Parents, young athletes come up with a lot of reasons for resisting mental training. They’ll tell you that their coaches and peers will think they’re weak if they embrace mental training. They’ll tell you they’re already tough. Your athletes will say their coaches don’t think mental training is
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Do Your Athletes Delay Confidence?
Athletes are responsible for their own confidence prior to competition. However, some athletes wait until the competition is already underway to decide how confident they should feel. These athletes delay their confidence until they have seen positive results that indicate to them they are allowed
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Control the Raging Monster Within
You cannot perform your best in sports unless you can stay in control – in control of your emotions during competition. I am sure at one time, or two, you got upset, frustrated, or angry with yourself and it cost you the game or match. How well you can recover from errors will depend on your ability
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Help Sports Kids Set Goals
Goal-setting is important to help young athletes reach their dreams. Setting goals can improve motivation, focus and dedication to their sport. Goals helps athletes improve their weaknesses and structure practices. Setting goals is one of the most important ways to experience success in sports and
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Help Athletes Strive for Success
Very dedicated, hard-working athletes who have fear of failure make the classic mistake of focusing too much on avoiding failure rather than striving for success. Your athletes either strive for success or try to avoid failure and mistakes. Athletes who are anxious when they perform or often worry
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Why Athletes Dwell on Mistakes
Mistakes or errors occur every day in sports and life, but many athletes sabotage their own performance because they simply can't let go of past mistakes. Missing shots, double faulting, and losing an important game happen often in the sports world and become a thorn in many athlete's mind.
Why
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Communication with Sports Kids
After a competition, parents too often launch into analyzing their kid’s performance--at a time when kids aren’t ready to listen. They also give too many tips related to practice. Kids don’t see their parents as experts, even when parents have valuable information to share.
Parents need the
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A Balanced Mindset for Performance
Two types of mindsets are important for your athletes' success. The practice mindset is characterized by high dedication, unwavering motivation, commitment to goals in sport, analytical behavior, improve technique, strive for perfection, the need to look good, and focus on future improvement.
On
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