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20 May 2013

Tips for Building Team Confidence

Tags: confidence, sports psychology, team leader
Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Articles for Coaches, Sports Psychology | 6 Comments

As the coach you are not alone in supporting your team’s confidence. It is beneficial for coaches to identify members of the team that can help boost team confidence and promote success. Once you identify players with leadership capabilities have the team select or have your team elect a captain and co-captain. Team captains act as a liaison between players and coaches, so they will help you support team confidence. Other players look up to team leaders for guidance, reassurance, and encouragement as they do the coach. In sports team leaders are a valuable team asset you should use […]

04 Mar 2013

Dorfman’s Mental ABC’s of Pitching

Tags: Baseball, confidence, focus, sports
Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Sports Psychology | 4 Comments

Harvey Dorfman was a sports psychologist who counseled many of baseball’s most successful hitters and pitchers. Dorfman worked with major league baseball’s top athletes, and published prominent books on the mental aspects of baseball. Among his list of star clients are sluggers Alex Rodriguez, Mark McGwire, Jose Canseco, and Cy Young Award-winning pitchers Greg Maddux, Bob Welch, and Roy Halladay. In 2000, Halladay set the record for highest ERA ever, among MLB pitchers (10.53) with a minimum 50 innings pitched. His performance continued to slump so he was sent not just to the minors, but all the way down […]

27 Nov 2012

Enhancing Self Confidence

Tags: confidence, self-confidence
Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Articles for Athletes, Articles for Coaches, Youth Sports Articles | 17 Comments

Confidence is a player’s belief in their ability to perform well in any situation, practice or game. Confidence is derived from a baseline assessment of past performances, training, and preparation. As competency or skill mastery grows, your confidence becomes proportionately stronger. In order for players to develop high levels of confidence, they must have a clear understanding of the factors that boost and undermine their confidence, such as high expectations. Confidence is a core mental game skill because of its importance and relationship to other mental skills. Harvey Dorfman (2005) describes confidence as a mindset based on tangible sources […]

25 Oct 2012

Developing High Levels of Confidence

Tags: confidence, sports
Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Articles for Athletes, Articles for Coaches, Articles for Parents, Sports Psychology | 1 Comment

Confidence is the keystone to performing at your best. When athletes are confident, their mind and body are relaxed allowing them to perform at their best. There are a few things that can be done to ensure you have the highest level of confidence possible. First of all, engineer your approach to competition so that you are doing things that you have already successfully done in the past. Just knowing that you done it successfully before, will give you confidence. Be sure you stick to your game plan. It is a common mistake of teams to see their competition […]

04 Sep 2012

How Bully Coaching Affects Athletes

Tags: Bad Coaching, bully coaches, confidence, fear of failure, sports
Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Articles for Parents, Sports Psychology, Youth Sports Articles | 287 Comments

Below is a quote from one of our athletes who is a 16 year-old high school quarterback who loved football and had the potential to start as a freshman — until the coach destroyed his mental game… “Going into high school I was a standout athlete with high confidence but after my freshman year I started to lose interest. It just wasn’t fun anymore. I hated practice because I was always worrying about messing up and being embarrassed by the coach. In games I worried about what he would do or say if I made a mistake so I […]

05 Jan 2011

High Confidence Leads to Success

Tags: Boxing, confidence, sports
Written by Mike Edger, Posted in Articles for Athletes, Articles for Coaches, Articles for Parents, Sports Psychology, Youth Sports Articles | 6 Comments

Confidence is key to success in sports and the number one asset that separates great athletes from the rest of the pack. Athletes cannot reach their true athletic potential without massive amounts of confidence in their talent and abilities. In sports confidence is defined as one’s belief in their ability to execute a task or win an event. It’s a mindset that says, “I can do this,” but it is based on tangible things such as your past success in sports. Most athletes will tell you that confidence comes from past success, playing well or positive experiences in their […]

Posts Tagged ‘confidence’

Tips for Building Team Confidence

Dorfman’s Mental ABC’s of Pitching

Enhancing Self Confidence

Developing High Levels of Confidence

How Bully Coaching Affects Athletes

High Confidence Leads to Success

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