For young athletes, a common difficulty is combining their sporting ambitions with school.
How can you succeed in your project in parallel while having a Plan A and a Plan B?
How do you stay focused to do well in exams and earn your qualifications while still performing in sport?
These are the questions many parents of young sports enthusiasts ask themselves. How do you juggle both? How can you succeed on both fronts?
In my mental training sessions and coaching for 14- to 18-year-olds, these questions come up.
Supporting your teenager in their goals and success
Help them gain clarity about the stakes.
To feel good, engaged and motivated.
The issue of confidence plays an important role in behaviour, motivation and how success is perceived.
Help them believe in themselves. Believing in themselves to enable belief in success. Help them commit in a balanced, appropriate way while dealing with difficulties linked to stress, competition and the challenges of the present and the future.
Helping the young person prepare mentally
Allow yourself to succeed.
Don't set school and sport against each other.
Give yourself the best possible chance to thrive and succeed.
Help them get to know themselves better. To learn from their strengths and weaknesses. To discover untapped or underused potential.
With mental coaching sessions for your teenager you enable them to:
Having sporting goals doesn't mean giving up on school and wanting to learn well at school doesn't mean giving up sporting performance.
Providing the keys to success
Give your child the opportunity to better focus on their projects.
Experiencing success in one area often benefits the other.
These are the focuses of my coaching sessions with young people, whether they're athletes or not.
The idea of Plan A and Plan B: How do you choose both?
For the young people I support and help to prepare mentally, school remains central. Sporting success and academic success are both important goals for the athletes I work with — for their parents and for me!
See you soon,
Frédéric