Witzer SP

03/02/2025

What frame to you view the world through?

PERSPECTIVE MATTERS‼️

Does your frame let in the light and the good?

OR

Is your frame plagued by darkness and pessimism?

This is not an overnight fix if you lean towards darkness and negativity - but the positive is we are all human, humans evolve and so can you!

Why not start today with the small choices…

To quote the prestigious philosopher Kanye West - “Everything I’m not, made me everything I am”

15/11/2024

04/10/2024

Training in the gym strengthens your muscles. Think of your mind being a muscle that requires training too. Think of difficulties and life problems as the weights, and your minds response as the muscle strengthening. Facing hardship strengthens the mind the same way a weight strengthens the body. We just don’t see the muscle in the mind.

03/10/2024

27/09/2024

Be happy to be the ‘idiot’. Be curious. There is so much to learn through curiosity and by asking questions about yourself and about the world around you. Improvement happens through acceptance of not knowing it all.

26/03/2024

Welcome to The Stoic Athlete

At The Stoic Athlete we are a sport psychology consultancy combining approaches from evidence based practices in sport psychology & ancient practices of stoicism to enhance coach and athlete performance! 💪🏼

Over the coming months keep your eyes out for:

1. Our ‘Introduction to Sport Psychology for Coaches’ course ⚽️🏉🏀

2. Our ‘Introduction to Sport Psychology for Athletes’ course 🏃🏻‍♂️

15/09/2021

A really interesting blog from Georgia highlighting the prevalence of eating disorders within aesthetic sports such as gymnastics and dance.

In sports where athletes are already lean, eating disorders can often go unnoticed by coaches and Georgia highlights the need for an increased awareness!

My previous blog explored the relationship between perfectionism and eating disorders within sport, and highlighted that gymnastics has an extremely high rate of disordered eating ingrained into its culture - in this blog I look to explore why. Aesthetic sports have more subjective judging and are m...

18/08/2021

New blog post!🚨🚨

The ‘Perfect’ Athlete: Eating Disorders in Gymnastics -

Stay tuned for the Witzer SP weekly blog every Wednesday!📝

https://www.witzersp.com/post/the-perfect-athlete-eating-disorders-in-gymnastics

14/08/2021

Small throw back to my last fight 2 years ago!

Towards the end of 2020, my dad was diagnosed with a multi-focal and inoperable brain tumour (totally embedded in the central/front part of the brain) called a Glioblastoma 4 multiform.

Glioblastoma's are a very low-profile cancer in terms of knowledge and research, and this is partly due to the fact of only a 1-2% expected survival rate after diagnosis, with death occurring in the short term for the majority of people, leaving little opportunity to study the tumours.

Having completed an UltraMMA event back in 2019, and seeing another event would be running on the 28th August 2021 I thought this was a perfect opportunity to continue raising awareness of Glioblastoma and continue to give back to the cancer research in the UK.

So many people have been so generous in supporting my dad throughout the past 8 months since diagnosis and we cannot thank them enough!

I know most people will have already donated to our own GoFundMe for my dad specifically, but any donations to support Cancer Research UK would be incredible! Plus you'll get to see a few pictures of me getting beaten up!

Please find the link to my JustGiving in my bio!🔝🔝

11/08/2021

New blog post!🚨🚨

'Creating a Shared Sense of 'Us' in Football' - Dan Witzer

Stay tuned for the Witzer SP weekly blog every Wednesday!📝

Having a shared social identity has been shown to influence team performance at the one of the highest levels of football competitions. At the 2016 UEFA Euros, nations whose players identified more strongly with their team were more likely to show collective passion; improving team functioning and c...