16 Week Face of America Training Plan & Guide

Associated with commitment, consider:          Positive and negative effects from teammates, team dynamics (if applicable). [For Coaches/Athletes] Ensure that daily training goals, expectations, and responsibilities are clearly defined and understood. [For Coaches] Maintain fair, firm, and equal accountability. Occasionally choose an alternate or fun exercise regimen (e.g. on a recovery day) to avoid training boredom. Highlight and post progress (i.e. improving times, performance achievements) throughout the season, and place in a consistently visible area. Try to create some fun and friendly competition on occasion amongst teammates or training partners as 24/7 seriousness will adversely affect commitment over the long term. Performance anxiety; ensure you incorporate steps/techniques to mitigate it, otherwise, it will affect commitment level. Coach-athlete/athlete-coach rapport – they’re critical to commitment. When injured and appropriate, have alternate training (i.e., swim, water running, walk). about their ability to control their situation, and to let go or shift focus away from those aspects out of their control. Moreover, “Athletes who exhibit internal control tend to believe their behaviors influence outcomes. Those who exhibit external control tend to attribute their outcomes to outside forces such as fate, chance, and other people (Cox, 1998).” To summarize, concentrate on what you can control and ignore i

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