Personal Best: Introduction
OU sports academic Simon Rea discusses what we can learn from sports pyschology to help us reach our own goals.
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Personal Best: Values
OU sports academic Simon Rea and athletes share their tips on goal setting and why it is important to align our goals with our values.
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Personal Best: Support
OU sports academic Jessica Pinchbeck and athletes explain why social support is vital in helping achieve personal goals.
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Personal Best: Motivation
OU sports academic Caroline Heaney and athletes discuss the sources of motivation and how to get motivated to achieve goals.
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Personal Best: Setbacks
OU sports academic Caroline Heaney and athletes explore ways to deal with setbacks in the process of achieving personal goals.
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Personal Best: Persistence
OU sports academic Jessica Pinchbeck and athletes talk about developing 'grit' to overcome adversity and progress towards a goal.
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Personal Best: Completion
OU sports academic Jessica Pinchbeck congratulates those who have achieved their goals and encourages reflection for future improvement.
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Motivation and factors affecting motivation
This free course explores the term 'motivation' and factors affecting motivation. This includes looking at the most influential theories of motivation that contribute to understanding the causes of motivation. The motivation of sports people and people working in sport and fitness environments are used to help understand the theories presented.
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Exploring sport coaching and psychology
This free course, Exploring sport coaching and psychology, investigates how scientific and management ideas contribute to success while also taking you on a journey through unique sporting case studies and insights that will change how you view and study sport. You will consider how the mind, the body, the environment and training techniques all contribute to optimum fitness.
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