The Importance Of Self-Confidence In A Hockey Team

Self-confidence is not a tool that people are born with. It takes years of practice or even a life time of practice to obtain self-confidence, but when you can achieve having self-confidence you tend not to lose it as it will benefit many aspects of your life. According to dictionary.com self-confidence is “realistic confidence in one’s own judgement, ability and power.” As a hockey player here at USU self-confidence can make or break your game, if you don’t feel like a winner you will not play like a winner. In the history of hockey all winning teams give credit to their team having It’s not a natural feeling to think you can beat the odds, the difficulty or overcome the adversity that happens in competition but having the feeling that you …show more content…
With exercise we have practice 3 to 4 times a week depending which can count as exercise for some people but for me I try to get a minimal of 3 lifts in a week during the season. With this 3 days it still easy to hit and target every muscle group I need. I also do additional cardio along with lifting as a stress reliever. With around 2 hours in the gym working on my body for the purpose of hockey I feel that I have a high level of confidence after I finish my workout. With this high confidence I improve my performance mainly, with better performance I feel that I have enhanced enjoyment, I enjoy the sport so much better when I am on my best game possible. Also my I am building important life skills for off the ice too, such as putting forth this work ethic to my job in the future will make me also succeed to my fullest and I will hopefully enjoy my future …show more content…
In my opinon when it comes to self-confidence and trying to achive a good amount of confidence you and only yourself is the man expert in that field. My reasoning for that is only one knows what makes one happy. You can’t have someone else come in and tell them what is and what’s not going to make them happy or what is going to make them get rid of stress and anxiety. I was lucky enough for mine to all happen in the gym. I hope that the program I have done will help someone else who is like me but I will never expect it to work on anyone else but me. This is also just not an in season confidence builder, I use the gym as my main confidence builder all the time whether I am playing hockey or not, and I plan on using this program or another form of my program for many years to