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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iPeak Coach Tips
Coping with Frustration After Mistakes
More than 40% of sports parents and coaches say that their kids become easily frustrated or angry after making mistakes. As a sports parent you must attempt to help them better cope with disappointment and setbacks. Start by explaining to your young athletes that mistakes and setback a just a part
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Zoning-out In Competition
Do you feel like you go to sleep or zone-out during competition? Athletes who have experienced this don’t vividly remember all the choices they made during the game because their mind is traveling elsewhere. Going to sleep happens when you don't feel challenged or don't have a clear game plan for
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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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Supporting Your Child’s Performance
Parents sometimes have their own agenda about their kids' athletic experience. Kids need to play for their own reasons. Parents' agendas can sometimes feel to kids like unstated expectations. Remember that the primary goal for your athlete is to have fun in sports.
Young athletes use sports as a
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Social Approval and Making Comparisons
Athletes who seek social approval (or worry about what others think) tend to compare themselves to other players or let what others say and do affect their confidence. It is important for you to focus on your game and not worry about others.
Focus on what you are doing well and not what others
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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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Help Your Kids Attain Their Goals
In addition to establishing goals for competition, your child can also establish and monitor goals for practices. This will help them stay committed on track. Obviously, the type of goals your child aims for will depend on his age.
A 5 or 6-year-old's goal may simply be to have fun, make friends
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