Articles, press and podcast

Liane Langendorff-Bax · May 11, 2026

Why children perform better in practice than competition, and how to support them under pressure without adding to it.

Leon Bax · Oct 8, 2025

Athletes need good routines that contribute to performance. Learn which components are essential and how to use them as effective building blocks.

Leon Bax · May 17, 2025

Mental preparation and recovery routines are critical for performance. Integrate mental and physical routines with our PRO Zone to perform to potential.

Leon Bax · Dec 14, 2024

Learn about the SPECs model and how it can be a critical tool for understanding unproductive behaviors and facilitating change.

Leon Bax · Oct 15, 2024

It is commonly suggested that venting reduces anger and aggression. Multiple scientific studies show it does not. The best alternative is preventing!

Shannon Escarra · Aug 15, 2024

Shannon Escarra on what six-hour training days and a four-inch beam taught her about mental fitness, and what she carried into coaching at 2Mynds.

Leon Bax · Jul 24, 2024

What the NCAA's mental health guidance asks of athletic departments — and why preventative mental fitness training reduces the load on support staff.

Stefanie Allen · Jun 15, 2024

The off-season is for more than recovery. How to use it to come back in better physical and mental shape than you left.

Leon Bax · Jun 1, 2024

Stressors are not the same as stress. How the stress response works, why its bad reputation is unearned, and how to turn it into usable energy.

Leon Bax · May 17, 2024

Not every moment is equally critical. How to recognise the ones that are, and spend your attention where it actually decides the outcome.

Leon Bax · Apr 5, 2024

Sports psychology is invaluable, but prevention through training is underused. How training built on exercise physiology adds to it.

Leon Bax · Mar 15, 2024

Mental skills work under pressure only if they were trained there. The simplest way to arrange that is the cool-down of the session you already do.

Stefanie Allen · Mar 1, 2024 · Updated Oct 22, 2026

How 2Mynds started: Leon Bax on a Dutch judo childhood, the questions it left him with, and the method that eventually came out of them.

Leon Bax · Feb 16, 2024

Tension is not a warning sign. Treat it as a resource you can use, and it changes what you can do under pressure.

Leon Bax · Feb 2, 2024

If how you finish matters, the only thing deserving your attention is how you get there — and the finish line is a distraction.

Leon Bax · Mar 14, 2022

Modern life keeps the mind contemplative when performance needs it operative. What the Flow 255 method trains, and how it fits together.

Leon Bax · Jun 25, 2026

THRIVE and GRIT bring structured, measured mental training to professional sport — building a mental edge, then tracking whether it actually holds.

Leon Bax · Jul 13, 2025

Players at the Dutch Open ATP tournament get complimentary access to the 2Mynds PRO Zone — mental preparation before matches, recovery after them.

Leon Bax · May 9, 2025

An exclusive offer for UTR Sports players, parents and coaches: mental fitness training for the part of tennis and pickleball that is not physical.

Stefanie Allen · Sep 13, 2024

2Mynds and ICL Academy partner to give students in sport, music and performing arts structured mental performance training.

Leon Bax · Jun 20, 2024

USTA Northern California partners with 2Mynds to bring structured mental fitness training to athletes across the section.

Leon Bax · May 3, 2024

Leon Bax on Mental Health Awareness Month, the NCAA's findings on collegiate athlete wellbeing, and why 2Mynds trains rather than treats.

Stefanie Allen · Nov 7, 2024

Will Yanagisawa continues: how a touring professional handles pressure, setbacks and the mental work that keeps a long career going.

Stefanie Allen · Sep 30, 2024

Former touring golf professional Will Yanagisawa on the mental side of high-performance sport, from Stanford's 1994 NCAA champion team onward.

Stefanie Allen · Aug 7, 2024

MIT men's tennis head coach David Hagymas on what it takes to be a student-athlete at MIT, and how his team used mental fitness training.

Stefanie Allen · Dec 8, 2023

Chris Moore on what mental fitness did for his daughter Michela's tennis, and how it prepared her for four years on the Dartmouth team and beyond.

Stefanie Allen · Dec 8, 2023

Michela Moore and Anushree Shekhera on finding their way to college tennis — Dartmouth and Cal Poly — and the roadblocks they hit getting there.

Stefanie Allen · Oct 26, 2023

Giuliana Olmos, then ranked seventh in WTA doubles, on what keeps her happy on tour and where she puts her attention when things stop going well.