Pack Inclusions
Module Outcomes
- Define motivation.
- Disassemble your motivation.
- Shape your motivation.
- Train your motivation for competition.
- Learn how to switch on motivation when you need it - Motivation pump.
- Have an action plan for motivation preparation.
- Identify your personal goals and rewards.
- Set your priorities.
- Know how to put your game face on!
Module Contents
Motivation Core Knowledge
Level 1 Motivation
- Why Motivation is mental skill number 1.
- Does "Psyching up" really work?
- Motivation Myths and concepts
- How do you know if someone is motivated?
- Motivation Defined for sport.
- Longitudinal count down preparation
Summary of key topics in motivation
Level 2 Motivation - Advanced
Shaping your motivation. Motivation is a skill and can be learned.
- Definition and explanation of skill.
- Motor skill
- Subskill Chaining
- Basic skill Shaping
- Rewards and reinforcement
- Disassembling motivation.
Motivation Core Training
Level 1 Motivation - Basic
- Goals and rewards
- Exercise M1 Goals and Rewards.
- Exercise M2 Work required.
Level 2 Motivation - Advanced
- Motivation Exercise M 3 - Shaping motivation.
- Motivation Exercise M 4 – Motivation pump
Motivation Breakdown – Troubleshooting
- Freezing or "Jamming up"
- Flat battery syndrome
- Too hard
- Confusion
- Re-motivation after major breakdown.
Module Outcomes
- Understand the concept of Confidence.
- Be able to train confidence.
- Understand skill acquisition.
- Learn how experts train their confidence.
- Learn to build your skill set.
- Build your own training diary.
Module Contents
Confidence Core Knowledge
Topic 1: What is Confidence?
a) Common myths
b) What is confidence?
Exercise Conf 1
c) Definition of confidence
Topic 2: Confidence building through essential background knowledge
a) Principle of Skill Acquisition
b) Measurement of Confidence.
c) Specific skills and response generalisation
d) Principle of Behavioural Chaining
Topic 3. Current facts about expert practise
Topic 4. Things you need to know about experts and how to become like them
An expert example – “The Right Stuff”
Confidence Core Training.
Part 1. Skill acquisition,
The Fun, Ugh and Cruise Zones
Part 2. Disciplined practise of discrete skills
1. Discrete skills
2. Discrete skills in different conditions
3. Disciplined Practise – Building the skill
4. Assessment – Your practise style
Part 3. Building your skill set
1. Practise in real life – Building your own training plan
2. How to Build your Skill set.
- Basic skill set construction
- Why you should do this
- The real world: Ideal SAC’s and Real SAC’s
a) Measuring Performance
b) Performance Variability
c) Directive Feedback
Part 4. The SAC training diary.
- Alert!
- Handy tips
- Sub SAC’s
- The Pro’s do it
- SAC’s in different environments
- Advanced skill set construction
- Do the Professionals do this?
Module Outcomes
- Understand the concept of Concentration.
- Understand the parts of the brain which create your sports skills.
- Understand how to focus on the essential cues in your sport.
- Learn about concentration cue thoughts in your mind.
- Learn how to train your focus of attention during play.
- Learn to train your correct concentration content during play.
Module Contents
Zog and Thog: Prehistoric pioneers in concentration
Concentration Core Knowledge
Topic 1: The sporting brain
Topic 2: How your brain organises your sports skills
a) You have two brains
b) How the cortex and cerebellum create and control your skills.
Topic 3: Learning Task Relevant Focus - Selective attention and switching
Why didn't the dinosaur eat Zog?
- Selective attention
- Identifying Task Relevant Focus Points (TRF's)
- Focus switching - from one TRF point to the next.
Topic 4: How concentration produces sport skills
Topic 5: Perfect concentration - Concentration Cue Thoughts (CCT's)
- Selective attention and appropriate cue selection
- Concentration cue thoughts (CCT's)
Topic 6 Identifying the contents of your concentration
Topic 7: Type A Concentration
i) The Concentration Circle – Type A or not Type A?
ii) Three different Concentration Circles for each stage of the SAC
iii) Moving through time
iv) The concentration circle is linked to your physical skills
v) The Contents of your Attention in the SAC.
Concentration Core Training
Concentration Exercise 1: Type A TRF identification
- Identify the relevant TRF points
- Practice identifying and using the TRF points during practice and competition performance
- Your personal Type A TRF identification sheet
Concentration Exercise 2: Type A CCT development
Your personal Type A CCT development sheet
Module Outcomes
- Understand emotion control.
- Translate common buzz words like “Flow”.
- Learn how to maintain emotion control during play.
- Train your emotion control for competition.
- Learn how to switch out of negative emotions during play.
- Collect data on your positive emotional set when playing
- Learn how to cope with choking and yips
- Learn how to neutralise pre-competition anxiety.
- Have a plan for pre-competition preparation.
Module Contents
The Concept of Self Control
Flow and the Winning Zone Mindset
Control Core Knowledge
1. Buzz words you need to know about
The inner zones
- Skiers and runners high
- Endorphins and altered states
- Endocannabinoids and Transient Hypofrontality.
2. Flow: How to get it ……… but do you want it?
3. The Problem with Flow
4. The control Zone
5. The inverted U curve
6. What the control Zone looks like
7. Choke point: Choking and Yips
The four Choke and Yips syndromes
Control Core Training
1. The “Chill Skill”
Control core exercise 1: Deep Diaphragm Breathing “DDB”
Control core exercise 2: Body tension and Breathing “BTaB”
2. The “Safety Zone” skill
Control core exercise 3: The Safety Zone.
3. Linking skill
Control core exercise 4: Linking.
4. Emotion Control Database
Control Core exercise 5: Emotion Control Database
5. Choking and Yips
Control Core exercise 6: Yips and Choking.
6. Pre-Competition Anxiety
Control Core exercise 7: Pre-Competition Preparation.
Control Core exercise 8: Pre-Game Plan, Focus and Control.
Other Programs
Winning Zone performance psychology helps to build mental skills for the next level in your sport
Professional Pack.
Professionals and top-level players require advanced knowledge to enhance and maintain their competition performance success.
The Winning Zone Pro Pack provides detailed information, knowledge and exercises to help you progress on your path to winning performance. Successful players continue to upgrade their knowledge base.
Winning Zone training is educational and self-training. The numerous exercise inclusions in each module become unique to you. This is not one size fits all training.
Each of the 9 modules is divided into “Core knowledge” and “Core training”.
See the contents of each module here.
Young Player Pack.
The Young Players pack is designed for competitive players aged 10 and above. Young Players who are serious about improving their game, progressing up the ranks and performing well in competition will benefit from the knowledge and exercises in the Winning Zone Mental Skills training program.
Young players will learn to cope with occasional frustrations when they know how to build their mental skills while their brain is still developing.
Each of the 4 modules is divided into “Core knowledge” and “Core training”.