New Sport Psychology course now available on the Athletics Learning Centre
Australian Athletics is pleased to launch a new Sport Psychology course on the Athletics Learning Centre, designed to help coaches and athletes better understand the person behind the performance.
The course is available now through the Athletics Learning Centre and is open to all coaches and athletes. Coaches who complete the course will earn 30 CPD points, with the course taking approximately 90 minutes to complete.
Sport psychology is part of how we understand athletes, shape environments and help people perform when it counts. This new course takes a practical approach, helping learners explore how psychological skills can support performance, development and wellbeing in athletics.
Practical sport psychology for athletics
Across the course, coaches and athletes will examine how people think, feel, behave, prepare and respond in sport. The focus is not on turning coaches into psychologists, but on helping them create better learning environments, support athlete development and build confidence under pressure.
Great coaching develops more than movement. It develops the person who has to produce the movement under pressure.
What the course explores
Psychological skills
How imagery, routines, self talk, reflection and pressure practice can be developed through everyday coaching.
Beliefs about ability
How athletes respond to challenge, feedback, effort and setbacks, and how coaches can support a growth focused approach.
Self awareness
How athletes can better understand their preparation needs, emotional patterns and performance routines.
Motivation
How enjoyment, purpose, autonomy, competence and belonging influence long term engagement.
Emotion
How athletes can notice emotion, manage pressure and return to the next useful action in training and competition.
Supporting better coaching conversations
This course encourages coaches to ask better questions, reflect on their own practice and consider what each athlete needs before, during and after performance. It also supports athletes to better understand themselves, trust their preparation and keep growing through the demands of sport.
Whether you coach sprints, jumps, throws, endurance, para athletics, junior athletes or developing performers, sport psychology is part of the daily coaching environment. It shows up in how athletes respond to feedback, how they prepare for competition and how they keep going when progress is not linear.
Start the course today
The Sport Psychology course is now available through the Athletics Learning Centre.
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