Train Your Brain. Elevate Your Game.
The Brain Room: Where Sport Science Meets Cognitive Performance
If you’re already training your body for peak performance—why leave your brain behind?
At The Brain Room, we help serious athletes unlock their full potential through structured, sport-specific cognitive training designed to sharpen attention, increase processing speed, and boost mental resilience under pressure.
This isn’t generic “brain games.”
It’s systematic, measurable training for your mind—designed like a strength and conditioning program, but for your brain.
GET FIT College trainer Abi Gardiner performing dual task cognitive training with her class.
What We Train @ The Brain Room
✅ Attentional Capacity
Improve selective attention, situational awareness, and sustained focus—even under fatigue.
✅ Processing Speed
Accelerate your brain’s ability to take in, interpret, and respond to complex sport scenarios.
✅ Flow State Access
Prime your nervous system to drop into flow faster and more frequently—where everything slows down and you perform at your best.
✅ Cognitive Endurance
Build mental stamina and decision-making precision deep into the second half or extra time.
✅ Peripheral vision
Widen your useful field of vision to see more of the play in front of you.
"I trained with The Brain Room as a junior and I absolutely loved it! It was so good for my focus and helped me to improve my ability to make decisions on the pitch which is important wherever you play. But especially for me in the centre of defence. I find it crucial for my game.
Wini Heatley, Matildas & FC Nordsjælland
Brain Room sessions delivered
Athletes brain trained
Average cognitive improvement
National & International Champions
How It Works: A Sport Science Approach to the Brain
We apply the principles of progressive overload—sets, reps, volume, intensity—to your cognitive system.
Just like a gym program, our brain training follows a carefully sequenced path of:
Baseline Testing – to identify strengths and target growth areas
Targeted Drills – that simulate real-time cognitive demands of your sport
Progressive Complexity – from simple focus tasks to dual-tasking under pressure
Measurable Gains – tracked over time, so you can see and feel your progress
Brain Room founder Rob Gronbeck, BPsych(hons) presenting to athletes and coaches from The Cairns Academy of Sport.
"When Rob first asked me to come and have a look at the system I thought he was taking the piss... I did not see how this could benefit the group or anything along those lines.
I'm happy to stand here now as a testimonial for the work Rob is doing at The Brain Room. If the player wants to commit and go and do it repeatedly, it does work. As a coach saying that, watching my players - and some of these guys I've been working with them for a while now, some of them for three years.
In the short time that they've been doing this (the ones that have gone only a handful of times... NO, it's not going to work). The ones who've committed and gone and seen him on a regular basis, I'm happy to go on testimonial that I believe this is improving the player. In regards to their focus, their positional awareness, peripheral vision, all those types of things.
So if you're in a sport that does something similar along those lines I'd be going to Rob and seeing him at the clinic, definitely.”
Brain Room founder Rob Gronbeck, BPsych(hons) and Australian Kendo representative Alex Kambara and WKC Bronze medallist training for the 2016 Kendo World Championships, featured on WIN NEWS.
Why The Brain Room?
Because the best athletes don’t just train harder—they train smarter.
We combine:
Elite-level cognitive-perceptual tools.
Evidence-based sport psychology principles.
Tailored training protocols and periodisation.
Deep experience working with elite and aspiring pros across football, basketball, hockey, volleyball, kendo, motocross and more.
If your performance depends on sharp decisions, fast reactions, and staying composed under pressure—this is your missing piece.
Trusted by Leading Sporting Clubs & Organisations
The Brain Room is the innovative approach to training psychological factors for athletes across all levels and all sports.
We’re all tracking GPS, sleep, Heart Rate Variability and physical load... but what about COGNITIVE LOAD? Isn’t the brain the organ which runs it all?
Rob has trained 100s of athletes, been interviewed on TV, news and podcasts, written dozens of articles and blogs, and is an expert in cognitive training for enhancing mental stamina, reading the play, and performing under intense cognitive stress and load.
Brain Room founder Rob Gronbeck with Dale Padion, Kendo Australia's World Kendo Championship Bronze Medallist.
"Rob is a pioneer in athletic performance development and does some great work with the latest training techniques at his specialist clinic. I'm sure he and his athletes will go from strength to strength."
Are You Ready For Brain Gains?
Whether you're recovering from injury, heading into pre-season, or pushing for a starting spot, now is the time to train what others neglect.
📍 In-person at The Brain Room (Melbourne) or remotely from anywhere.
📈 Fully guided, fully measurable, and built around your goals.
👉 Book your free consult or start training today.
Click below and Rob Gronbeck, BPsych(hons) will bring The Brain Room to your club to demonstrate how we assess and train cognitive abilities in junior, elite, and world class talent.
2x Australian Motocross champion Jackson "Jatz" Richardson doing advanced race simulation training at The Brain Room in 2014.
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