Resource%20Information%20-%20Mental%20Fitness

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Resource Information - Mental Fitness
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Factors that Affect Performance

• Player Factors

• Situation Factors

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Affecting Performance

• Personal
• Ability
• Skills
• Fitness
• Needs
• Physical
• Mental
• Motivation
• Expectations
• Past Experiences

• Situational
• Environment
• Weather
• Facility
• Opposition
• Peers
• Outcome
• Win / Loss
• Parents
• Coaches

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Motivation Over or Under
Player A
Optimal
Player B
Performance
Poor
Optimal
Over
Under
Motivation
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SMARTER Objectives

• When do you set objectives?
• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• Time Phased
• Exciting
• Record

• TASK
• Set an objective for a game for an under 16
  player
• How SMARTER is it?
• Take Examples from the Group

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How do psychological aspects manifest themselves
in a game?

• Levels of Aggression
• Determination
• Motivation
• Confidence
• Stress
• Anxiety
• Concentration
• Arousal
• Sweating

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Motivating Players

• Know the player
• Set achievable goals
• Work to a plan
• Provide positive feedback
• Relate effort to performance
• Relate reward to performance
• Monitor performance
• Emphasis on quality
• Generate self awareness

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Mental Skills Training - Introduction

• Mental Imagery and Rehearsal
• Think through the situation
• Pre plan actions
• This can speed up actions in the situation
• Concentration
• Lapses of concentration can give opposition the
  advantage
• Concentration techniques
• PTO

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Team Motivation

• Team Environment
• Conflict
• Cohesion
• Individuals
• Goals

• Player Attributes
• Skills,
• Motivation
• Attitude,
• Commitment

Team / squad Structure, Size and Composition

• Group Cohesion
• Team Work
• High Team Spirit
• Clear Group Goals
• Mutual Respect
• Trust

• Individual Product
• Security
• Ego
• Self Esteem
• Achievement

• Group Product
• Winning
• Friendly
• Reach Goals

Group Processes
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The 4 Cs

• Achievement is the Result of 4 Mental Qualities
• COMMITMENT
• will to win, dedication
• CONTROL OF EMOTIONS
• anxiety, anger, frustration
• CONCENTRATION
• quality of focus or attention
• CONFIDENCE
• positive attitude, self belief in abilities

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Strengthening Mental Qualities

• Commitment
• Goal Setting
• Refocusing
• Positive Thinking
• Concentration
• Imagery
• Distraction Training
• Developing routines
• Task Cards
• Breaking down performance into easy to manage
  tasks
• Simulated Competition

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Strengthening Mental Qualities

• Confidence
• Positive Self Talk
• Imagery
• Routines
• Goal Setting
• Attitude Management
• Cognitive Restructuring

• Control
• Relaxation Training
• Breathing
• Attitude Management
• Positive Self Talk
• Routines
• Simulated Competition Training
• What ifs?
• Contingency Planning
• Mental / Physical Activation Training

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Strengthening Mental Qualities

• Physiology, focus questions, buzz words,
  metaphors, values, rules, experience references,
  video imaging, identity, positive reinforcement
• Seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth
• Lifestyle, discipline, music, one to one
  conversations, positive confrontations, spot and
  fix, log books, visioning, pictures in action,
  mental rehearsal, walking model, opposite
  behaviour, other people, brainstorming, problem
  solving

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Team Building and Goal Setting

• Team Building
• Work as an Individual, lose as a team
• Goal Setting
• Performance goals are best
• You can only guarantee your performance
• Work SMARTER, not harder
• Each exercise, each session, each game

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Motivation and Emotional Control

• Motivation
• Intrinsic is best
• Comes from within
• Thrives on attention to detail and sound
  questions
• Control
• Where the mind goes the body follows
• Control your muscles, move your muscle
• I think therefore I am

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Remember Control the Controllables

• Aint no use worryin about things beyond your
  control, because if things are beyond your
  control, they aint worth worrying about
• Aint no use worryin about things within your
  control, because if things are within your
  control, there aint no need to worry

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Confidence Building

• Attitude Management
• Spot and fix by praise and challenge
• Work on strengths
• Adopt strategies for change
• Create lasting change
• Raise your standards
• Change your limiting beliefs
• Change your preparation strategy

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Concentration

• Paying attention to the right things at the right
  time
• ABC it
• The NEXT approach
• Buzz word it

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Dealing with Pressure

• Coping
• Breathing
• Though Stoppage
• I can v I cant
• Expect the Unexpected
• Use the Next Approach

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Focus For U-14 Squads

• Nurturing Positive Attitudes/Confidence Building
  (changing negatives into positives)
• Goal Setting (smarter goals)
• Self Analysis (identifying critical success
  factors)
• Re-Focusing (managing errors optimising
  down-time)

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Focus For U-15 Squads

• Nurturing Positive Attitudes/Confidence Building
  (changing negatives into positives)
• Goal Setting (smarter goals)
• Self Analysis (identifying critical success
  factors)
• Re-Focusing (managing errors optimising
  down-time)
• Relaxation (identifying controlling pre-match
  anxiety)
• Mental Rehearsal/Visualisation (see the positive
  outcome)

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Focus For U-16 Squads

• Nurturing Positive Attitudes/Confidence Building
  (changing negatives into positives)
• Goal Setting (smarter goals)
• Self Analysis (identifying critical success
  factors)
• Re-Focusing (managing errors optimising
  down-time)
• Relaxation (identifying controlling pre-match
  anxiety)
• Mental Rehearsal/Visualisation (see the positive
  outcome)
• Post-Game Analysis and Evaluation
  (self-assessment/review goals)

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Focus For U-17 Squads

• Nurturing Positive Attitudes/Confidence Building
  (changing negatives into positives)
• Goal Setting (smarter goals)
• Self Analysis (identifying critical success
  factors)
• Re-Focusing (managing errors optimising
  down-time)
• Relaxation (identifying controlling pre-match
  anxiety)
• Mental Rehearsal/Visualisation (see the positive
  outcome)
• Post-Game Analysis and Evaluation
  (self-assessment/review goals)
• Controlling the Controllables (recognising what
  can cant be changed)
• Dealing with Pressure
• Developing Team ship

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Questions and Observations

• Remember Work as an Individual Lose as a Team