I recently delved into some research about a 2-day certification course I will be attending that helps high school level and junior athletes discover what it is they really want to get out of the sports they are playing, and how to help them train to attain the goals that they set for themselves. One of the trainers said, "The problem that most of our students have in sticking to a training program is that they focus on the process instead of the reward."
I had written an article on this very subject two years earlier, and found it fascinating that the same exact 'truth' would rear it's head again. (That's the way it goes with the truth - it will always cut through and define problems and point to solutions with extreme clarity.) Anyway, I
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Sarah is a varsity level high school player and has never even thought about going on the pro tour. However, several colleges have been watching her and if she can make it to the State Tournament this year, her coach has told her that at least a partial college scholarship is all but certain. Sarah has thought long and hard about this, because her parents are not wealthy and she really wants to get an education. Sarah's been working on improving her weaknesses for two weeks. She slowly, but surely, has been seeing some improvement.
Her alarm goes off, and Sarah does not want to go to the courts. It's raining, it's cold and she's facing all the same challenges that Jessica is in regards to getting her morning training done. Sarah reaches over, turns the buzzer off on her alarm clock and...goes to the courts and gets in her morning training.
Now in this example...what's the difference? What is the magical ingredient that courses through Sarah's veins that makes her get to the courts? Sarah is not the nationally ranked top junior player that Jessica is. What makes Sarah go to the courts and what makes Jessica stay home? The answer may not be what you think. Believe it or not, these two girls are very focused, but in opposite ways. Remember what the trainer I heard said? "The problem that most of our students have in sticking to a training program is that they focus on the process instead of the reward." I have come to the conclusion that this trainer got it about 50%
Parents think that the more money they put into the child’s athletic expenses, they increase their chances of college scholarships and leading to a professional athletic career. An exceedingly amount of money can be spent on athletics because parents want to be able to provide every opportunity they can for their child to become better and to be successful. For example, at Jim-McLean Junior Golf Performance Academy, there are only twenty-four spots open each year for distinct private instruction. With limited entry comes at a cost of $39,875 to $58,875 annually. A noticeable agglomeration of money comes out of the family’s gross income to fund their child’s athletics.
By setting a reward fullfilling a certain goal will allow the to be more likely motivated to continue their hard
As the embarrassment set in, she came to question why her tennis team was full of the white elite and why all of her friends thought there was no point in playing a sport. She wanted to change her sport so that it wasn’t just for the white elite, and change what her friends thought of women’s sports. At the age of 14, Billie won her first championship (Summer). Ever since then she has had big dreams to change the world through tennis and one day play in the Wimbledon. A year later, she was awarded the opportunity to be coached by the legendary tennis player, Alice Marble (Summer).
Junior Research Paper First Draft Serena Williams, Mia Hamm, Alex Morgan, Billie Jean-King, what do all of these great record beating athletes have in common? They’re all women. Less than 50 years ago it was unimaginable for woman to be playing sports besides tennis and cheerleading. Woman did not have the opportunities that men did to go out and try out for any sport that they wanted.
In swimming, I can’t expect myself to swim like Michael Phelps in less than a month by swimming dead sprints six hours straight, but it would take small improvements such as having a healthy diet, good sleep, and improving my swim technique and implementing it when I start to feel tired, because that is where my technique and speed starts to progress. Completing minor achievable goals can lead to impatience and tempt you to making major objectives that you want great improvements on in the shortest amount of time, such as when Brother eagerly proclaims,”Once I succeeded in teaching Doodle to walk, I began to believe in my own infallibility and I prepared a terrific development program for him,”(Hurst 421) presenting the idea of Brother thinking he could make immense improvements on Doodle because Brother believed he was perfect just after teaching him to walk. Short-term goals will over time help you climb the ladder to your awaited prize, but the temptation of pride gets in our way to sidetrack us from these small tasks and mislead us to humongous objectives that we want