166 How To Help Athletes and Coaches Reflect On Their Performances

Demystifying Mental Toughness

Many athletes and coaches understand that one measure of Mental Toughness, COMMITMENT, showing maximum effort, making promises and keeping them, setting goals and not getting to side-tracked is vitally important. What this can also mean is a lot of athletes and coaches get carried away with simply being busy and trying to improve. This often results in performance plateaus.

Why is that? A trap that many people fall into is a failure to learn from mistakes and performances. This challenge is the motivation for creating this episode with leading performance coach, Mark Bennett MBE, where we discuss live decision making from an athlete and coaches’ perspective. We also chat about individual sports and team sports, the differences, working with multi-disciplinary teams, hot and cold review processes and a lot more. Enjoy tuning in!

Key Learning Points:

• Coaches are a huge influence on how athletes go on to make decisions and reflect on those decisions when they're playing their sport in the moment.
• Helpful processes in decision making link to ensuring emotions are managed, environmental factors are controlled, being able to reflect live whilst understanding how choices in the execution of skills go on to influence the outcome.
• Helpful questions to ask yourself, start with – Am I in an effective state?
• Recognising if your ego gets in the way of your performance is essential for both coaches and athletes.
• Outcomes and too much though on technique can confuse a lot of golfers and impact their performance negatively.

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