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NEW! TRAIN SMART FOR COMPETITION™—30-DAY CHALLENGE

So Your Good Game Transfers into Competition → START NOW

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Cheryl McLaughlin | Sport & Performance Expert • Coach • Speaker • FounderCheryl McLaughlin | Sport & Performance Expert • Coach • Speaker • Founder

Cheryl McLaughlin – Sport & Human Performance Expert, Coach & Speaker

Founder of Compete Like a Champ™<br>Developing healthy, confident and successful players and leaders for life

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Cheryl McLaughlin’s Compete Like a Champ™ Train Smart Workshops

Built in Practice • Powered by Science • Proven for 40+ Years

Practical, Science-Based Training to:

♦️ Think, Train and Compete Like Champions
♦️ Stay Healthy
♦️ Transfer Your Good Game into Competition—with More Ease

Welcome Coaches, Pros and Leaders!

Cheryl McLaughlin, founder of McLaughlin Human Performance and the

Welcome! And thank you for stopping by to learn more about my Compete Like a Champ™ Train Smart Workshops.

Competing in sports is one of the most powerful, challenging and growth-producing experiences you can have as a person and a player.

Developing the healthy, positive, high-performing and fun mindset and culture and the essential skills we need to lead ourselves and others to bring out our best—on and off the court in the midst of great challenges—are extraordinary gifts.

These gifts are rare (but they don’t need to be). Like Champions, they must be intentionally developed, nurtured and protected

But when you’re facing intense challenges in the pursuit of wanting to break through to achieve something great you desire, it’s essential to understand that:

Our brain — and the way it naturally works to keep us alive and safe — doesn’t want us to break through and be great! It wants us to back off and be comfortable.

This has important implications for how we train. From my 40+ years of practice as a coach and sport/human performance scientist studying the brain and how we need to train it along with

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being trained by, coaching with and studying Olympic and Champion Coaches—I learned how Champions Train Smart and Keep Things Simple. And the way we trained every day made it so much easier for our good game to flow into competition.

Mental training, while it is important, it’s not enough. Champions focus on building strong habits habits in our brain, mind, body and game — and execution of our good play—even at crunch time so that, in the words of Roger Federer:

“If you want to win a grand slam, every cell in your body needs to know that it’s the only right way to play.”

I’d love to have the opportunity to share these powerful tools and training with you through my consultations, club or team training presentations below, or my Compete Like a Champ™ Online Course. Let me know how I can be of help to you here.

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COMPETE LIKE A CHAMP™ TRAIN SMART WORKSHOPS

TRAIN SMART SO YOUR GAME TRANSFERS INTO COMPETITION

For Players, Teams, Staff Training, Junior Development Programs and Clubs
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*My speaking and presentations are primarily virtual with a lot of Q&A (that’s the best!).
Presentations can be customized to fit the needs of your group.

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