Mental education of young people is one of the tasks of training.
Often, however, training is centered almost exclusively on learning and perfecting sports technique and physical fitness.
Nonetheless, instructors and coaches use terms that squeeze psychological concepts to support athletes in training and competition (focus, stay calm, you need to be more determined, put your mind to it, don’t give up, wake up! Don’t sleep).
Thus an obvious difference emerges: the technical aspects of sport and physical fitness are trained and developed over time and with continued effort. The psychological aspects are considered innate skills that will be put into action through simple words of reminder from the coach about the aspects that are deficient at any given time.
Obviously this approach is wrong, but many do not know this.
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