If you are reading this, you want to improve fast.
Make your practice sessions work for you by doing what elite athletes and musical prodigies do. Continue reading “How to Deal With Mistakes in Sports”
Use Mental Game Strategies For Training
In a perfect world skaters would be able to train year round with no interruption, improving every week. No injuries, no equipment problems, no losing ice to hockey teams.
Unfortunately, occasional interruptions in training happen, but skaters can use effective Mental Game Strategies to keep on improving despite the lack of actual physical practice on the ice.
Turn it Around When Skating Is Tough
I had a conversation with a skater today. Since the end of last season, things had been going well. We have her goals and plan for the year in place, and she has already started landing new triples, and is well on her way to mastering new spins among other things.
But for the last three days, she has been struggling. Jumps feel off, spins are off a little bit, she is finding it difficult to focus and refocus back to the job at hand. Self doubts swirl around in her head no matter how much she uses her doubt rebuttals and other mental game strategies.
How To Keep Your Training Energy High
In the sport of skating, this is the time of year that athletes are a little run down from the long season of pre-competitions. School has started and spending the day at the rink is no longer an option for most.
Even though the first thought for most athletes is to hit the training harder before the end of the season, remember that taking time to enjoy yourself might be the best thing you can do at this time in your training. Continue reading “How To Keep Your Training Energy High”
Mental Mindset: Your (Best) Choice
Are you ever frustrated because you aren’t “the best” at something? When I was a girl, I wanted to be the best in everything I did. I remember crying and feeling frustrated because it seemed like no matter what I did, I was never the “best.”
It turns out there was nothing wrong with me. The flaw was in my mindset, the way I was thinking. Continue reading “Mental Mindset: Your (Best) Choice”
How to Train A Mindset of Confidence and Trust
The words Confident and Champion are usually used together.
Have you ever seen a test session? A kid goes out there, and it looks like they don’t have a care in the world. They skate with confidence, and even though they made a few mistakes—they pass.
At that same test session, you did what was required of you, you were very careful, mindful of each movement because you were worried that you would make mistake and fail. In fact you only made only one minor mistake–but you didn’t pass. Continue reading “How to Train A Mindset of Confidence and Trust”