Soft Skills of Swimming Coaching – Episode 1 – Coaching Confidence
Soft Skills of Swimming Coaching – Episode 1 – Coaching Confidence
Coaching Confidence – A Practical Look!
I am often asked by swimmers, coaches and parents about Confidence.
I’ve developed a model – The Confidence Can – see below and an “equation” to help people understand Confidence:
Confidence = Belief x Evidence.
Confidence is an important mental skill and it’s a vital personal quality and attribute.
Confidence Comes in Cans, I can, You can, She can, He can, They can, We can….
Confidence comes in cans! A confident person will think, say and perform with the knowledge that they “can” do it.
If you like…Confidence is Knowing!
Coaching Confidence: Evidence.
Evidence is all the things you do – in and out of the pool that fill your confidence “can” with the knowledge – with the certainty – that you can perform when and where you need to.
Training, Swim Meets, Diet, Sleep, Dry-land…all the things you do, go towards filling your “can”.
Confidence: Belief.
The other important element in the Confidence Equation – Confidence = Belief x Evidence is Belief.
Belief is your capacity to love, to accept and to value yourself for who you are – NOT for what you do.
Why Coaches, Swimmers and Parent MUST work together to help swimmers develop Confidence.
Because in the Confidence Equation….Coaches and Swimmers are responsible for filling the Confidence “can” with Evidence but…
Self-belief is developed primarily by around age 10…and the most significant influence on the development of a child up to the age of ten is…MOM AND DAD.
With coaches coaching consistently at their best and swimmers giving all they have to everything they do – and with mom and dad modelling and reinforcing unconditional self-love, self-acceptance and self-value – swimmers can develop a strong and resilient sense of Confidence.
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