Competition is a natural part of childhood development and self-discovery. Just like anything else, competition in sports has advantages and disadvantages. A sport, by definition, is competitive and competition can help athletes grow in many important ways.
Kids can apply the lessons they learn
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Four Top Fears for Athletes
It’s not enough to know that you have fear of failure. What’s more important is to know what type of fear holds you back. Here are the top four fears for athletes and as you can see, fear of failure often is related to what you assume others think about you.
1. Fear of losing a match, game, or
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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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Help Kids Manage Expectations
Often, sports kids have unrealistic or even irrational beliefs that hurt their confidence. Many young athletes expect too much of themselves and easily lose confidence when they don't perform up to their expectations. Sometimes, sports kids think that they need to wear the same pair of underwear
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Confidence Brings Success
To compete at the top of your game you need to have confidence in your ability to succeed. Having confidence offers you an advantage over your competitors because confident athletes play more relaxed, focused, and aggressive.
Accepting when you do not play well, instead of being hard on yourself,
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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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Why Sports Kids Lack Confidence
Most young athletes often lack confidence for three reasons: (1) They do not know how to improve--other than with more practice. This is very common for young athlete. (2) They have a fragile state of confidence; their confidence changes rapidly when they are not successful of lose. (3) They had a
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Practice Applying Mental Skills in Competition
Many athletes have trouble applying mental skill to competition because they do not practice these skills. When mental skills are well-learned, they can easily be applies to competition. It is important that you improve your mental skills in practice too.
Specificity training helps you practice
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