Coaching Resilience in Young Athletes: The #1 Tool to Keep Them Mentally Tough

😩 If your team struggles to recover from mistakes and stay mentally tough, they might be missing one key thing. Learn the #1 sports psychology tool to build resilience in girl athletes and help them recover from mistakes fast → https://coachfreetraining.com

In this episode, we’re digging into why simply telling athletes “shake it off” doesn’t work—and what to do instead.

Discover how to train mental toughness in your team using a system that’s simple, fast, and game-changing. Whether you coach volleyball, basketball, soccer, softball, or any other team or individual sport... this tool will help your athletes respond to mistakes like champions and stay in peak performance mode. 🧠💪

👋🏼 I'm Coach Bre – a mental performance coach for girl athletes, Co-Founder of The Elite Competitor, and a long-time head volleyball coach and 4x state champion. I’ve been in your shoes—and I’ve seen how one mental skill can transform a team’s confidence under pressure.

Today, we’re breaking down the “Snapback Routine,” why it works, how to teach it, and how to measure growth in the mental game.

🕓 Key Moments:
00:00 Introduction: The Problem with Normalizing Mistakes
00:55 Why Telling Isn't Teaching
02:05 The Snapback Routine: A System for Recovery
03:26 Customizing the Snapback Routine
06:14 Practicing and Measuring Mental Toughness

💥 What You’ll Learn:
✔️ Why “mistakes are okay” isn’t enough
✔️ How to teach your team to recover from mistakes in 3 seconds or less
✔️ The science behind fight/flight/freeze and how it shows up in games
✔️ How to measure mental toughness over the course of a season
✔️ Real practice ideas to integrate this today

👇 Coaches – comment below:
How long does it take your team to bounce back from mistakes?

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