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🧠October 10th🧠

🌍World Mental Health Day🌍

Is this also about sport and athletes?

💚Of course! Today we present to you athletes who spoke about fighting their mental health issues!

🤝It’s ok not to be ok!
⚽️The best you can do is asking for help!

Please share this post so we can reach as many athletes as possible!

#mentalhealth #mentalhealthday #depression #sportpsychology
#psychologystudent

❓Do you know that burnout affects athletes as we

❓Do you know that burnout affects athletes as well as coaches? 👩🏻‍💻🔥

📚Raedeke, Lunney & Venables (2002) define burnout as a form of sport disillusionment caused by a reduced sense of accomplishment, exhaustion and sport devaluation.

There are 5️⃣ groups of symptoms:
▪️affective (depressive mod, hostility);
▪️cognitive (helplessness, focus and memory deterioration);
▪️physical (exhaustion, injuries);
▪️behavioral (absence, decrease of performance);
▪️motivational (lack of enthusiasm).

🤩How to prevent burnout? Madigan (2019), Gustafsson et. al. (2017) agree that it is important to maintain a work-life balance. Also - friends and family play an important role as a great source of support. Psychological interventions should cover mainly CBT and ACT techniques, increasing intrinsic motivation, mindfulness, and coping with stress.
🧠Prevention is the key!🔑

#burnout #sportburnout #mindfulness #copingskills #motivation #athlete #sportcoach #sportpsych #mentalperformance #mentaltraining #sportpsychology #sportpsychologist

What are some of the most helpful techniques used

What are some of the most helpful techniques used by sport psychologists at the Olympics?

It turns out that the most important task is to stay in the present! 🙏🏻

🇺🇸Sport psychologists from the U.S. Team revealed some of the techniques that they use in their work:
💨breathing techniques
🧘🏻‍♂️mindfulness
❓analyzing “what if” scenarios
🗣cue words and instructional cues.

What techniques do you find extremely helpful in your everyday work? Let us know!👇🏼

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🦸🏻Superhero posture develops higher self-con

🦸🏻Superhero posture develops higher self-confidence! 💪🏼

Yes it’s true! ☝🏼Straightened back, raised chin, slight smile allow us to feel more confident - not only in sport! 🔥⚽️ Research confirms that (i.e. Briñol, Petty & Wagner, 2009). In tougher moments it is important to navigate your thoughts but also take care of how our body looks! 🤩

This week we have Anna and Magda working with youth football players on a training camp. They practice various skills and of course - the superhero posture!🦸‍♂️

What helps you stay confident in difficult moments? ⚡️

#athletescards #confidence #motivation #olympicgames #tokyo2020 #footballcamp #sportpsych #sportpsychology #mentaltoughness #sportpsychologist #mentaltraining #mentalcoach #mentaltrainer #coaching #soccer #volleyball #swimming #trackandfield #gymnastics #wrestling #ncaa #ncaafootball #ncaabasketball #ncaasoftball #ncaawrestling

🧠What does a sport psychologist do at the Olymp

🧠What does a sport psychologist do at the Olympics?😱

Olympic Games are an event where you only use previously practiced techniques. This is a time where you base your performance on what you did during the preparation period!

Therefore, sport psychological interventions are short-term ones⏱, aimed at finding solutions.

☝🏼It is important to define the experienced difficulty first. Next, we refer to past experiences - „what usually works in simmilar situations” or „how did you handle a simmilar situation in the past?”. The next step is to define the change-related goal - we try to navigate athlete’s thoughts into what is controllable and precise, i.e. breathing pace, muscle tension, focus. And finally we move on to choosing some well known techniques which can be helpful in current situation! 💪🏼

🏆What is your favourite mental training technique?

#athletescards #sportpsychology #sportpsych #sportpsychologist #olympicgames #tokyo2020 #athlete #coach #mentalcoach #mentaltoughness #performance #sportperformance #motivation #football #volleyball #fencing #handball #trackandfield #triathlon #swimming #gymnastics #tennis #tabletennis #taekwondo #martialarts

🏆Do you follow the @olympics ?🥇 Preparation

🏆Do you follow the @olympics ?🥇

Preparation period for the Games lasts 4 years, which makes it a unique sporting event, described by many as the culminating moment of a sporting career (McCann, 2008). 🎯

🧠Many psychologists have conducted research about the psychological requirements of competing at the Olympics (i.e. McCann, 2008; Elsborg & in., 2015).

🇺🇸McCann (2008) conducted interviews with the U.S. team. Based on them, it was possible to define 5️⃣ categories of issues faced at the Olympic Games. We can easily conclude that competing at the Olympics is not only about coping with stress or being mentally tough, but also a list of other challenges! 😱

❓Which of the stated issues do you consider most challenging?

📝Share your thoughts in the comments section!

#athletescards #sportpsychology #sportpsych #sportpsychologist #psychology #olympics #olympicgames #tokyo2020 #swimming #weightlifting #handball #wrestling #fencing #tennis #tabletennis #trackandfield #volleyball #mentaltoughness #mentaltraining #mentalcoach #sportcoach #coaching

📘Do you have your Practice Journal?

Why not?
⏰It doesn’t take much time!
🪄You don’t have to have any magical tools!

