Motiv8 & Enda Mc NultyPerformance Excellence in Business and Sport

“Mental Training for Peak Performance”

Motiv8 & Enda Mc Nulty

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Mental Training:

Objectives:

To ultimately give you practical information that you can apply to your team or athletes

To discuss what sport psychology is and why/ when should we use it

To make session enjoyable To discuss the FUNdamentals of Sports

Psychology To explore what is required for peak

performance To learn from each others experience

Ground Rules for your coaching session:

Cross-fertilisation of ideas..seating Practical…applied information

Lesson PlanTopic Time

MinsKey Messages Exercises

My Intro

Your Intro

8 mins

Your name, club and sport

Stand up and introduce your self..flip chart

Change seats

Objectives, ground rules

And overview

6 mins Key objectives

Coaches choose ground rules

4

Ground rules picked

Intro to mental training

8 mins What is it, why should we use it? Who should use it?

When should we use it

Mind map

Peak performance requires competent prep in 5 areas

8 mins Technical, tactical, physical, psychological, lifestyle, attitudinal

Reflect on how well you prepare your team for each of the above. Out of 100

Lesson PlanTopic Time

MinsKey Messages Exercises

FUNdamentals of mental Training

10 In insight into all the areas of mental training

Highlight the most imp. ones

Goal setting 12 Compass, everything should start with, smarter, process, pyramid, winning not enough, ownership

Reflect on your team goals/ athlethes goals

Enjoyment 14 Woodward, ELP, branson, Motiv8 business and sports clients, WHY WE STARTED TO PLAY

Claps, slaps, core exercises

Break 10 Sit with someone from different sport and discuss visualisation for sport, why, what, how

Drink and talk

Confidence 10 Confidence definition

Confidence peaks, police thoughts, best bits, affirmations, find positives

summarise

Lesson PlanTopic Time

MinsKey Messages Exercises

Concentration 10 Switch on and off. Why?

Narrow beam of focus.

Triggers feel

Tennis ball exercise, seams

And write number on ball

Relaxation 10 Why ? How? Coaches facilitate

RITUAL, Music, breathing

Jacobsens technique on legs

Positive Imagery 14 Why? How? Rules, flight simulator

Isinbeyeva, D.G, I mac. E.O.K

Lemon

Bob Bowman 8 Watch video, sumarise and discuss

Discussion Summary and kaizen

10 Q and A

Group mind map

Kaizen, positives, afd’s most educational

Total time

142

The perfect player would display a high level in each of the following capacities:

Technical Tactical Physical attribute

Great Genetic Make Up

Mental attributes:

Intelligent

FUNdamentals movement skills Mastered

Understanding of tactics

stamina Commitment

Competitive greatness

Ability to perform skills at speed

Ability to control a game

Speed Confidence

Control

Bilateral symmetry Spatial awareness Stability/ balance Motivation

Ability to visualise and effectively

All basic skills perfected

Team strategy Extremely skilful Hard Working

Ability to perform skills under pressure

Positional awareness

Strength/ Power Communication

Self talk control

Maximum precision minimum effort

Performing tactics under Pressure

Suppleness/ Flexibility belief

Creative Agility concentration

Lifestyle and Personal

24 hour athletes

Nutrition

Hydration

Sleeping Habits

Social Life

Good Balance in all aspects of life

Education

Technical

Lifestyle

Physical

Psychological

Tactical

How well is your team prepared?

The FUNdamentals of Mental training Confidence Composure Communication Commitment Competitive greatness Control Concentration 7 c’s

Goal Setting Relaxation Positive Imagery Resilience Self belief Intensity Attitude Controlling anxiety Motivation Controlling self talk Enjoyment planning

Goal Setting:

“always start with the end in mind” Have a goal for season, month, week, match, day,

session S.M.A.R.T.E.R Focus on the “process of success” Process, Performance and Process goals The team goals The athlete's goals To put all emphasis on one goal which is to win…not

effective, raises arousal level to much

Becoming a team again!

Game-plan

Developed

Win 3 of 4 Championship games in next 6 weeks

15% imp. In skills

Performing to potential

Win Offally Match Score 1:15 0.8

against 80 t.os

Speed, agility

& power

6 weeks Enjoyment/ fun

Sharpen axes

Be Confident!

Hurling Team Goals

Enjoyment and fun, the forgotten components of sport

Break

Developing Confidence:

Simply the ability to think about what you want to happen Lack of confidence is the opposite: Hugh Campbell and the dvd horriblus Best bits DVD Confidence peaks Affirmations Performance profile Find positives in defeat Control thoughts…positive print out Achieve incremental goals Shout praise and whisper criticism

Concentrate:

“Concentration’s like a shower. You don’t turn it on until you bathe … You don’t walk out of the shower and leave it running. You turn it off, you turn it on … It has to be fresh and ready when you need it”

(Garry Sobers, 2002) Back of cup in golf Hookers and lolipop Concentrate on the feeling of the action Johnny Wilkinson Concentrate when you have to Use triggers Concentrate on process Not required to concentrate 24-7 Childs concentration on a new toy

Relaxation

The ability to relax the week of a game The coaches ability to relax Relax the day of the performance “Relax and play ball” Breathing is critical…deep abdominal breathing Backroom team and coaches..have finger on pulse Music Keep everyone relaxed Jacobsen’s progressive muscular relaxation If you are talking to the athlete too much, it means

something is wrong “the computer is programmed”

Positive Imagery:

While relaxed and in quiet place.(Jacobsen’s technique)

Real time Auditory, visual, sensory

kinaesthetic, Positive images and actions Flick back flick up VIVID With emotion Match simulator Why it works Hold a ball/ stick in your

hand Internal perspective

“it is not an athletes talent that will lead to success, it is what they do with their talent. The athletes attitude will determine this”

Attitude is everything in sport!

Peak Performance: The modern tour is not won in any one domain.

It is a kaleidoscope of small things made perfect. In terms of the Tour De France , Armstrong is

the GOD OF THE SMALL THINGS” To be successful in sport you need to become a

a God of small things

Michael Jordan. The psychology of defeat and mistakes

“I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed”.

Needs to change in Irish sport

Irish Education Irish Coaching

“Relaxing, concentrating on the process of success, what percentage is physical and mental”

Reading List

Golf is not a game of Perfect. Dr Bob Rotella The Inner Game of Tennis. Timothey Galwey Pure Sport John Kremer and Dr Aidan Moran In Pursuit of Excellence. Terry Orlick

Summary and Kaizen

Summary Group mind map

Kaizen

Muhammad Ali

“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses….. behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”

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