Do you (or athletes you coach) excel in practice, but freeze up in competition? Do you have a hard time just being free or flow in competition?
Freezing up (or what I call lack of trust) in competition is a common challenge for many athletes. If you tighten up and control your performance in competition, you lack trust in your skills.
Or you could lose confidence in your abilities when you enter competition and this can cause you to freeze up and lose trust.
What is the difference between confidence and trust? We use them interchangeably in the English language.
In sports psychology, they are very different concepts and the two most vital Camiseta FC Tokyo mental game skills…
Confidence is how strongly you believe you can perform well, which usually precedes your execution of a shot, pass, or routine. You must have confidence to trust in your skills…
Trust in your skills is relying on your practice or motor memory (not muscle memory) to execute a motor skill; you are on autopilot when performing.
Why is it important to trust your physical skills and abilities?
If you believe in your ability to execute a skill successfully, you’ll have greater trust. Both confidence and trust are needed for peak performance in sports.
It’s paramount that you are able to perform spontaneously and intuitively by relying on your training or practice.
Athletes who lack trust in their skills:
Focus too much on proper or perfect form during a game
Try to perform perfectly when competing
Over-coach themselves after they make a mistake
Over-control their game because of the fear of making mistakes
Worry too much about how others perceive them
Athletes with a high level of trust:
Do a good job of leaving practice on the practice field, and learn to trust in what they practice.
Become a “gamer” in competition and “let it happen.” They can react intuitively and keep it simple: See the ball and hit it.
Perform in the here-and-now. They think about getting the job done without worrying about or analyzing how to get the job done.
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