{"id":99256,"date":"2023-06-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=99256"},"modified":"2023-06-27T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T13:00:00","slug":"some-things-to-think-about-from-a-sport-psychologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/27\/some-things-to-think-about-from-a-sport-psychologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Some things to think about from a sport psychologist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Those who get my weekly newsletter<\/a> know that I sometimes refer to posts by sports psychologist Dan Abrahams. He often provides useful short nuggets. It’s one of his slightly longer entries, though, that I want to address in this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan provided a list of 10 tips and tricks and philosophies and techniques for players and coaches to consider (and experiment with)<\/a>. I’m not going to list or address them all here, but there are a few I want to speak to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Intelligent practice is (probably) more impactful than lots of practice – train with some specific game objectives in mind, and build the capacity to self-reflect whilst training<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have written before about the need for work in practice to be focused. It’s not enough to just get a whole bunch of reps. See Training must be mindful, not mindless<\/a> and Do not allow players to go on autopilot<\/a>, among others, for more on this topic. Mark Lebedew also has a useful post<\/a> on the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Performance outcomes are different to performance processes – place your focus on the processes more so than the outcomes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is particularly important in the training context. Actually, you can argue that for many types of players (juniors, JV, etc.) everything is a training context, as winning is ultimately much less important than development. See Using process scoring in games<\/a> for thoughts on how we can get more process focus in our practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Coaches would do well to help players learn how to collaborate by teaching them to ask each other questions and to be curious about each other\u2019s experiences<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am very much in the camp of not wanting robot players<\/a> who just do as I say. Player and team autonomy is very important, and something I work on<\/a>. Yes, of course, I want good decision-making<\/a>. That’s something you train by working with the players on how they think, though. And how they think collectively is part of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I encourage you to give Dan’s full post a read. It covers things from several different angles. You may pick out other things that really resonate in your coaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sports psychology Dan Abrahams has a list of philosophies and techniques worth looking over to consider in your coaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[252,322,435],"class_list":["post-99256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-player-psychology","tag-team-psychology","tag-volleyball-practice-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}