My name is Claudiu(o) Cristea, born and raised in Hermannstadt (Sibiu/ROU), but lived half of my life in Switzerland. Sport has accompanied me since I was six years old. I have more than 12 years of experience as a professional athlete. My sports career has taught me how to deal efficiently with stress but also with success, so that even in difficult situations I can always stay motivated and keep fighting.
Why sport mental coaching? As a child, I was very athletic from the start, I tried out a lot and then focused on football, where I then reached the top division as a competitive athlete. I took the first steps in the direction of training and coaching in sport with my studies, but also successfully completed my B.Sc. Sport Sciences, with a major in football, in 1996.
I learned that in sport but also in life, a lot has to do with your own attitude. Unfortunately, I couldn't really influence my performance, using mental tools, at that time, because those times were different and the sport psychology and mental training were not very well known. I realized very early how important mental training is, but have only come closer to this subject in the last few years, during my time as a youth football coach and especially since my son, got passionat about tennis.
Based on this thema I wrote an e-Guidebook for tennis parents "The Tennis Parent Coach" which can be found on Amazon.de. It deals with the steps that tennis parents need to take in order to enable the successfully start in tennis for their kids.
Professionally, I have been a IT manager for more than 20 years, have a degree in business administration (MBA) and and a B.Sc. in Sport Sciences. My goal as a sport mental coach is to guide athletes successfully towards fulfilling their sport goals.

Relevant Education:
Dipl. Sport Mental Coach, Sport Mental Akademie Zürich, 2020
Cert. Sport Mental Trainer, Sport Mental Akademie Zürich, 2019
Leadership Philosophy, 2016
M.B.A. Corporate Strategy and Competitiveness, University of Wales, 2013
Situational Leadership Applied, 2012
Positive Power and Influence, 2012
B.Sc. Sport Sciences, University of Sibiu, 1996

Why mental training?

A purely physical conditioning is not enough anymore in professional sports if you strive to achieve steadily increasing performance. In addition to optimal physical preparation, the importance of mental training in sport has become increasingly important. Mental training enables you to develop, increase and use your performance potential. With a targeted mental training you get to know and consciously develop your own body and its resources. Through conscious perception of your own thought processes, relaxation methods before great stressful situations, through optimal preparation for competitions, through strengthening of your willpower and stamina during the competition, through targeted, inner imagination of upcoming tasks and right focus and concentration at the right time, you will achieve your optimal mental performance.

The Sport Mental Training will make a lot of things possible. Below you will find a short summary:
* Mental preparation for competition (mental strength and self-confidence in sport)
* Improve your sports results and reach optimal performance
* Concentration training: optimal focus and concentration during competition
* Goals Coaching: achieve sports goals that previously seemed unattainable
* Developing potential in your sport and dealing with the environment
* Achievement of your current maximum sport performance and optimal performance
* Overcome fears and release blockages in sports
* Mind-control and relaxation for athletes
* Positively handling emotions during competition or practice
* Sport mental coaching for self-regulation and self-control
* Optimize performance: video analysis

I’ll am accompanying you through the entire process, and will be helping you, with your first steps on the way to your personal sport success.

What I can offer?

* Short-term interventions: burst your performance by using personalized mental tools.
* Goal supervision: individual, goal-oriented and competent support to reach a specific goal
* Competition Coaching: support athletes in achieving their competition goals and driving them to peak performance
* Online mental coaching: for location-independent athletes who are looking for an effective mental training, I can manage thru video or audio calls. The online sport mental coaching is also a personal contact and enables a conversation "like in the same room".
Arrange here a non-binding first session. You can contact me using the form below. Tell me about your sporting goas and let me support and accompany you until you reach them.

Digital products offering (see my Instagram account):
* Create your favorite quote on your favorite picture: $/CHF 1
* Create your favorite quote on your favorite wallpaper: $/CHF 5
* Create a print ready fully customized poster: $/CHF 5
* Create fully customized 10-15 min guided mental visualisation for sport practice: $/CHF 10
* Create fully customized 20-30 min guided mental visualisation for technical practice: $/CHF 20
* Fully customized 30-40 min guided mental visualisation for before match preparations: $/CHF 30

Price

A sport mental training or coaching lasts about 60 minutes and it usually takes place in my physical or virtual Coaching Room. Competition coaching or at the training location are also possible on demand.

* Adults hourly: CHF 120.–

* Juniors hourly: CHF 60.– (up to 18 years or age)

* 10 Lesson subscription Adults: CHF 1000.–

* 10 Lesson subscription Juniors: CHF 450.–

* Competition Coaching: a flat rate can be agreed