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How To Run A Soccer Practice For Youth Players

Craig Sigl2015-01-09T18:56:37+08:00

How to coach youth soccer The biggest challenge that is faced by a coach is consistently providing an engaging and fun environment for their players. In providing a quality training session soccer coaches assist players to unconsciously improving an array of skills, such as motor, technical, and social, in each training session. For starters, it is rule of thumb to depart from using “The Three L’s”, which is Laps, Lines, and Lectures. This is old school and it isn’t very effective any more. Laps do not fulfill a purpose in the drills since young players are naturally fit. [...]

How To Run A Soccer Practice For Youth PlayersCraig Sigl2015-01-09T18:56:37+08:00

Effective Communication Skills Is The Key To Success

Craig Sigl2020-09-30T02:55:42+08:00

Today we have a special guest post from Ethan J. Skolnick Lead Writer covering the Miami Heat and the NBA and Dr. Andrea Corn a licensed psychologist to talk about effective communication skills. They offer some excellent advice and insights some that is shared in the Effective Communication Skills video below. There’s going to be good reasons why children do leave organized sports at the age of 13. It is a pivotal age. You are shifting from elementary to middle school. You are at the cusp of adolescence, early adolescence and puberty. There are many changes going on, [...]

Effective Communication Skills Is The Key To SuccessCraig Sigl2020-09-30T02:55:42+08:00

Girls In Sports: Coming To Grips With Being Competitive

Craig Sigl2020-09-30T03:39:32+08:00

We, at the Mental Toughness Academy, want to support girls in sports and those girls owning their power! Today, we have a guest post from Dr. Andrea Corn, a sports psychologist and Ethan Skolnick, a sports columnist to give us some insights into the minds of female athletes they have worked with. As a child growing up outside of Pittsburgh in the 1980s and 1990s, Swin Cash wasn't that different from the boys of that time: She idolized Michael Jordan. Not only did she idolized him, she imitated him. "I remember him having these fierce, competitive eyes," she said recently. "I [...]

Girls In Sports: Coming To Grips With Being CompetitiveCraig Sigl2020-09-30T03:39:32+08:00

How To Find Your Courage In Sports

Craig Sigl2020-09-30T03:39:56+08:00

Taking risks is essential for a youth athlete's development and success at his or her chosen sport! Doing so will open up new opportunities to greatness! In every sport, there are times when you have to show up and perform under pressure or do something you don't normally do. This is the time to find your courage. It's there and you don't need any special superhero abilities to access it. Discover How Taking Risks Makes You A Better Youth Sports Athlete by watching the video below. In this video, Peter Vidmar, the highest scoring American gymnast in Olympic History, will [...]

How To Find Your Courage In SportsCraig Sigl2020-09-30T03:39:56+08:00

How To Build Self Esteem By Building Trust

Craig Sigl2020-09-30T03:40:14+08:00

Youth athletes need to build trust in themselves and their coaches to move up to the next level in their sport! Without trust, development is impossible! Just ask Olympic Gold Medalist Peter Vidmar. In this video, Peter shares how trusting his coach fully to teach him how to acquire new difficult moves and skills helped him gain self-esteem and confidence. We'd love to hear your thoughts about How To Build Self Esteem By Trusting Your Coach, please do leave a comment below! Early on I started to realize that Makoto Sakamoto, my coach, would never ask me to [...]

How To Build Self Esteem By Building TrustCraig Sigl2020-09-30T03:40:14+08:00

Advice For Parents Involved In Sports By Olympic Gold Medalist

Craig Sigl2020-09-30T03:41:09+08:00

As a parent, you always want the best youth sports experience for your child. But do you often ask yourself where you should draw the line when it comes to your involvement in your youth athlete's sports training? Olympic gold medalist Peter Vidmar, who is also a parent of 5 athletes shares with you How Involved Parents Should Be In Youth Sports Training. He has his own kids in school and I'm sure it would be tempting for someone as accomplished as Peter to want to step in and tell your kids what you think they need to do before [...]

Advice For Parents Involved In Sports By Olympic Gold MedalistCraig Sigl2020-09-30T03:41:09+08:00

How Goal Setting In Sports Training Makes You A Better Athlete

Craig Sigl2020-09-30T20:12:03+08:00

Yes, your youth sports athlete knows how to prepare for competition, but can you say that they are mentally-equipped to face the monotony of everyday training? In this video, Peter Vidmar, the highest scoring American gymnast in Olympic history, shares his experience on how goal setting has helped him be a more effective gymnast both in training and in competition. Read on to know more about How Goal Setting In Sports Training Makes You A Better Athlete. The best mental preparation is physical preparation. If I prepare physically and do everything I am supposed to do, I earn [...]

How Goal Setting In Sports Training Makes You A Better AthleteCraig Sigl2020-09-30T20:12:03+08:00

Learn Why A Never Quit Attitude Is Essential To Success In Sports

Craig Sigl2020-09-30T20:14:03+08:00

Winners never quit and quitters never win! Teaching perseverance to your youth athletes will definitely set them on the path to success not only in youth sports but also in life! In this video, Peter Vidmar shares how he got powerful motivation to persevere from a bulletin board in a cafeteria and what he saw in his father as he grew up. Have something to say? Make it known by leaving a comment below! If I look back, I noticed when I was in elementary school; they had a board in the cafeteria. It was the school record [...]

Learn Why A Never Quit Attitude Is Essential To Success In SportsCraig Sigl2020-09-30T20:14:03+08:00

Over Training Can Lead To Burn Out In Sports

Craig Sigl2020-09-30T20:14:18+08:00

Too much of a good thing can be bad! Olympic Gold Medalist Peter Vidmar talks about the number one reason for burn out in sports! In this video, Peter shares how his relentless gymnastic training schedule led to fatigue and how he came back from a slump with some simple relaxation. If you want to know whyOver Training Can Lead To Burn Out In Sports all you have to do is to read on! We'd really appreciate your comments, let us know what you think by leaving a comment below. The low point came around my sophomore year [...]

Over Training Can Lead To Burn Out In SportsCraig Sigl2020-09-30T20:14:18+08:00

Proper Sports Preparation Leads To Confidence During Competition

Craig Sigl2020-09-30T20:14:37+08:00

Proper sports preparation is crucial to success. It gives youth athletes confidence that they need to overcome challenges and realize their full potential! In the video below Peter Vidmar, writer of the amazing book "Risk, Originality and Virtuosity", wants you to Learn How Sports Preparation Leads To Confidence In Competition. Read on and discover how being prepared will help youth athletes build confidence in a competitive setting. We'd love to hear your thoughts and comments, please do leave a comment below! I think my best performances usually came after a culmination of really good physical performances beforehand, so [...]

Proper Sports Preparation Leads To Confidence During CompetitionCraig Sigl2020-09-30T20:14:37+08:00

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