In communicating with athletes, feedback from his players is of great importance for the coach. The coach can find out in a very simple way if the players understand his instructions during the match, if they understand his technical/tactical ideas and how they...
When it comes to motivation in sports, the motive for achievement is a very significant concept. Petz (2005) defines it as a type of social motive that is manifested in the pursuit for success and high standard achievements. The motive for achievement is...
If correctly set, goals are extraordinarily strong motivators of athlete behavior. Well set goals enable an increase in the level of an athlete’s physiological arousal and bring to an increase in energy (i.e if an athlete comes to his training in a reluctant mood,...
Accepting emotions without condemnation and self-criticism is one of the most difficult steps in experiencing intense emotions in sports such as frustration, fear of error, or precompetitive anxiety. In the previous text, I have already stated the reasons for the...
An inexhaustible topic of any mental training is certainly the emotions that the athlete experiences before, during and after the competition. Athletes can experience a whole “range of emotions within a game: create the fear of not fulfilling their own expectations,...
A progress of even 30.3% in free throws by De Andre Jordan did not remain unnoticed in the basketball world. Numerous NBA analyses have tried to decipher which factors influenced such a significant shift in the free throw percentage (from 45.5% to 75.8%). The entire...
