Mental Skills Training
How Young Athletes Benefit from Mental Skills Coaching
“ if you can’t see it, you can’t be it ”
Mental training is the segment of sports psychology that concentrates specifically on helping athletes break through the mental barriers that are keeping them from performing up to their peak potential.
If you have any questions you can arrange a telephone consultation. We charge for any advice and the fee is €90 for 45 minutes. Please arrange through what’s app at 0876189053.
Mental skills training is most commonly pursued by athletes looking to improve their abilities to consistently perform at high levels. This can relate to a 14 year old trying to get into the school team or a full time professional athlete.
Physical skill is a given. So many young athletes in Ireland are developing and specialising at an early age physically. The school system in Ireland is developing physically, competent athletes in 1st/2nd year through physical conditioning. While nearly every athlete has dedicated hours to physical improvement, the majority underwork (or ignore) the mental aspect of performance.
We are seeing more athletes struggle with the mental aspects and we try and teach young athletes through our programme how to develop their mental skills.
To develop mental skills , young athletes need to learn how to
- Build confidence that transfers easily from practice to competition.
- How to develop confidence ? What are the skills ?
- Internal self-talk
- Visualisation
- Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation
- Goal setting
- Planning & Thinking ahead
- Having a Growth Mindset
- What are my Values?
- Define and manage the high expectations and beliefs that lead to frustration and discouragement
- Supercharge focus and confidence before competition
- Let go and quickly move on from mistakes, losses and setbacks
- Manage distractions and negative self-talk to perform with laser-like focus.
- How to overcome difficult scenarios
- Non selection
- Poor performance
- Lack of motivation
- Lack of confidence
- Over thinking
- Anxiety issues
“ if you compete against yourself, you’ll get better,
but if you compete against others, you’ll get bitter ”
9 ways mental skills training helps young sports players are –
- Increasing players’ enjoyment of the game
- Boosting participation
- Progressing sporting performance
- Teaching confidence and how to boost it
- Removing fear and anxiety on the field
- Helping players find the right intensity (being “activated”)
- Teaching emotional control
- Improving concentration
- Developing good character
“Sports psychology helps in what I call the three Ps: participation, progression and performance. Some really basic mental skills help young players develop in all these important areas.” — Dan Abrahams
All the sessions we undertake would take place at an hotel foyer/reception in south county Dublin near Stillorgan or on a zoom call.
Sessions take 45-60 minutes and all participants need to be aware that this a LEARNING PROCESS, meaning that your child will need to learn and try new skills. Therefore they have to be open to talking openly about how they feel before, during and after practice / matches.
With any new skill there are progressions and it does take time to learn any skill and to change behaviours.
Aled Hughes
Aled has a degree in Human Movement Studies and has over 25 years of working with children and adults. He was the Director of Sports at David Lloyd Riverview for 5 years before venturing out on his own and developed Codex Kids, Speed 4 Sports and Codex360.
He is presently working privately on mental skills development with a large number of young players in a variety of sports
- Leinster U19 Rugby Player – Blackrock College
- Leinster U18 Rugby Player – St Marys College
- Blackrock College SCT & JCT rugby players
- St Michaels SCT & JCT rugby players
- Irish National Tennis Player
- Gonzaga SCT rugby player
If you have any queries or questions in regards to the above please contact us at info@aledhughes.ie or at 0876189053 / 00353876189053
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