Gary 'Smiler' Turner

Sports Performance Expert

Are you a sportsperson who is looking to achieve the best performances, consistently? I work as a Sports Performance Expert, and this is what I look to deliver for you. Clients report to me many issues with their performances, and recently I have worked with the following:

• Nerves, worry, anxiety, fears and panic attacks
• Removing mental blocks
• Attention during performance – maintaining performance
• Arousal level – creating, maintaining and consistently achieving the best state of mind and body
• Improving technical ability
• Correcting mistakes – whether past performances, training issues, or during a competition, and removing negative emotional responses
• Motivation – for every element of performance from nutrition rest and recovery, to training, to preparation, to competition
• Managing emotional responses
• Focus and sensory awareness
• Managing self-talk
• Speeding up reactions
• Mental Rehearsal – for technical improvement, what-if’s, to experiencing an event prior to competing, perfect performances, time distortion and more
• Recovery from hard training and competition
• Injury management
• Self hypnosis
• Team building and coherency
• Coaching skills, language, beliefs, values, motivation, how a coach or trainer can get the most from their clients

My clients now know the benefits of my Psychological Skills Training across all areas of their performance. Every top athlete knows that the mind is more important than the body in achieving optimum performance. Without the mind, the body doesn’t perform. And this is where I can help.

Having been a World Champion many times, in several sports, I know exactly on a first hand basis what is required to succeed at sport. My experience has taken me across the world, large arenas with live television coverage, to every element of competition as a top level international athlete and everything that it involves.

And behind the scenes I have carried out the necessary work to achieve this. I’ve endured deliberate training, the technical aspects, the conditioning, and the nutrition and recovery. Taking my body beyond what it is capable of and a little bit more too. I know how to work with my support team of coaches, trainers, managers and with medical support. I’ve literally been through the blood sweat and the tears. I’ve been through sacrifices, the highs, and the lows. I’ve felt the ecstasy of being on top of the world. I’ve had the lows from a devastating loss and having to pick myself up again. I’ve been there; I know exactly what the complete experience of being a top level international sportsman is like.

As a Sports Performance Expert I work to help sportspersons become the best that they can be. I work from the standpoint of Psychological Skills Training. I utilise my skills and knowledge from hypnosis, psychological interventions, sports psychology, cognitive linguistics, and neurology to ensure that I treat every client as the individual they are, and to help them get to where they need to be. I use the right skills at the right time.

I am not a sports psychologist – I am far more than that. I also work alongside any existing coaches and trainers to help complement their work, although I work directly with the individual and team clients.

Although working primarily within the fight sports industries I have the ability to break down and isolate requirements from other sports from a mental down to a technical level. I can work with any sport at any level.

If you want to contact me to book in, or just wish to have a discussion about the way I work and the services I offer, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

To book in for a one-to-one appointment with me please contact via:
Email: gary@garyturner.co.uk
Telephone: 07879 624646
Location: Church Crookham, Hampshire 

Testimonials

AB From Farnborough writes:

"Being an exercise specialist and personal trainer I realise the importance of conditioning both mentally and physically. I went to Gary to achieve optimum mental state ready for the biggest sporting event of my life and without any doubt I have un-questionable positive results which have allowed me to significantly up my game.

I would recommend anyone looking to achieve optimum state in any walk of life to engage Gary’s services as you will not be disappointed"

AQ from Camberley writes:

“I have known Gary now for about 4 years, through training MMA and Kickboxing; it wasn't until recently that I started training more with him that he mentioned to me about his new discovery of hypnotherapy and NLP. I was first slightly skeptical and unsure what all of this was yet I was looking for ways to improve my confidence when fighting or sparring as my last 3 fights did not show case all my talent and I had a few mental blocks which Gary identified just through talking to me for half an hour. The 2 part was then to help cure these problems. I was again in 2 minds that he could do this in one session, again, however I was willing to try any thing.

We did this session and I came around feeling totally relaxed and at peace, the feeling was some what euphoric. I wasn't too sure what actually happened I just felt amazing. Gary mentioned it was take a few days to sink in to my sub-conscious and a few days later I went training not feeling any different until I placed my gum shield in my mouth. Rather than feeling nervous I was overwhelmed with a feeling of being sure I got what it takes to win and almost invincible but only to the point where I wouldn't make mistakes, I sparred and normally people who got the better of me I was dictating the fight at my pace and had them on there back foot and I was seeing openings everywhere with so much time to react. After that I've only got better and the only thing limiting me is my skills to fight not the mentor blocks of nervousness and getting worried about a punch coming toward me. He has help me improve my game to the next level which in turn makes me a more complete and happy person I would strongly recommend Mr Gary turner to anyone it's all VERY worth it!”