What are the advantages?
Mental Performance Coaching helps athletes understand how their mind influences performance and how to apply mental strategies to help perform their best in competition. It also helps athletes improve practice efficiency and focus.
You’ll learn how to mentally prepare for competition and take your practice game to competition successfully. The goal is to improve performance by learning how to have proactive confidence and trust in your skills.
Learning these skills will also help athletes feel confident in other areas of their life. Athletes will be encouraged to transfer skills learned in Mental Performance Coaching sessions to the classroom, relationships, and other areas of their life where the skills are applicable. Building a well rounded athlete outside of the practice and competition field is a large focus of the program.
How can I benefit from Mental Performance Coaching?
You can benefit from mental coaching when you know you perform better in practice compared to competition.
In addition, mental coaching can help if you:
- Perform inconsistently in competition.
- Lose self-confidence.
- Become distracted easily.
- Get upset easily after mistakes.
- Feel tight or anxious in competition.
- Can’t have fun or enjoy sports.
- Can’t take your skills to competition.
- Perform “safe” or tentatively.
- Have a fear of making mistakes.
- Worry too much about what others think.
Mental Performance Coaching can also help teams and coaches by enhancing confidence, improving focus, increasing practice efficiency and building team unity.
It also can help your team avoid slumps. Your team can also learn how to communicate better with each other and a coach. You’ll learn how athletes can work together and support each other.
FAQS
Mental coaching can help if you:
- Perform inconsistently in competition.
- Lose self-confidence.
- Become distracted easily.
- Get upset easily after mistakes.
- Feel tight or anxious in competition.
- Can’t have fun or enjoy sports.
- Can’t take your skills to competition.
- Perform “safe” or tentatively.
- Have a fear of making mistakes.
- Worry too much about what others think.
Mental Performance Coaching can also help teams and coaches by enhancing confidence and self esteem, improving focus, helping athletes move on from mistakes, addressing social approval, and so much more!
Each athlete will receive a different experience when working with our Mental Performance Coach because not all athletes experience the same performance barriers. Results vary from athlete to athlete and depend on the athlete’s desire to improve their mental game skills, ability to apply the strategies to practice or games, and the willingness to overcome the mental barriers that get in the way of their performance success.
Every athlete will have a different timeline when it comes to seeing results. Just like it takes a few months to see results in the gym, it also takes a few months to see/feel the results from mental performance coaching. Again, it depends on the desire to improve, ability to apply skills, and willingness to overcome mental barriers. These skills are not going to change overnight and the process can be challenging. This may be a new area of focus for some athletes, but one area that can push them ahead of many other athletes.
Yes! Virtual options are available via Zoom, Google Meet, or Facetime. The information and documents can be sent over email so the sessions can be completed remotely. Our primary location is in Brunswick, Ohio.
Learning these skills will also help youth athletes feel confident in other areas of their life. Youth athletes will be encouraged to transfer skills learned in Mental Performance Coaching sessions to the classroom, relationships, and other areas of their life where the skills are applicable. Building a well rounded youth athlete outside of the practice and competition field is a large focus of the program.
Due to the nature of our program and sessions, we accept athletes aged 13 and older into our program.
Introductory Call with a Mental Performance Coaching team member
A 20–30-minute phone call where youth athletes and their parent will have the opportunity explain their situation and background, learn what Mental Performance Training is, how Mental Performance Training can be beneficial, and take part in some discussions and activities to enhance learning.
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In addition to strength training and conditioning workshops, Sharpen Skills Training delivers mental performance training at our facility at 978 Pearl Road in Brunswick, Ohio. We also help athletes who suffer from the yips to work through them, and to overcome their performance anxiety so they can get back into the game. With our sports psychology support, athletes can expect to have increased confidence and better attitudes. Mental performance training will bolster their mental imagery and boost their motivation. We have found that strengthening an athlete’s mental ability is every bit as important as strengthening their physical ability. Sharpen Skills offers a Free Introduction Call where parents and their young athletes can speak with a coaching member to explain their concerns and discuss possible activities to solve any problems they may be experiencing. After their FREE introduction call, athletes will be able to enroll in a personalized weekly program or other resource opportunities.
Sports psychology is used to help athletes tune-out distractions and manage their focus. During mental performance training, athletes will learn how to set realistic goals and how to use motivational techniques. Your coach will also assist you in learning how best to focus on your task at hand. The mental component in a sport is every bit as significant as the physical component. It has been determined that mental toughness is one of the most important psychological characteristics to an athlete looking to achieve optimal physical performance. Sharpen Skills Training concentrates on helping athletes develop both their mental attributes as well as their physical attributes. Our fitness center is open Monday through Friday, 8 AM–7 PM; Saturdays and Sundays by Appointment Only.
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