Principles of Coaching Test 2: Chapter 7
Motivating your Athletes
Motivating your athletes - correct answer ✔✔directing behavior toward a goal and pursuing that goal
with some level of effort
Intrinsic Rewards - correct answer ✔✔Internally satisfying or operating from the inside "self-fueling"
Extrinsic Rewards - correct answer ✔✔Coming from or operating from the outside; provided from the
outside by others
Two Important needs to motivating your athletes - correct answer ✔✔1. Need to have fun
2. Need to feel worthy
How to have fun - correct answer ✔✔*Optimal activation/intensity (flow experience-attention is so
centered on the activity that concentration is automatic)
*Creating conditions to optimize activation-Level of skill difficulty fits athlete, variety in practice, avoid
constant instruction....... Avoid constant evaluation
*Other sources of fun- team culture, social events, competition with teammates rather than against
How winners think - correct answer ✔✔motivated to achieve success
*failure is caused by lack of effort, thereby increasing motivation
how losers think - correct answer ✔✔motivated to avoid failure
-protecting self worth: 1) minimum effort 2) rejection of success 3) excuses-excuses 4) self-fulfilling
prophecy 5) athletes learn to fear failure
Enhancing Athletes' Motivation - correct answer ✔✔1. Promote mentality that success is not defined by
winning
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