Internationally Acclaimed Mental Performance Coach Jeff Troesch Shares 150+ Sports Psychology Concepts Used by Professional Athletes

November 4, 2025

Troesch has helped pro athletes master mental skills for 35 years in the major leagues, Olympic sports, and NCAA

San Luis Obispo, CA / November 4, 2025 /ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – 80/20 Publishing announces the release of One Day Better: Mental Performance Concepts to Transform Your Game and Life by Jeff Troesch, the acclaimed mental performance coach for professional athletes and major league sports teams. In One Day Better, Troesch shares 150 mental skills concepts refined over 35 years of experience working with elite and professional athletes from the world’s most popular and high-pressure sports: the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS, golf, tennis, Olympic sports, and NCAA collegiate sports programs. The mental training approaches revealed in One Day Better have launched, lifted, or extended the careers of hundreds of pro athletes who are household names. Equipped with these concepts from Jeff Troesch, coaches, athletes, and youth sports parents can explore proven techniques for how to focus, reduce anxiety, boost confidence, overcome a performance slump, develop resilience, tighten discipline, and stoke motivation so they can go the distance or make the play, season after season.

One Day Better shares ideas that have helped elite amateur and pro athletes gain a mental edge. Troesch distills the principles of mental discipline into clear lessons that can drive long-term personal development and immediate gains in performance, helping athletes and coaches navigate common scenarios:

• How to regain focus amid distractions
• Managing pressure when the stakes feel high
• How to build self-belief and confidence
• Ways to cope with destructive self-talk
• Managing emotions during training and competition

After working with thousands of athletes from all levels of ability, Troesch says everyone has a unique path to stronger mental performance. One Day Better is a playbook for the mind, revealing ways coaches, athletes, and sports-minded parents can ask the relevant questions, adopt effective sports psychology principles, and elevate the mental game. By applying these proven mental performance concepts, athletes can become one day better, every day.

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LINKS TO CURRENT EVENTS

• Sports psychology and mental performance skills coaching are in high demand as American parents invest heavily in their children’s youth sports experience and seek a performance edge. The Aspen Institute says the average U.S. sports family spent over $1,000 on youth sports last year, a 46% increase since 2019.
• In its 2024 parent survey, the Aspen Institute found that 20% of parents believe their child could play in a Division I college while 10% think their child could go pro or compete at the Olympics.
• Parents at the high school and middle school level are hiring private soccer tutors, golf instructors, and tennis coaches, inspired by “gone pro” stories like the Williams sisters and Tiger Woods.
• Following popular books on performance like Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, Angela Duckworth’s Grit, Matt Fitzgerald’s How Bad Do You Want It? and Chasing Mastery, One Day Better offers athletes access to proven, practical skills from Troesch’s 35 years of hands-on experience with athletes.
• According to the Aspen Institute’s Project Play report, the youth sports industry earns $40 billion annually, over 4x more than U.S. revenue of the film industry ($9 billion) or music industry ($8.5 billion).
• The New York Times reported in its 2025 story, Youth Sports Are a $40 Billion Business. Private Equity Is Taking Notice, that private equity firms like Unrivaled Sports are investing heavily in youth sports manufacturers, facilities, and coaching service providers.
• The Florida youth sports training mega-facility IMG Academy, where Jeff Troesch once coached young athletes, was purchased for $1.25 billion in cash in 2023. To attend this boarding school and sports academy, students pay $85,000 per year.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeff Troesch is an internationally renowned mental performance coach and expert in mental skills training and performance enhancement. Over his 35-year career, Troesch has directly coached athletes and teams that have won the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA Finals, and the Stanley Cup. He has coached pro golfers on the PGA and LPGA who have won majors and dozens of other tournaments. In tennis, Troesch has coached winners of all four Grand Slams. He has coached world boxing champions in three weight classes and several UFC/MMA fighters including a world champion. Troesch has worked for the Seattle Mariners, Detroit Tigers, the U.S. Soccer Federation, USA Track & Field, IMG Academy, David Leadbetter’s Golf Academies, UCLA, Cal Poly, and Stanford. He helped develop the VS training system, a mobile brain training device previously used by teams in the NBA, MLB, and NFL.

Troesch has coached Olympic athletes in every Olympic Games–summer and winter–since 1988. He has helped Olympians to medal in men’s and women’s swimming, men’s and women’s 800m, men’s basketball, 100m hurdles, pole vault, steeplechase, 1500m, decathlon, golf, tennis, soccer, archery, and women’s beach volleyball. He has also coached Olympic athletes in downhill and mogul skiing, biathlon, bobsledding, snowboarding, ice hockey, curling, softball, equestrian, water polo, boxing, mountain biking, cycling, and women’s gymnastics.

In NCAA college sports, Troesch has coached members of teams who have won the NCAA Championships in men’s basketball, women’s golf, women’s tennis, women’s cross-country, women’s hurdles, and multiple Conference champions in multiple sports.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
80/20 Publishing is a boutique publisher specializing in works that explore the world of endurance sports–from the science of training to inspiring stories. Built on the success of best-selling author and coach Matt Fitzgerald and his partnership with 80/20 Endurance, our catalog of guides taps world-leading experts, coaches, and writers to chart a course toward better performance, deeper passion, and a richer understanding of the human spirit. Learn more at 8020books.com.

MEDIA CONTACT

Jeff Troesch is available for interview and for background or comment on current and upcoming sporting events. Media review copies of One Day Better are available for a limited time. Excerpts from the book are available for republication in print and online with advance, written permission of the publisher.

Renee Jardine

Publisher

80/20 Publishing

renee@8020books.com