{"id":8360,"date":"2011-09-11T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=8360"},"modified":"2016-08-14T14:26:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T22:26:54","slug":"sports-psychology-and-coaching-how-to-be-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/sports-psychology-and-coaching-how-to-be-a-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Psychology and Coaching: How To Be A Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first introduction to sports psychology and coaching<\/a><\/strong> was back in high school. I ran track and cross country, earning the coveted \u201cMost Improved\u201d award. It wasn\u2019t that I was such an impressive runner, but after crossing the finish line in my first race just as they were taking down the finish chute anything was an improvement. Maybe it was because I just didn\u2019t quit. We moved schools after my first year, and with it came a new coach. He was definitely ahead of his time as far of his knowledge of sports psychology and distance coaching went; even though I\u2019m sure he never made anything near a six-figure income as a high school coach. His coaching took me from a mediocre high school distance runner to a UCLA athlete.<\/p>\n

Only Losers Say That Winning Isn\u2019t Everything<\/h3>\n

If you\u2019ve never watched the Olympics you know. The quest for winning the gold takes priority over every aspect of these athletes\u2019 lives. At the moment they win their lives are forever changed; especially in the high profile events. There are some athletes who say that they just came to compete; that alone was a dream come true. Others, however, are not satisfied and are willing to sacrifice another 4 years for the chance to win. Still others justify their position after they lose with all types of reasons why it wasn\u2019t that important to them. They quit. There is a definitive difference in the sports psychology and coaching<\/strong> mentality behind these groups.<\/p>\n

The Truth Behind Sports Psychology and Coaching<\/h3>\n

If you have a plan B, you\u2019re not really committed to your plan A. In business, in sports, in relationships. Think about marriage vows, \u201cUntil death do us part.\u201d Most people in our society can\u2019t keep their focus long enough to really win. They give up early when things become uncomfortable. Winners don\u2019t quit period. Mary Lou Retton scored a perfect 10 on the vault to win in the 1984 Olympics with a bad knee, when everyone else expected her to quit. There is no secret to success in sports psychology and coaching<\/span> except to dig deep and give everything you have.<\/p>\n

By the way\u2026 you\u2019re invited to claim your FREE step-by-step \u201cMaster Coach Blueprint<\/a><\/strong>\u201d video toolkit. Just go HERE<\/a><\/strong> now to get your master coach blueprint videos<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/div>\n

Colette Seymann<\/strong><\/a>
\nJTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first introduction to sports psychology and coaching was back in high school. I ran track and cross country, earning the coveted \u201cMost Improved\u201d award. It wasn\u2019t that I was such an impressive runner, but after crossing the finish line in my first race just as they were taking down the finish chute anything was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[210,412],"tags":[995,1247],"class_list":["post-8360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-psychology-coaching","category-sports-psychology-and-coaching","tag-psychology-coaching","tag-sports-psychology-and-coaching","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18866,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8360\/revisions\/18866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}