If you start your Practice Journal you can really benefit from it:
📈You can monitor your progress and watch how you improve;
🧹You’ll no longer have millions of sticky notes and pieces of paper with random comments, every information about your practice will be right there - in one place!
🛠You’ll have clear vision of which skills you already developed and which still need some work;
💪🏼Your confidence will be improved!
🔥Your intrunsic motivation will raise!

🚀Where do I start? Download Athlete’s Cards from AppStore or GooglePlay and use our Practice Journal, create monthly summaries and have access to your notes! 📩You can send your entries to your Coach/Psychologist/Colleagues by e-mail/text message/messenger! Isn’t it cool?

#athletescards #practicejournal #sportpsych #sportpsychologist #sportpsychology #mentalgame #olympics #nationalteam #ncaafootball #ncaaathlete #coach #sportparent #athlete #mentalcoach #mentaltraining #psychology #psychologist #tennis #football #wrestling #fencing #trackandfield #golfer #triathlete

🧘🏻Stay focused! 🤔How many times have you

🧘🏻Stay focused!

🤔How many times have you heard such comment from your coach?

🕹Is there a special button that we can press so that we become focused?

🙅‍♀️The answer is „NO”!

❓How can you train your concentration then?

Today we present Nideffer’s concept (1976). A well trained concentration does not equal being constantly focused for a long period of time! It is in fact an ability to switch between 4️⃣ types of concentration:
💡broad external - useful when you have to focus on the aim of your task and analyze the circumstances;
💡narrow external - aimed at focusing on just one significant stimulus;
💡broad internal - based on plan and strategy analysis;
💡narrow internal - essential for managing energy level, thoughts and emotions.

🧠How can you practice switching between these 4 types? Try our game in Athlete’s Cards app! 🤩 By clicking on consecutive numbers under time pressure, you have to evaluate current situation (how much is there left to go), focus on individual numbers, continously plan your strategy of looking for stimuli, but also manage your thoughts and even frustration sometimes („where is this number?!”)!

▶️Play on a regular basis and monitor your improvement! This really works!💪🏼

You can download Athlete’s Cards from AppStore and Google Play!

🔥Share your results in the comment below!

#athletescards #sportpsych #sportpsychology #sportpsychologist #mentaltraining #mentaltrainer #concentration #ncaafootball #ncaabasketball #ncaasoftball #ncaawrestling #soccer #lacrosse #swimming #tennis #sportcoach #mentaltoughness #sailing #tabletennis #trackandfield #youthsports #youthsport #youthathletes #youthathlete

👏How well can you do?👏 This is the easiest

👏How well can you do?👏

This is the easiest level of our concentration game! Your task is to click on consecutive numbers starting from 1, until 24. Do it as fast as you can! 💨

Let us know what your best score is! 🥇
Download Athlete’s Cards app from Google Play or AppStore and test it 3 days for free! 🔥

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Do you enjoy implementing modern technologies into

Do you enjoy implementing modern technologies into your practice? We highly recommend such solutions as they are made to make our lifes much easier 👌🏻

Have you already tried our app? You can run your own Practice Journal and have it at hand everywhere you go! Monitor your progress and set accurate goals - only with Athlete’s Cards app! Available in Google Play and AppStore 😍 First 3 days are free! ✌🏻

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How to keep children engaged in sport? 🧐⚽️

How to keep children engaged in sport? 🧐⚽️

👉🏻Research shows that majority of youth drops out from sport due to:

🙁lack of fun and boredom,
🙁negative opinion regarding own competencies,
🙁pressure from others,
🙁high stress levels,
🙁negative relationship with coach and team,
🙁lack of time for other activities (Kinoshita et al., 2021; Witt & Dangi, 2018).

❓What should we do then?

👌🏻First of all - praise children for their effort rather than results - that way we cultivate their growth mindset (Dweck, 2015). Practice should be diversified, containing lots of games and fun parts. Athletes should understand the sense behind particular parts of practice - that way they feel their effort is necessary (Mountjoy i in., 2015).
Mental preparation plays a significant role in child athlete development. Athletes should work on both their life skills and performance skills that they can execute on and off the field.

Athlete’s Cards app is there to help you! 🏆 Download it from Google Play or AppStore and enjoy all the possibilities:
⚽️ a set of 50 cards with questions that help you in improving motivation, confidence, and coping techniques;
⚽️ Practice Journal which you can update daily - you can also send your entries to anyone by e-mail or text message!
⚽️concentration game - 3 difficulty levels available, you can monitor your improvement!!

Download Athlete’s Cards now - choose subscription plan and enjoy first 3 days for free! 🤩

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Name few mental resources that are most important

Name few mental resources that are most important in your sport discipline! 💪🏼🧠

Which of them play the biggest role during competition? 🧐

Get Athlete’s Cards app from Google Play and AppStore - improve your mental game with our set of cards, practice journal and concentration game!

#athletescards #mentalresources #sportpsychology #sportpsychologist #mentaltraining #sportpsych #mentalprep #mentalpreparation #mentaltoughness #selfconfidence #football #athlete #coach #sportcoach #soccer #rugby #rythmicgymnastics #trackandfield #golf #tennis #tabletennis #acrobatics #ncaa #ncaafootball #ncaabasketball #softball #lacrosse #equestrian #triathlon #iceskating

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