Commitment: Leisure Athletes vs Performance Athletes #BITESIZE

Commitment Leisure Athletes vs Performance Athletes

Commitment: Leisure Athletes vs Performance Athletes # BITESIZE

Mark Bennett MBE has spent the last 30 years developing robust and scalable strategies and tools to help organisations, teams and individuals maximise the performance potential of themselves and the people they are influencing.

Mark hasn’t just developed the ‘how to’ tools and strategies to increase engagement, learning and performance; he has designed powerful interventions that support the change required to embed the behaviours and cultures that maximise performance.

He has named this holistic approach the Performance Development Systems (PDS). PDS focusses on two key elements:

  1. Making people better influencers
  2. Supporting the transition of change required to live by the principles & behaviours needed to be a great influencer

For more information on Marks services & a host of free resources check out his website PDScoach.com

Commitment, setting goals and delivering on your promises without being derailed, is an important ingredient of Mental Toughness.  In this BITESIZED episode leading Performance Coach, Mark Bennett MBE and I go on to discuss the differences in commitment levels between leisure and performance athletes.  Mark goes on to share suggestions for coaches so that they can get the best out of their athletes.

Key Learning Points:

  • Technical ability, physicality or skill doesn’t define a leisure or performance athlete, it is their attitude and daily behaviours.
  • Whether they are supervised or unsupervised, a performance athlete is somebody that will do what they need to do to be the best they can be.
  • The performance athlete will ask themselves important questions daily such as; “What’s my plan for the week ahead?” “How much sleep do I need?” “What am I going to eat tomorrow?” “What do I need to do?“
  • High performance coaches, continually look at the everyday behaviours of their athletes and don’t overly concern themselves of the athlete’s technical ability. 
  • Coaches will seek to understand the athlete as a person, their personality, preferred environment and habits, to understand where their mindset currently is and what their commitment is to their goals and objectives.

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Global Sports Psychologist who is located near Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK and willing to travel Internationally.  David also uses online video conferencing software (Zoom, Facetime, WhatsApp) on a regular basis and has clients who he has supported in USA, Canada, South America, UAE, Australian and New Zealand.  

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    How Do I Go About Controlling The Controllables To Help My Sport Performance

    How Do I Go About Controlling The Controllables To Help My Sport Performance?

    By working with David Charlton, you and your organisation will be better equipped to rise to modern day challenges and better informed to thrive on and off the pitch, course or court.  Where he inspires individuals and teams to:

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    He has a comprehensive knowledge around the development of Mental Toughness, a plastic personality trait, which determines or limits people to deal effectively with change, challenges and stressors. In today’s climate, during the Coronavirus pandemic this quality is becoming more and more valuable to individuals, teams and organisations. 

    In this short solo episode, I discuss an important component of Mental Toughness – control.  In sport, business and in everyday life it can be very easy to get distracted by external factors that are out of your control.  I go on to use Andy Murray’s gutsy recent performances at the Australian Open Tennis tournament to illustrate my points sharing an exercise to help you better understand how to go about controlling the controllables and be able to set yourself process goals.

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    • What factors could Andy Murray control in his tennis match against Roberto Bautista Agut?
    • Here are some examples; how he placed his focus, his attitude, tactics, body language, self talk, his pre-serve routines and communication with his team and spectators.
    • What factors were outside of Andy Murray’s control?
    • His opponent’s tactics, fitness and conditioning, skill level and decision making, scheduling of the match, temperature/weather conditions and umpire calls.
    • Make success all about the things inside your control and set process goals as a result.

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    David Charlton

    Best Wishes 

    David Charlton

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    Managing Director – Inspiring Sporting Excellence and Founder of The Sports Psychology Hub.  With over 10 years experience supporting athletes, coaches, parents and teams to achieve their goals, quickly. 

    T: +44 7734 697769

    E: [email protected]

    Search Our Sports Psychology Website

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