Goal Setting for Sports and Athletics

Goal Setting for Sports and Athletics

Improving Athletic Performance Through the Use of Goals - a Course for Coaches and Athletes






Course Description

Goals are powerful motivating tools, providing athletes and teams with direction, focus, a reason to commit and a means to evaluate their performance. Goals allow athletes and teams to deal with adversity, adapt and persevere, to continue to be motivated even when events do not turn out as planned. Unfortunately, the mental side of sports is often overlooked by coaches and athletes alike.


Goal setting, when done properly helps athletes and teams tap their potential to its fullest. Properly established and utilized goals not only motivate, but provide athletes and teams with a constant source of direction and feedback, allowing for a constant, steady improvement and the best opportunity for achieving at a high level.

Goal Setting for Sport: Learning the Ins and Outs of Using Goals to Improve Athletic Performance is a course designed to make the goal setting process as simple as possible as well as providing understanding and insight into how and why the goal setting process works.

Lessons contain a narrated video, action steps and thought questions, all designed to guide a coach or athletes through the process of successfully establishing meaningful goals that will lead to athletic success.

What are the requirements?

Students need only to have access to a computer, the internet and a desire to learn and improve.

What am I going to get from this course?

Over 11 lectures and 1 hour of content!
Students will have an understanding of the principles of goal setting as applied to sport and athletic competition.
Students will be able to apply goal setting concepts appropriately and manage the process of setting, monitoring and evaluating their own goals.
Students will be able to identify and avoid common errors in the goal setting process.
Students who are coaches will be able to successfully guide their team and/or individual athletes through the goal setting process.
Students who are athletes will have a better understanding about using goals and goal setting as a tool for self-motivation and controlling and guiding improvement of skills and performance.

What is the target audience?

Athletes of any sport who wish to enhance their performance through the use of goals and proper goal setting methods.
Coaches of any sport who wish to enhance the performance of their team or individual athletes through the use of proper goal setting methods.
Any individual who desire to learn more about the goal setting process as it relates to sports and athletic competition