Focus Fun November Week 2

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If you’re a committed, dedicated trainer, then you work too hard and sacrifice too much to let your own competitive performance be disrupted by mental errors. The mental toughness techniques in sports psychology are just what you need to get your performance or team back on the fast track!

To realize your full potential, you have to start training your mind as well as your body! Just as you develop physical skills and techniques, you must learn to develop these sports psychology mental skills.

What are these mental skills?

• Staying relaxed under pressure.
• Focusing on what’s important and letting go of what you can’t control.
• Rebounding from mistakes, bad breaks and failures.
• Handling negative thinking.
• Using mental rehearsal for upcoming shows.
• Motivating yourself by setting personal short and log term goals.
• Recognizing mental traps and avoiding them.
• Developing self-confidence and a positive, go-for-it attitude.

Do you want to learn more about mental toughness training?

You work hard with your dog to achieve success, now is the time to work on your mental toughness!!!

Here are a few books that I recommend to students.

Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Taosports for Extraordinary Performance in Athletics, Business, and Life

by Chungliang Al Huang (Author), Jerry Lynch (Contributor)

That Winning Feeling!: Program Your Mind for Peak Performance,

by Robert Dover (Foreword by) by Jane Savoie (Author)

Also Kathy Keats has some wonderful books and courses on mental training.

Here her website

http://theagilitycoach.ca/product-category/mental-game/

 

 

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Monthly Drill Progression

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the best way to proof getting ready for the ring

Proofing

• While running your errands, locate at least three (3) good training locations.
• Take a photo and list the skills and where in the photo you would train.
• Use your inner child and make the training area fun.
• Include games and release you can use.

Your Task for this Week

BEFORE PROGRESSING, REVIEW YOUR CHECK LIST.

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• Consequences are always NON VERBAL… physical only … Push away ( teach to drive back B4 using it in training) U-Missed it, KK, Tap on head  … when introducing consequences always mark and play the second your dog looks back.  Pop on leash greet with play

we have talked about consequences –

tie to look at what you are using

how many do you have

are they enough for your dog

Your Task for this Week

Consequences – make a list also good ways to address lack of focus … no verbals/use physicals … teach push away and drive back to play/kk … pop leash=play

BEFORE PROGRESSING, REVIEW YOUR CHECK LIST.

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TUG

Revv/Settle

DIG

RSG

Your Task for this Week

BEFORE PROGRESSING, REVIEW YOUR CHECK LIST.

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PDF Files useful for this week

Focus Fun A-Z 2023-Training-Log

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