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5 Reasons Athletes Don’t Do Mental Training

January 2, 2020 By Patrick Cohn Leave a Comment

Mental Coach Survey Says

Why do some athletes and coaches not embrace mental training? What can you do as a mental coach to help them adopt mental coaching as part of their regular training?

First, here’s what my mental coach survey says about why athletes don’t embrace mental training:

1. They don’t understand how mental training can help (54%)

2. They don’t want to spend money for mental training (46%)

3. They don’t value or believe in mental training (39%)

4. They lack commitment and follow through with the skills (32%)

5. Athletes give up too quickly when they can’t apply mental training skills to competition (27%)

Today, I’d like to address the first two challenges about why athletes don’t embrace mental training…

Athletes Don’t Understand Mental Training

We find this is the number one reason that athletes do not embrace mental training. They simply don’t understand what it is and how it can help.

And when they don’t understand it, they shy away from it. Part of it is that they have the wrong impression about working with a mental game coach.

But you are in full control of this challenge for athletes! Why? You can educate athletes about the benefits of mental coaching and how it will help them.

We use newsletters, surveys, podcasts, and videos to help educate athletes and coaches on the benefits of mental coaching.

Athletes Don’t Want to Spend Money on Mental Training

Unless it’s provided by a team coach, some athletes are reluctant to spend money on mental training. The reality is that not every athlete can afford it.

Keep in mind that with young athletes – high school and younger – and even college athletes, we are hired by parents and coaches, not athletes.

One way to help with this challenge is to have many levels of mental training programs for athletes.

For example, if they can’t afford the one-on-one coaching, we suggest one of our cost-effective products they can start with.

Can athletes afford not to engage in mental training? I work with MX racers who spend $20,000 or more on each motorcycle and they might travel with 4 bikes! That’s a lot of money.

You would think that they have the budget for mental training. If they lose focus for two seconds and wreck a bike, that’s a huge cost for them.

You’ll learn more strategies to help athletes embrace mental training in the Spring 2020 MGCP course.

The final day to early register for the Spring MGCP certification is Jan 8th, 2020. Download the application and return to me before that date.

Filed Under: Sports Psychology Certification Tagged With: AASP Certification, Sports Psychology Certification

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  1. The MGCP 20-chapter workbook including exercises to teach you how to identify mental game challenges and obstacles that influence performance; develop mental skills individual and team members; and improve teamwork and communication.
  2. The Athlete's Mental Edge workbook system to help you stay organized and accelerate your athletes learning and progress with mental skills.
  3. 12+ Real-life video and audio case studies to accelerate your learning of mental game coaching.
  4. MGCP Summaries, outlines and flow charts to help you understand the over mental coaching process and the phases of mental coaching taught by Dr. Cohn.
  5. Examples of mental imagery programs (hockey, dog handling, and golf) including how to create imagery scripts and audio programs for your athletes.
  6. A series of sports psychology e-books on goal setting, confidence, focus, pregame and preshot routines.
  7. Use of Dr. Cohn’s Athlete’s Mental Aptitude Profile (AMAP) and several sport-specific versions to help you identify an athlete’s or team’s mental game strengths and weaknesses.
  8. Use of the Team Cohesion Aptitude Profile (TCAP) to assess team cohesion; and a sports parent’s profile to use with sports parents.
  9. Examples of pre-seminar questionnaires to use before you give a seminar to a group to help you identify mental game challenges and areas to teach.
  10. How to do team mental game assessments efficiently using an online assessment tool.
  11. Over 160 mental game coaching “handouts” or one-page summaries and worksheets you can use to help you stay organized during sessions and as summaries for your student or team.
  12. 18 real-life case studies focusing on a different challenge in sports psychology and Dr. Cohn’s solution to each. You understand the real-life issues with athletes and how to address their mental game barriers.

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AMAP Assessment System

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