Many athletes don't take full responsibility for their own confidence prior to competition. Instead, they react to what happens at the start of the game. These athletes must first obtain positive results before they feel confident. You don't want your athletes to take a backseat approach to
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Tips for Coaches
What Undermines Your Players Confidence?
For some players, confidence can be very fragile. For example, if they make just one mistake they can lose confidence quickly. You'll want your athletes to be aware of the top ways they lose confidence in their game.
You also want to focus on specific beliefs players maintain that limit their
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Confidence Coaching
As a coach, you must commit to working on confidence as much as helping your players improve their skills or learn a new technique. Most importantly, you want your players to have stable, enduring confidence when challenged by doubt, negative thinking, or lack of immediate success.
When your
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Team Captains Help Cultivate Confidence
Confidence is a mindset not just for your individual players but for your whole team. A group of confident players supporting each other makes for a very confident team. As a coach, you are not alone in supporting your team's confidence. Team captains act as a liaison between players and coaches, so
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Self-Confidence in Sports Defined
The definition of self-confidence is how firmly you believe in your ability to execute a physical skill or perform a task. That's right, confidence is how much YOU believe in YOUR ability. Confidence is derived from a baseline assessment of past performances, training, and preparation. As your
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Coping With Challenges
In a perfect world, you and your team would never lose focus and you would never encounter disruptions in play, but no plan ever turns out perfect. Things happen that are beyond your control, but your team has to prepare itself proactively so you can rebound quickly. Athletes should prepare
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Addressing Fears of Failure
Fear of failure and perfectionism is so prevalent in my work with athletes that it is becoming rampant in athletics. What you may not know or understand is that perfectionists with fear of failure are highly motivated individuals who want badly to succeed and reach their goals.
But many of the
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Identifying Performance Cues
A performance cue is a thought, feeling, and/or piece of information athletes have in mind to help perform a skill. Defining performance cues for your sport and specific position is essential for your athletes concentration. You should also know the cues that are not important to your performance. I
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