Mental Muscle Confidence Challenge Home

Posted on: June 2nd 2017

Here’s your home base for all the downloads, links, and instructions you need for the Confidence Challenge. Prepare for lift-off!

Challenge Basic Info:

Each week we will focus on a different skill or self-awareness study. You’ll have a chance to practice new mental tricks and strategies at practice (or your bouts) each week. You’ll get exercises and worksheets to help you make the most of this special coaching opportunity.

We will be meeting and sharing our experience with the challenge in our Facebook Group. I encourage you to be active in the group, ask questions, and share as much as you’re willing. Of course, if you don’t feel comfortable sharing your experience, you can just read and listen – you’ll learn a lot from the group. [Don’t forget to visit the group and request to be added.]

Here’s a snapshot of the next four weeks and what we’ll be working on:

As we add worksheets and materials throughout the challenge, we’ll also add links right here:

So, What is Confidence?

Confidence in itself is a pretty general term. Depending on the situation, confidence can hold slightly different meanings. We will be focusing on self-confidence in this Challenge. So what is Self-Confidence? It’s your ability to believe in yourself to succeed at an action based on your abilities and qualities, and the skills that you have acquired. It involves:

  • Thoughts
  • Feelings
  • Actions

We know that we can accomplish a task: nothing is stopping us! We know we can do it, and it shows in the way we think, act, and especially the way we feel (confidence).

In this challenge, we will be focusing on self-confidence in roller derby. The challenge is here to help you strengthen and reflect on your abilities, qualities, and skills that you need while competing, even within a specific moment in the game.

How Do You improve confidence?

A key piece of information to keep in mind throughout  the challenge, self-confidence is a skill. Therefore, with some work you can change the way you perceive yourself as a roller derby athlete. This will require self-awareness, perseverance, and reflection.

The goal of this challenge is to provide you the tools to help you increase your overall confidence as an athlete. More importantly, it’s to give you an opportunity to strengthen your confidence in pivotal situations (defending on a power jam, jammer in the 1st jam of the game, etc.)

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BONUS: while you’re participating in the Challenge, if you’re not already a member, you get access to all the Mental Muscle archives. Be sure to take a look!

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