When it comes to teaching athletes mental skills, self-awareness must be among the first priorities for coaches. Moreover, to teach self-awareness you must have a baseline. Athletes must know where they are to know where they need to go. Therefore, coaches must start the teaching process with a self-awareness test. Before I talk about the […]
When an athlete is struggling at mid-season, without doubt an intervention is necessary. What’s more, it’s up to coaches to identify the type of intervention the athlete needs. The first step a coach must do before they can decide on the type of intervention is to identify if the athlete is struggling due to mental […]
If a coach does not spend a lot of time working with athletes on their mental skills, it’s difficult for that coach to assess that part of their game. When coaches only focus on the physical side of sports, every problem is a technical or tactical problem. As the saying goes, if the only tool […]