Sport psychology History Modern Sports Psychology
Today there are two types of sports psychology, academic and applied. Academic sports psychology focuses on doing research about sports psychology. Applied sports psychology uses that research to teach people in the athletic field. Today there are three main areas of focus in applied sports psychology. They are what kinds of certification, education, or licenses people need to practice applied sports psychology, the need to provide a certain kind of training for people who are studying applied sports psychology,  and creating new techniques or ways to help athletes while using applied sports psychology. The future of sports psychology and how it advances depends one thing. This thing is the kind of laboratory studies and research that is done in the field. Future studies should use large sample sizes or include a large number of people in the study, they should use multiple types of sports,and they should use multiple types of ways to measure an athlete's performance. They should also use research teams from outside studies in order to create more accurate results.