How Can Performance Coaching Make You A Better Athlete?

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Athletes who have had performance training realize the damage that can be done to their game when they allow negative thoughts, or what is known as "defeatist thinking, takes hold. A losing team more or less gives up or possesses a losing attitude that affects performance. A marathon runner, for example, is plagued by feelings of his inadequacies and becomes convinced he cant succeed for the duration. The power of thought is generally overlooked and not given acknowledgment for all kinds of poor performance troubles, missed plays, and even entire losing streaks and seasons.

Quite a lot of very famed pleasant results provided by people who deal with performance coaching are wasteful techniques which may appear like beneficial in the beginning but in due course of time, they turn out to be inefficient by actually fuelling up the negativity that the athletes are seeking to cope with and failure. Slogans such as think positive or "believe in yourself are amazing catchphrases, but they have very little to do with athletic efficiency, and as answers to errant thinking, they simply do not work. Actually, an athlete who always engages a negative thought with the empty phrase, I think I can, I think I can, like the infamous little engine that could, is simply affirming the negativity by engaging with it and allowing it a place on the stage.

In other words, in performance sports training, using catchphrases, or attempts to redirect negative feelings, gives lifeblood to negative thinking and takes ones attention away from the act of the performance. This sort of mental coaching tends to enable the pessimistic thoughts, making them something that need to be tackled instead of a voice on the sideline that can be acknowledged then understood.

Negative feelings may, in fact, serve another purpose - they help you see, with clarity, where you have to improve. So if you attempt to wrestle them down with positive affirmations or visualizations, you make them genuine, and give them the power to truly affect you.

In short, the best way to deal with negative thinking and improve your teams efficiency is to get to know that negative thoughts and feelings are usual, necessary, and possess an usually disregarded positive. They are an inborn sign that our thinking (not our life) is away from course, and if we dont look in a new direction we will be sure to steer into problem. Hence, stimulating negative thoughts by turning them into something that must be averted is the last thing an athlete, or any performer, ever wants to do.

About the Author:
Garret Kramer is the founder and managing partner of Inner Sports, LLC. His revolutionary approach to performance has transformed the way players, coaches, professional teams, and even parents view the athletic and life journey. To know more about Garret and sports psychology visit http://garretkramer.com/ NOW.



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