When players feel prepared, they also feel confident. An important task in mental preparation is the ability to anticipate challenges you or the team might face in competition. The ability to think ahead to the challenges you may face and have strategies in place is the best way to prepare your
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Tips for Coaches
Developing Team Leaders
Coaches should choose responsible and respected team leaders as their captains. Your team captains have a huge impact on your team's success. It is much easier to help athletes further develop their leadership skills than to start from scratch.
Look for leaders when structuring your team such as
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Assessing Your Athletes’ Mental Game Needs
Post-game assessments are a great way for coaches to gain insight into your athletes performance needs. These are paper and pencil self-assessments that help you get feedback shortly after the game. You should make the questions open-ended so they can't just say yes or no to your questions such as
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Enhancing Team Trust
To enhance your athletes' ability to play freely and as a unit you must instill trust among the team. Start by helping everyone identify their specific role on the team, and relate how all roles are important to the team success.
In a team meeting, ask the group to share their concerns for
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Letting go of Mistakes
As a coach, you should help athletes who get angry or frustrated with their performance. You don't want them to shut down in the middle of a game. First, your athletes need to understand the confidence-expectation connection. Strict or high expectations can undermine and suck the life out of
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Relaxation and Mental Calmness
My philosophy about training for relaxation and mental calmness is that you must learn strategies that go beyond physical relaxation techniques. You can learn all of the popular relaxation exercises you want, but these are just a band aid approach to the symptoms of anxiety and worry about
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Well-practiced Routines
The primary responsibility of the coach to help his or her team to prepare to play at a consistently high level. A lack of a consistent pre-game routine may be one challenge that leads to inconsistency. Pre-game routines are the key to consistency.
Regardless of who you are playing, make sure
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