Emotional factors
Anger
Failing to control your anger can have very negative consequences for your performance development. There are multiple causes of anger in training:
- making mistakes during a repetition drillRepeating an aspect of performance (e.g. a serve in badminton) over and over again.
- teammates making mistakes in conditioned games When you take the rules of a game and alter them to encourage players to act in a certain way.
- teammates judging you when trying to do deep breathing
This can then lead to you doing something wrong which then leads to negative results in your training.
Question
Using the three step process, consider how failing to control your anger can have a negative impact when trying to develop your lay-up in basketball.
An example answer might be:
Failing to control your anger could have negative consequences when trying to develop your lay-up through repetition drills in basketball.
This means you could get really frustrated after missing several shots.
This results in you losing all focus in your session and not improving.
Fear
Failing to control your fear can also have negative consequences for your performance development. You may become fearful due to a range of different things in training.
Amongst other things, this fear could arise from being judged by others and/or from failing in a progressed session. In each case, it can have negative consequences for your performance in training.
Question
Using the three step process, consider how fear could have a negative impact when using deep breathing in football.
An example answer might be:
Fear of others judging you could hinder your ability to carry out deep breathing properly when trying to control your fears in football.
This means you could become aware and embarrassed by your teammates laughing at you when initially trying deep breathing in the changing room before a game.
This could result in you abandoning the approach and not learning to control your fears.
Resilience
Being resilient can be very helpful when trying to develop an identified area of development. When you analyse your data collection results, you will be trying to develop a weakness throughout your development plan.
When developing a weakness, you will undoubtedly make mistakes. At this point, you need to show resilience in order to continue developing. Being resilient here will enable you to have a growth mindset, accept feedback and use it to move forward.
Adopting a growth mindset will help you embrace challenges and attack them head on. It will help you view mistakes and feedback as steps forward in the learning process rather than criticism. This mindset will mean you can continue to push forward and show your resilience. Use this in any subject and view mistakes as being helpful to your learning.
Question
Using the three step process, consider how resilience can impact you and your teammates when doing a team building game called the Human Knot.
An example answer might be:
Being resilient can help you and your teammates when trying to untangle yourselves in the Human Knot for the social factor.
This means that when you make mistakes like going under when you should have gone over, you can bounce back from it.
This results in you moving on and trying out new solutions to eventually untangle the knot.