Winning in Sports offers professional coaching for gamers. Our sports psychologist, Dr. Greene, has decades of helping elite level amateur and professional athletes make it to the top and reach their goals. We offer Esports assessments, which will tell us your strengths and areas you need to work on. We then offer one-on-one coaching sessions tailored to your needs so we can help you improve both as an individual player and on your team. Below, we’ll go over some tips for choosing the best gaming coach. Contact us, or visit our website to get started!

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Esports is only projected to grow more and more in popularity, meaning that professional esport individuals and teams will begin to become more sophisticated, and players are going to have to evolve with the sport in order to win.

Dr. Greene can help you and your team perform their best in high level competition. . With his Esports assessments he can identify your team’s strengths and specific areas for improvement.. He can then provide a training program that will turn the team’s weakest areas into real strengths. That’s how your team can make the most improvement in the least amount of time. What are you waiting for? Visit us online today to get started.

Create a Schedule

When you are looking to up your gaming level, it’s time to get serious. Being a professional gamer takes much more than being good at gaming. You have to practice skills, solo work, and teamwork, as well as engage in scrims with other players, in order to hit the top level of peak performance. For that, you will need a practice schedule that you stick to where you engage in focused practice time and you concentrate on certain games, skills, or on teamwork in order to get better. Our sports psychologist suggests that you choose times where you yourself are at your very best, so if you’re a morning person, load up on challenging strategy and skill-building time; whereas, if you are a night person, save the most challenging aspects of your Esports training for that time. There is a time for just recreational play if you just want to take a break, but for the most part, you should be in training mode every time you pick up your game controls.

Stick to the Schedule

On the days you are training for Eports (which should be at least five days a week), you need to adhere to your schedule. Sure, your best friend’s birthday is Friday, so you go out to celebrate, end up staying up late, and sleeping in, messing up your whole gaming practice schedule. While these events do happen, they need to be kept to a minimum, and best case scenario, planned for, so that you can change your off day with a practice day that week in order to account for it. Plus, for team practice time and scrim time, you almost have to maintain a schedule if you want to practice because this is the time others can do it as well. Dedication, hard work, and focus are what will make the difference in your Esports training, so it’s best to take establishing a schedule and sticking to it seriously.

Vary Your Schedule

While training for any sport, be it football, basketball, or Esports, it can be extremely easy to get stuck doing the “same-ol'” and end up not progressing. For example, doing the same circuit with the same exercises at the same weight truly won’t yield you any results. You have to break up your routine, use heavier weights and different movements, if you want to see results. Similarly, with Esports, while having a routine is good, varying the movements, games, and skills practiced within your allotted practice time will be key to your success. This can be challenging, especially if you are focused on one or two games for an upcoming competition. However, pushing yourself outside your comfort zone, from different genres and games to different players in your scrims, will help you to discover other areas you need to focus on.

Include Breaks and Physical Exercises, as well as Meal Planning

Sitting in front of a computer for hours on end can be challenging, especially if you are lightning-focused on building skills for your Esports competitions. This is not only challenging, but it’s physically and mentally draining. Thus, it’s super important that you take care of yourself in all aspects.

You’ll want to ensure you are getting the proper nutrition and not just grabbing a bag of chips, a candy bar, and a soda for lunch. Ensure you are getting a good balance of macronutrients, as well as fresh fruits and vegetables, so that you can feel your best while gaming. Meal planning helps as well. You can prepare your meals for the week ahead, which then makes it super easy to microwave these in-between gaming sessions. You’ll want to ensure you are taking plenty of stretch breaks, as well as more structured physical exercise, such as joining a gym and investing in exercise. Taking breaks from the screen as much as possible and resetting is great for your mental health, as well as doing other activities outside of gaming, such as reading a book or hanging out with friends who are outside the gaming community.

