Envisioning excellence is the first step to reaching excellence. Excellence in every part of one’s life is a decision, and a Do-cision. Do-cision is a word Terry Orlick, author of In Pursuit of Excellence, invented meaning you actually do what you decide you are going to do. You choose to excel and fully commit. You are able to choose to dwell on the negatives or focus on the positives. Focus drives consistent high level performances, especially when the focus is positive in nature. Performance, good or bad, is based in focus. Quality preparation and practice is also dependent of one’s ability to focus. To be able to have quality focus you have to learn from feedback, make little improvements, corrections, and learn from watching professionals. …show more content…
Trying too hard and pushing too much is not the answer, it can work against the athlete’s performance. The goal is to free the mind to perform rather than forcing the body to do something without connecting it to a purpose and focused thoughts. Thinking about positive possibilities and the passion for your pursuit prepares and helps you overcome obstacles when performing. It can also be helpful to think about negative possibilities and how to overcome them. This creates a plan for all outcomes and will reduce anxiety. Mental imagery provides an opportunity to create a better reality, allowing you to deal effectively with problems, challenges and events in your mind before you confront them. Mental positive imagery is also effective when coming back from an injury because you can repeat success in your mind. The human brain cannot distinguish imagined experiences and real experiences. It requires a large number of successful experiences to create a net of nerve cells (neuronets) in the brain to perform at high skill levels with consistency. Some Olympians even put clocks in their imagery to ensure timing. The mental skill of imagery requires persistent use, it is effective to do 10-¬15 minutes of quality …show more content…
Some characteristics of great coaches include: encouragement, believing in their athletes enough for them to overcome tough challenges, making their journey enjoyable, respectfully listening, valuing input, commitment, dedication, pushing athletes to their limits, focusing on enhancing confidence and truly caring about the athlete’s well¬‐being. Positive communication is the key to great coaching relationships. Positivity also plays a huge role in team work and team spirit. Helping each other, believing in each other and being genuinely encouraging can raise the team dynamic and performance as well as individual performance. Harmony in a team is when the teammates look for the good qualities in each other and feed off of each other’s drive, determination and positive
As I have asserted, coaching is far more than winning or losing. A coach is an essential cog in shaping qualities such as sportsmanship, competitiveness, self discipline, and work ethic. A quality coach can build a player up while a bad coach can tear them down. My goal as a coach was to always leave the player striving to be the best they could be. A good coach
However, this is not really a direct correlation to the coach’s effectiveness in a particular sport, being that there are many other factors in coaching a team other than game records. The coach’s job is to enhance the athlete physically, socially, and psychologically, winning is only considered a by-product of that job (Gillham, Burton, & Gillham, 2013). Gillham, Burton, and Gillham (2013) focused on developing a Coaching Success Questionnaire-2 to allow a means of evaluating other aspects of a coach’s interaction with their athletes as both a research and coach development tool. A sample group of athletes at the varsity and club level ranging from ages 18 to 25 was used to develop the questionnaire by asking their perceptions of their coaches.
In order to see outcomes in this area of improvement, we as coaches must re-evaluate not only our athletes, but, in addition, our coaching styles. Of course, we all want to tell ourselves that we are great coaches and it's the athletes who are not following direction...
...as about the same in each case (roughly 10%). Thus the deficit is not specific to musical imagery, it appears to be a more general deficit in melodic tasks. In other words, the melodic deficits we learned about in Chapter 10 seem to apply regardless of whether subjects are working with real or imagined notes. The take-home conclusion is that both musical imagery and musical perception appear to involve regions in the right temporal lobe.
A proper coaching philosophy contains principles which improve character development, teach step by step tactical and technical skills, form proper progressive physical training regimens, and carefully utilize team management to handle and control problems with administrative issues. A coach with a sound philosophy should mold a team with strong cohesion, and he should treat players not only as teammates, but as family and friends who are encouraged to develop communication and lifelong learning of skills through positive support and role modeling from the coach (Mergelsberg, 14-15). The philosophy should also contain written documents of implemented strategies and techniques, so that the coach will know what to improve upon season by season
And because of the obvious problems with anxiety, there are a few key ways that show how treatment helps athletes out. So finally, after years of research on the effects of anxiety and treatment, it is imperative that athletes get help from a professional in order to obtain maximum performance. Bibliography Bird, Anne Marie and Horn, Melanie. “Cognitive Anxiety and Mental Errors in Sport”.
