Sports Confidence Buster #9
Do you (or your athletes) have to perform well in warm ups to feel confident at the start of competition? I’m sure you build confidence from lots of practice and training. But what happens to your confidence when you don’t perform up to your expectations during the the warm up?
This is a common confidence-buster for athletes: They judge the quality of their warm up prior to competition and assume they will perform the same way in competition. Do you worry about the quality of your warm up before competition? Many athletes I work with worry too much about how their performance feels in warm up.
They think: it’s happened before so it’s likely to happen again. This is called an over-generalization. If you — or your athletes do this – confidence takes a hit because you buy into this self-fulfilling prophecy. How you react to your warm up is vital to your confidence during the opening moments of competition. If you think you don’t “have it” today, your confidence will suffer.
The Fearless Athlete
For the last two decades, I’ve been working with athletes and helping them optimize their physical ability by teaching them the secrets of top performing athletes. Now, you too can learn how to regain that child-like fearless attitude.
Mental toughness is what separates the winner from the loser in any competition. Champion athletes train hard in practice, perform without fear in competition, and trust their skills in crunch-time.
The Fearless Athlete program is ideal for any athlete that wants to overcome fear of failure and uncover inhibiting perfectionistic traits; or for any coach or parent who wants to teach athletes to perform with trust and freedom in competition.