Concentration Tips For Young Athletes
Parents, do your kids focus on the score, their statistics, or other outcomes in sports?
If so, you can help them avoid the problems associated with these types of focus.
When kids focus too much on the outcome, they can’t concentrate on the process. In addition, if they focus too much on the outcome, they’ll get easily frustrated when things aren’t going the way they want them to.
Instead, kids need to concentrate on the process.
That’s easy to say; but what does it really mean? Good question.
Kids need to define their role in sports and identify the small tasks they need to execute in their role. We call these performance cues.
They need to be immersed in these performance cues.
Performance cues might include quality touches on the ball, good passes to team mates, or creating scoring opportunities on the pitch.
You probably are aware of all the things that go through athletes’ heads instead of their performance cues.
Help them avoid focusing on the score, the win or their stats…
Instead, help them identify and concentrate on their performance cues.
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- How Athletes Can Stay in the Moment and Improve Focus
- 4 Steps to Helping Young Athletes Improve Focus
- Help Kids Improve Their Focus Before Competition
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