MENTAL SKILLS FOR COACHES

In sport today the coach is often seen as the tactical and technical expert but is also expected to provide many mental skills often with limited support. Do you know how to increase confidence, set performance goals, facilitate appropriate focus and achieve optimal motivation for training and competition, right at the moment your athletes need it? If not, you may benefit from mental skills training.

Mental skills training can help devise strategies that ‘fit’ with your coaching style and can be implemented with your athletes seamlessly. Such skills are trainable, controllable, and can increase the likelihood that athletic performance will improve. Also, mental skills can help you - the coach - manage stress, control anxiety, and maintain composure.

The ASDC – Capital Region can offer you strategies that will help you reach your performance goals, both as a coach and for your athletes. The program will offer a wide range of mental skills that can be geared towards your specific sport and performance goals.
 

Please contact us for more information pertaining to mental skills.
 

Resources for Coaches

Influence of Supervision Ratio A resource demonstrating the importance of low Athlete to Coach ratios, when trying to accomplish enhanced muscle adaptations in the weightroom. Click to open link

Richard Way LTAD/CS4L Expert Presentation PDF format of the presentation Richard Way gave in Edmonton, AB, January 2010. Click to open link

Paradigm Shifts in Sport & Coaching - Istvan Balyi Lecture slides from our recent Winning Edge Seminar presented by Istvan Balyi - LTAD Expert Panelist Click to open link

Understanding Parental Stressors & Players Preference of Parental Behaviors A brief review Click to open link

What is Periodization? This article is designed to give a brief introductory overview of Linear and Non-Linear Periodization. Click to open link