Rob Polishook, Mental Training Coach, M.A. C.P.C www.insidethezone.com
Rob Polishook is the founder and director of Inside the Zone Sports Performance Group. As a sport psychology and performance coach, Rob works with athletes and teams helping them identify their goals, develop strategies to reach them, and strengthen their competitive mental skills. His work with athletes concentrates on issues that may block individual and team performance such as nervousness, lack of trust, and poor team cohesiveness.
Rob works as the Mental Training Coach for Lee Hurst’s 360 High Performance Tennis Program where he conducts workshops, interactive players circles, 1 on 1 session with players, and parent interventions. His unique approach focuses on the athlete as a person first and a performer second and the Coach-Parent-Player triad. Rob’s genuine manner encourages both athletes and teams, on and off the field, to work through peak performance issues using self-awareness, trust of self, and the natural process of brain/body intuition. This unique inside-out approach encourages and empowers self-choice, responsibility, and positive change. Rob’s focus is to help athletes and teams perform in a relaxed and confident manner. Ultimately, this means that athletes are able to reach a point where they do not over-think competition or results, but trust their hours of practice, preparation, and instincts with the objective to compete at the highest level possible.
Internationally, Rob has presented innovative sport performance workshops, seminars, and keynote speeches nationally and internationally. Most recently, he presented to India's top junior players in Bangalore, India at the Karnataka Lawn and Tennis Association. Rob worked on the court with India’s top juniors demonstrating innovative applied sport psychology present-moment awareness skills. His workshops, on-and-off the court, were featured in four of India’s regional newspapers. Rob's award winning presentation entitled, “Breakthrough on Break Points - Concentrate to Win”, was featured at the Israeli Tennis Center to an audience of coaches and sport psychology staff at their flagship location in Ramat Harashon, Israel.
Nationally, Rob has presented workshops for Seton Hall and Drew University’s Varsity Tennis teams. Additionally, Rob has presented at the US Open for the USPTA Eastern Division Coaches, USTA CTC programs and the annual Intercollegiate Association (ITA) conference for college coaches in Naples, FL and the annual NJSIAA conference for New Jersey High School Tennis coaches. This summer he will be speaking at many high performance USTA- Eastern venues on the Topic of Championship Parenting and Gaining the Mental Edge.
Rob has written articles which have been published by the USPTA and USTA. He has earned a Masters degree in Counseling and Psychological Studies with a concentration in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Seton Hall University (SHU), and has completed his Certification in Sport Psychology from SHU, and is a Certified Professional Coach from IPEC, an international federation coaching affiliate. Rob is an accomplished 5.0 tennis player and USPTA certified coach. He has coached the NJ State Champion in 2006, and received the 2007 Coach of the Year Award for High School Women’s tennis. And also received the 2008 USPTA Eastern Divisions High School Coach of the Year Award. This summer he will be a 16 and under zonal coach for the USTA team.
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