Mental coaching program for young athletes

Goal: Practice sport requires to the young athlete to develop specific mental and interpersonal most of which will be useful to succeed not only in this setting but also at school and in the daily life.

Coaching and competitions are real situations where the young show their competences and their desire to do the best in the respect of the rules. Also UN and CIO have been written guidelines in this direction, recognizing the great role played by sport in the human growth of the children and adolescents.

Starting from this perspectives this program propose to develop specific mental and interpersonal skills in the young with the collaboration of their coaches.

The main skills that could be learned and developed are the following:

  1. Learn from the experiences made during the sessions and in competition
  2. Techniques to relaxation and stress management
  3. Techniques of mental warm-up
  4. Visualization of the sport performance
  5. How to focus in the shooting sports
  6. The role of mental rehearsal in the shooting sports
  7. The positive dialogue: how to encourage ourselves through the self-talk
  8. How to react to the errors
  9. How to cooperate with the coaches

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