Partner with a Professional Esports Coach or Trainer

There are many benefits to partnering with a professional Esports coach. First, professional Esports coaches often have more experience than you in competition. . They know how to perform well under pressure. They can help you with gaming strategies, teamwork, tips, and pro advice that can help you improve your game. Next, they serve as your cheerleader, always helping to provide motivation for you, even on the days you are on the verge of burnout. Esports coaches also see things you do not, helping you as an individual to perform your best in competition..

Long gone are the days of old where you just sat down, picked up a joystick, and played a video game. Now, for professional gamers, the key to winning is strategizing. This includes not only strategizing for a particular game, but also strategizing for ways to beat their opponents at the game. While there are games that fall under the strategy category, such as real-time strategy games, multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games, and card and deck building games, any game can have strategy involved.

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When it comes to Esports, there are so many factors involved that determine a player’s success. These include knowing the game, knowing the other players, and most of all, knowing themselves. Once all of the factors are determined, a strategy is developed (which can change depending on games, teams, and more) in order to achieve the best possible outcome. One of the keys is having an open mind and being willing to try new things, such as tactics and strategies, in order to take your game play to the next level.

Dr. Greene has developed scientific assessment, tools, tips, strategies, and practical applications for gamers to achieve their goals. As a top-rated sports psychologist, he utilizes many techniques, such as Centering and focusing strategies. He trains gamers to succeed whether individually or as a team. Our approach is specialized. It is based on your unique strengths and areas you can improve in order to up the ante for you. By taking our assessment and investing in one-on-one sessions with Dr. Greene, you’ll be able to game at a much higher level. Visit our website to sign up today!

Give Everyone a Say

Working as a team is all about collaborating and using each other’s strengths to be better than you would be as an individual. After all, everyone has the same goal and that’s to win. One of the worst things you can do as a team is create angst because someone’s opinion was shut down without consideration. Individuals are unique and bring different ideas to the table, which is what makes teams great. When strategizing for game play, ensure everyone’s voice is heard and all ideas are given weight. As a team, you can then decide as a whole which gaming strategies you will choose. You can also eliminate any hard feelings by reasoning out the reason for rejecting an idea or a gaming strategy.

Keep Communication Lines Open

Similar to allowing everyone a say, it’s critical that the communication lines are always open. If a gaming team member has a problem or a concern, this should be voiced right away and a solution found. Many great sports and gaming teams have been broken up simply by a lack of communication. This pertains to personal issues as well that teammates may be dealing with. It’s important that every team member feels valued, which means that their concerns are valued as well.

Be Friends Away From the Game

It’s super important to build camaraderie off the gaming floor as it is on. Knowing each other’s quirks and how they operate can make the difference in the middle of a professional game. Plus, let’s be honest, you entered the world of gaming because it was fun and you enjoyed the people you met and played with. You want to enjoy playing with your gaming teammates as well, so you want to like them and know them on a personal level. Spend some time doing activities in a low-stress environment that does not involve gaming, such as going to dinner, bowling, or catching a movie.

Learn Each Other’s Strengths

On a gaming team, there are many roles to play. It’s critical to designate who will play these roles, and when it comes to the hard decisions, this should be made by data and not feelings. When you take the scientific assessments from Winning in Sports, you will reach a thorough understanding of each other’s strengths and weaknesses and can thus delegate roles on your gaming team using that information. This can be hard when two or more teammates want the same role. However, when you take an objective approach, there are far fewer feelings hurt and your results at your gaming competitions will show. Our Esports assessments are backed by decades of sports psychology research and years of implementation in order to garner your Esports team the best results possible. Contact us today.

Partner with a Professional Gaming Coach

We cannot overstate the importance of partnering with a professional gaming coach if you are serious about taking your team’s play to the next level and achieving the peak performance you desire. Implementing our above tips are great starting points. The value of an outside perspective is integral to any team’s success, including Esports teams. This is why all of the great sports teams in every sport ever played had great coaches and staff members. They helped with team morale, practice, guidance, advice, and strategy. Reach out to our sports psychologist to learn more today.