Athletic Team Coaching
Athletics is adversity
Athletic competition itself is a form of adversity. Regardless of their final record, no team finishes a season having not faced challenges. Good coaches design practices to prepare their athletes for the onslaught of physical and mental challenges that their teams will need to overcome. Mental Mettle Team Coaching will help athletes and teams increase their mental toughness and a positive mindset. Just as wind sprints and weight training will prepare a team for performing well while physically fatigued, this team coaching will prepare a team when they become mentally fatigued.
Matt helped foster a gritty mindset within these girls and encouraged them to take responsibility for their words and actions. He helped this record-breaking team elevate their status from great to special…Hard work is our flex!
-Coach Joni Nightingale. Head Coach Dee-Mack Girls Basketball
Team Coaching Topics
“Live your 100”: In this introductory session, I share my story to inspire young athletes to learn to control what they can and strive to improve each day. This session will introduce them to coaching but they will have much less participation than in other sessions.
Turning dreams into habits: Players will learn to use their current dreams as motivation for developing daily habits that will result in confidence and eventually success.
Mindset: Players will learn to identify their current mindset, fixed or growth, and learn to make positive adjustments for improvement.
Experiential Learning: In this session players will focus on the values behind past positive experiences. After recalling a past experience they will share positive memories in order to find commonalities throughout the team.
The 2 wolves: Players will analyze and discuss the positive and negative voices we all hear. Upon recognizing the driving forces behind those voices players will discuss and learn how to control which voices they focus on.
Developing an attitude for gratitude: Players will learn the advantages of developing a lifestyle of gratitude.
Team Toxins: In this session, players will learn to understand and combat the attitudes and personality traits that will arise, and possibly harm a team, during competition.
Handle your business - Players will discuss all that has been learned and be challenged to take ownership of their own abilities and responsibilities.