Athlete Tip: 3 Mental Training Tips Every Athlete Needs Before Tryouts

Comparison at tryouts is costing her more than she realizes. What's Your Competitor Style Quiz → https://athlete.fyi/yt-quiz📌 Resources & Tools:🎓 Strengthen Your Athlete's Mental Game - Free Training for Parents → https://trainhergame.com/mom📬 Join our weekly TIPS newsletter → https://sportsmom.fyi/yt-tips💬 Use this Conversation Guide w/ Scripts to talk to your athlete about mental training → https://sportsmom.fyi/convo-guide🎙 Listen to the Podcast: Raising Elite CompetitorsFREE for Athletes:🔹 Share with your athlete: What's Your Competitor Style Quiz → https://athlete.fyi/yt-quiz🎥 YouTube Playlist for Athletes → https://www.youtube.com/@AthleteMentalEdgeOUR SIGNATURE PROGRAMS:👉 Join The Elite Mental Game for girl athletes → https://trainhergame.com/yt-emgConnect with us!IG: ➡︎ https://www.instagram.com/elitecompetitorcoachTik Tok: ➡︎ https://www.tiktok.com/@raisingelitecompetitorsYouTube: ➡︎ SUBSCRIBE 🙌🏼 and hang out in our community here with us!⏰ Key Timestamps:00:00 Intro: My Best & Worst Tryouts00:49 Why Tryouts Are a Mental Game02:00 How Nerves Derail Your Performance03:24 Tip #1: Reframe What Tryouts Are05:49 Tip #2: Use Visualization08:44 Tip #3: Focus On Your Strengths11:11 Recap of the Three Tips11:53 Closing & Call to Action👋🏼 I'm Coach Bre — a mental performance coach for girl athletes, Co-Founder of The Elite Competitor, and a former head volleyball coach and 4-time state champion. This episode features Coach Saylor, one of our mental performance coaches inside The Elite Mental Game, teaching athletes three mental training tips for tryouts. In this video, Coach Saylor breaks down why comparison is one of the biggest confidence killers at tryouts, and gives your athlete three specific mental training tips to walk in ready instead. This one's built to be shared directly with her. If tryouts are coming up for your daughter, this gives her something real to lean on beyond just physical prep.What You'll Learn:✅ Why tryouts should be reframed as a showcase, not a test✅ A visualization technique that uses a real past best moment, not an imagined perfect one✅ How to name three personal strengths as anchors against the comparison spiral✅ Why comparison rarely works in her favor, and what to focus on instead✅ Where to find her free Competitor Style Quiz for a mental edge going into tryouts💬 What's one strength you bring to your sport that you might not give yourself credit for?P.S. A few stats worth knowing:⚡️Reframing pre-performance anxiety as excitement improves confidence and performance (Brooks, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2014)⚡️A 2025 study of 500 athletes found imagery ability is directly linked to athletic achievement level (Malinauskas et al., Frontiers in Psychology, 2025)⚡️A meta-analysis of 32 studies found self-talk interventions produce a real, measurable improvement in sport performance (Hatzigeorgiadis et al., Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2011)The Raising Elite Competitors podcast and YouTube channel is hosted by The Elite Competitor and is dedicated to helping sports moms strengthen their daughter's mental game and confidence in order to help her perform her best when it matters most.#tryoutprep #sportsmom #mentalperformance #girlssports #elitementalgameJoin the Elite Competitor Athlete Challenge Aug 18-20th!join.elitecompetitor.com/challenge