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BTEC L2 Diploma in Sport

Unit 9: Psychology in Sport

6 week Psychological Skills Training Programme

Name: Kulsum Dalal

Sport: Rounders

Strengths and Areas for improvement
Strengths

Motivation
Thoughtful
Active
Leadership
Confidence
Calm
Areas for improvement

Outgoing
Problem solving
Even tempered
Control of anxiety
Reliable
Commitment
Calm
Concentration
Control of aggression
Responsive

My SMART Targets
Overall aim of the training programme:
4
The overall aim of my training program of 6 weeks is to improve my psychological ability in Rounder’s. I have assessed my current psychological skills and identified my areas to work on. The 4 areas I will be working on are concentration, calmness, control of anxiety and temper/aggression. To do this I will need the help of my peers, my team mates and my coaches.

Target
Method to be used to achieve target
1
Within my six week training programme I aim to improve my concentration, specifically when fielding.
Exposure in training
Focusing
Thought stopping
2
During my 6 week training programme I want to improve my ability to control my anxiety, specifically when I make mistakes.
Exposure in training
Breathing techniques
Self-talk
Mental rehearsal
3
Over my 6 week training I aim to improve the control of my aggression, especially when losing or when I make mistakes.
Exposure in training
Thought stopping
Focus on next action

Week 1
Session 1:

Area for improvement
Method to be used
Plan
Concentration

Exposure in training

Focusing

Thought stopping

I will explain to my coach what makes me lose my concentration when fielding (spectators and watching other games), I will make sure that this happens in training so that I can practice concentrating on my game and not what is going on around me.

I plan to focus on my game and try not to be distracted with things. The things that might I lose my focus on by looking at other game or messing round with other people who not batting. To make me focusing on my game I have think about every step I take. I will focus on the batter and what they are doing as they could hit the ball tome at any time, so I need to be alert. To imagine my coach shout ‘STOP’ in my head to bring my attention back to the game when I do lose concentration and I realise.

Session 2:

Area for improvement
Method to be used
Plan
Anxiety
Exposure in training

Breathing techniques

Self-talk

Mental rehearsal
I will explain to my coach what makes feel me lose my anxiety when fielding (spectators and watching other games), I will make sure that this happens in training so that I can practice anxiety on my game and not what is going on around me.

I will talk to my self and motive myself by talking my throw the game if I messy up in my game I will say to myself throw* it like I did well last time so I will do the same as I did well in my last game .
Session 1 Review

Date Completed:

General feelings on how the session went.

In my session some of it went to plan, not everything went well, I never used thought stopping that much and need to try it next time.

I planned for exposure in training; i told my coach that I easily lose my concentration. We were in groups and we were talking to each other about our problems, some of us had similar problems and others had different. We could improve this by participating in more games and talking to each other, so this could prevent me losing concentration as my mind would be on the game and on the players.

Focusing – I tried to focus on my game and not to get easily distracted. I did get distracted when other players were shouting at each other, this is when I had to try and stay focused on the game and not on the players shouting by trying to ignore the shouting and concentrating on the game, so this did go well at the time.

Week 2
Session 1:

Area for improvement
Method to be used
Plan
Aggression