
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I help driven athletes find breakthroughs in performance by addressing mental performance blocks.
Typically, these athletes have:
👉 Gone out of their way to try and figure out how to progress on their own, but have plateaued
👉 Set up aggressive goals for themselves that they're willing to do anything to make happen
👉 Gotten to a place where their sport-specific coach can only take them so far
I help those athletes get focused on their measurable and trainable components of sport, trust the process on the mental side of the sport, and progress rapidly towards the goals they say they want to attack.
The goals are the end game, but the fun and joy comes in the process it takes to get there.
For more details on coaching, DM "ATG" to set up a call.
I help driven athletes get through mental roadblocks on the pathway to challenging and aggressive goals.
Here's how it works:
1️⃣ Start with an evaluation. In order to know where you're going, we need to know where you are!
2️⃣ We create an individualized, step by step plan together!
3️⃣ We meet regularly to keep you on track and on target with the goals that you've set.
Want to see progression on the mental side of your game?
DM the word "INTERESTED" to get connected with more information about how to get started.
Athleticism translates from one element to another.
By being an exceptionally well-rounded athlete, picking up Olympic lifts was just another skill to learn for her.
But if we hadn't focused enough on Long Term Athletic Development early on (proprioception, plyo metrics, basic strength development, intentional work after injury), then undertaking Olympic lifts would have been a bigger project.
Athleticism translates.
Build athletes first, don't chase shiny things.
This girl is an animal.
I'm the last six months, she's put on 8 pounds of muscle, added 60 pounds to her most recent squat variation, and been a force in golf.
Now that she's strong *enough*, we've been working on her RSI (ground contact to vertical jump height).
This translates to her swing because of her need to change directions from her back swing to get everything out of that load.
As we've done this, her yards on the course have shot up.
@ovrperformance is a wonderful tool, if you know how to use it effectively...
When people give me things I can wear or use, I think of them when I wear and use them.
This hat and desk decoration was given to me by an athlete who lost her senior season to a first meet collision at the finish line.
Not every season goes how you imagine.
Not every ending belongs in a made-for-TV plot.
But if you keep showing up, keep working hard (which can look so many different ways)... It's going to pan out. It's going to make a difference.
I swear by that.
Huge congrats on your level up, Mallory! 🫡
From a foot injury to becoming the fittest woman in Ohio State's ROTC... It's been a ride.
Being in your corner has been so. Much. Fun.
Can't wait to see where you end up next!
If something is valuable, measure it.
@ovrperformance on bar speed and jump data has been an invaluable tool for improvement for the athletes I work with whose explosiveness is their deficit.
Big things coming from them and from me.
Celebration in the process is a must.
But a lot of times, people look at the celebration and just want that.
They have no idea what it actually takes to get there.
Celebrate your wins, absolutely.
But reflect as well on the moments it took to get to that point.
I'm certain it wasn't what you thought it would be.
Training speed once a week intentionally is enough to kickstart speed development.
Measuring speed weekly shows that we're on the right track.
This needs to happen in season, and can't wait until season is over.
Since Bryce has started working with me, we've rehabbed an old broken foot, put on about 20 pounds, and dropped a tenth of a second off his fly ten.
Training recently hasn't been easy, but it's paying off big time.
It takes what it takes.
@bschiming.21
ACL tears happen at a higher rate in females.
ACL tears happen in correlation with menstrual cycles.
And yet... Most performance coaches are men. Most people don't train female athletes equitably.
If the research shows significant differences, why wouldn't you approach training for elite female athletes differently?