Therefore, we can only achieve the best performance through focusing on pursuing perfection; this means:
Coaching, however challenging, is a great way to influence the lives of others while also building their character. For as long as there have been sports, there have been people teaching the sport to the players and making them better at it. Coaches must have certain qualities in order to obtain success. One must also look at a coach’s motivation for his job, his passion for what he does, his methods for coaching, and how he became a coach in order to fully understand him. There are many questions someone may want to ask a coach about his profession if they are interested in coaching.
Sports psychology continues to evolve in order to ensure that comprehensive and evidence-based psychological services are available for athletes and teams. Giving athletes an understanding of their psychological functioning, and building the ability to implement a range of psychological strategies in competition enables athletes to both execute their skills and thrive under pressure as they strive to reach their performance potential.
Schuster et al. (2011) focused on how best to implement mental rehearsal, taking into consideration a range of strategies and variables, concluding that in order to receive the most effective results, three mental imagery training sessions should be implemented per week, though this number was also dependent on the length of the sessions as well, suggesting the most effective amount of mental imagery trials per training session was no more than two per minute. A significant finding that should be taken into consideration on whether musicians can benefit from mental rehearsal strategies is a decline in the positive benefits of mental-rehearsal over time, suggesting that if mental rehearsal was to be implemented it should be done so through a refresher training as opposed to a continuous strategy. Driskell et al (1994) also provided empirical evidence for optimal duration of mental rehearsal strategies, suggesting that shorter sessions may be more beneficial as lengthier one’s may lead to loss of concentration, with an optimal duration being 20 minutes. Beyond loss of concentration other negative affects that may factor into the relatively short optimal duration is boredom, due to the previously mentioned lack of
In today’s society being a coach can be extremely complicated especially compared to earlier years. Coaching requires not only many technical and personal skills but also has to include positive psychology that will affect all athletes regardless of gender, age, and race. After reading various articles this leads me to the question, what is a coach? How do coaches differ from one another? In addition are we forgetting the importance of not only coaching but the sports psychology aspect of coaching overall? Regardless of what you may have read or heard I believe not only do all coaches have their own coaching style but every coaching technique and style is different. Coaching styles and positive psychology are two techniques that can provide
Motivate the motivation, simple words that can mean some much to an athlete, but what is motivation really? In the games and sports, psychological and physiological factors play an important role in determining the performance level (Grange & Kerr, 2010; Schilling & Hyashi, 2001). Motivation also plays an important role in determining the performance level an athlete, but plays a role in the psychological and physiological factors as well. Motivation is more than a behavior or idea, it is an impact on how we interact with others, how we process defeat, feel, and how we play. Motivation will not only help an athlete get the starting position or gain an award but more importantly, help an athlete reach their potential. Motivation like most things
Coaches who put their team and players first, are coaches who value each and every one as a person (Yanity, 2011). A good coach will teach life skills along with developing each player’s athletic talent (Yanity, 2011). With athletic participation at an all-time high, coaches have become an important element in the education of student-athletes (Yanity, 2011). It is important for coaches to have moral and ethical behavior in all phases of their lives as young men and women look to these role models for guidance.
For the last year, my sports department in my high school decided to make me the Coach of sport’s team. As an athlete’s leader it was a good opportunity for me to show my leadership skills, talent, intelligence, enthusiasm, self-efficacy and conscientiousness. Being a coach of my team, I had recognized my responsibilities to motivate the team members. Give them full support and direction to attain the team’s goal. I also tried to help my team members to energize their capabilities and
The author has initially likened the term coaching to a sports team. In this context, the coach attempts to inspire the team to win games. Sport coaches help players realize their potential and motivate them to perform through discipline and teaching them relevant skills, techniques, and tactics. This is usually achieved through mutual communication and the fostering of meaningful relationships with the team members.