Monday, 9 October 2017

How Can Mental Coaching For Athletes Make You Better

By Michael Davis


Competent coaches must know the responsibility they hold to ensure their athletes reach the best of their potential. By instilling a positive attitude and open to talk to, the athlete feels valued and appreciated boosting their self-esteem. The athlete will, in turn, give more of themselves and push harder as their enhanced confidence will give them more reason to believe in themselves. A coach should remain calm and be aware how put-downs, critical, sarcastic comments can undermine an athletes confidence. The coach should avoid shouting as it may undermine them in the eyes of the athlete and in general improve his Mental Coaching for Athletes.

Often coaches are quick to tell an athlete what is wrong, but often ignore what they do right, or give little encouraging advice. It's invaluable to point out how things can be improved in a positive manner and equally important to show their athlete encouragement in what they have done right and any progress their hard work has made.

In fact, an athlete who always engages a negative thought with the hollow phrase, "I think I can, I think I can, " like the infamous little engine that could, is simply affirming the pessimism by engaging with it and allowing it a place on the stage.

This is an art that takes some time to develop and perfect, but the more artful you are, the more innovative your training becomes, and the more outcomes you can find for your clients. Think of coaches as painters, with easels in front of them. But, instead of the coach taking the paint brush and painting a picture, they will help guide the client to paint their own picture.

Negative feelings might, in fact, serve a different purpose - they assist you to see, with clarity, where you need to improve. So if you attempt to wrestle them down with positive affirmations or visualizations, you make them true and provide them the power to truly affect you.

Avoid making last minute technical or tactical changes, giving complicated instructions, new moves or strategies. Often it is just a means of stress relief for the coach. Some athletes appreciate a word of encouragement or reassurance; many prefer to be left alone in the final moments before a performance to gather their thoughts and focus. Let the athlete know a coach is available, If they need any input, they will ask.

Psychology is a discipline designed to work with people who have problems, issues, or disorders, and coaching is used with people who are healthy, but who want to achieve more happiness or success in life. However, the psychology has been appropriated by the coaching industry and is commonly referred to as positive psychology. The psychology of coach principles in the 21st century includes this discipline which once was only used for people with mental disorders or diseases.

The ultimate goal of coaching psychology is to use techniques that can support clients to understand how to overcome obstacles, how to get in touch with their inner resources, and how to create effective action plans to improve their lives and reach their goals. The psychology of coaching is all about bringing more tools to coaches and allowing them to have specific and measurable methods to help improve and enhance their client's lives.




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