For teammates, this feeling of connection can encourage them to put in the extra effort to benefit the team. Even when you are coaching athletes in individual sports, encouraging connections between individuals is important for motivation. Encourage athletes to get to know one another and engage in team-building activities.
Celebrate the accomplishments of the team or competing unit as a whole, and allow the young people that you work with to build strong relationships and motivate each other. Young people want to feel successful and have fun. If players finish a tough drill, or stick out an activity longer than they ever have, use these opportunities to acknowledge an athlete. It can be really hard to keep a loss from bringing young athletes down. Achieving a goal, whether short- or long-term can be a tremendous motivator.
Keep in mind that goal setting can backfire, however, if the goals are not achievable and tangible. Shoot for goals that can be accomplished , and share these goals with your young athletes.
Setting a combination of individual and team goals can be particularly effective for motivating children. Setting goals for improvement in certain aspects of a sport can be a more effective tactic than setting statistical or win-based goals for a youth sports team. Use drills where athletes have to work together to meet your goals. Reward athletes for encouraging and helping each other.
Contact the Certification Council. Visit the Career Center. Explore Resources. I find that the simplest answer to this, is reminding athletes of their why. What do they want, and why do they want to achieve it? If coaches can help athletes answer their why , and better understand their reason for showing up to practice every day, then we can discover their innate motivation.
I believe coaches are a vehicle for bringing the puzzle pieces together to show athletes their purpose, which creates motivation. You may be familiar with motivational theories from psychologists such as B. In short, Skinner delineates behavior and consequence focusing on positive reinforcement, positive punishment, negative reinforcement, and negative punishment more on that HERE better known as Extrinsic motivation.
Imagine a time when you were struggling to overcome an obstacle. It may have been physically difficult, mentally difficult, or overwhelming both mentally and physically. Why did you lack motivation? Was it fear of failure? Lack of preparation? Perhaps lack of confidence? Lack of reward? Lack of basic needs? What helped you become motivated? Was it an extrinsic reward such as money? Was there a self-fulfillment need a personal accomplishment? Or, were you motivated by a basic need like food or water?
Step 1 : Identify what the athlete wants. Step 2 : Identify why the athlete wants what they want. Step 3 : Develop an action plan to achieve their wants or goals. Step 5 : On game-day, remind athletes of their why. Each and every barrier that your athlete experiences uses up motivation. The severity of a barrier has an inverse relationship with sport motivation, so it is imperative that you create a training plan that avoids expected barriers.
Come up with solutions that prevent barriers. For example, create training plans that fit around scheduled events. Doing so will improve compliance, as it is easier to find time to get training in. Work with your athlete to find what kinds of factors help them train and make it more enjoyable. Suggest laying out training items the night before a workout, keeping a spare gym bag of equipment just in case, or carrying doubles for equipment that might require maintenance and prevent a training session.
Breaking out of the training monotony by switching up routines or providing novelty to a plan also helps athletes reignite their passion and excitement for training and racing. When the athlete seems tired and lacks motivation, sometimes rest is needed. In the end, a coach can only provide so much motivation to an athlete, and, as mentioned, motivation is inspiration plus external action. You can provide the external motivation, but the athlete has to provide personal inspiration, as well.
It is important to discuss what helps motivate your athletes to create the most successful relationship. The program you offer can be world class, but the communication and support has to be there, too.
Shift your mindset away from being just a training planner and consider yourself also as a motivator for success. She has been competing in triathlon for 18 years and coaching for 15 years. Mackenzie acquired her B. She is also a former D1 runner and elite cyclist. Mackenzie is also an instructor at the University of Oregon.
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