“Mental training is the key to dealing with adversity in a positive way. It allows you to channel that is within your soul to allow you to consistently display a high level of mental toughness and accomplish your dreams”
Offensive Skills
The ability to create competitive desire: Helps motivate athletes to improve skills. Helps athletes “battle” for the win in the tight contest or when competition in Bruges.
Consistent ability to set achieve goals: Help the athlete Achieve Personal Best and constantly improve on the process of training and competing. Keeps intensity High.
Visualization skills: Allows athletes to see a path to success. Let's athletes keep their thoughts sample during competition.
Self-talk skills: An athlete skilled in self-talk is aware of the language in their heads, and actively adjust it to keep it positive and action-oriented.
Competition planning: This skill helps athletes make decisions before competition, so that during the event they can enjoy simply execute rather than decide.
Ability to commit: This kills allows athletes to go 100% during competition. In addition, the skill less athletes stay with new approaches long enough to see a benefit in training (such as changing techniques).
Comfort with risk: An athlete with this skill understands that some events rewards taking risks, and that a winning approach sometimes requires a willingness to lose ( fear of losing may prevent risk-taking).
Relaxed athletic approach: When athletes are “athletic”, they are relaxed, mainly visual, looking for opportunities rather than danger, and don't hesitate. They do not overthink their situation.
Confidence: Confidence is the overarching offensive skill that makes it easier to set high goals, seeing believe success, and execute good competition plans.
Defensive Skills
Maintaining excellence in training: Train as they compete. Practice more useful efficient. Athletes avoid the problems of overtraining and under- recovery.
Controlling competitive anxiety: Allows athletes to stay in control. Especially critical as the event gets “bigger” and competition becomes vulnerable to anxiety.
Controlling anger and frustration: Allows athletes to save energy for competition, control thoughts, and stay on task, even real real problems exist.
Energy management (raising intensity): Allows athlete to”ramp up” energy when the situation called.
Energy management (recovery between efforts): Allows an athlete to use whatever recovery time is available, so that athlete has energy at the Finish when needed.
Energy management (adjusting energy): Allows an athlete to be very aware of correct energy level needed for the situation and make quick adjustments up or down to be physically and mentally ready.
Recovery from performance setbacks: Allows an athlete to quickly”Bounce Back” from mistakes,, defeats, or bad luck and still have positive and useful thoughts.
Flexible when environment changes: Allows an athlete to quickly adapt to changes, tolerate disruptions to routine, and see all changes as opportunities.
Focus despite distractions: Allows an athlete to stay on task, keeping all five senses or useful signals, even when all five senses to get pulled away from the task.
Mental maintenance skills: Allows an athlete to be very self aware, noting changes and variations, and then make the adjustments needed to keep. Simple and effective.
