The Confidence Triad: Measuring Athlete Mental Performance

Confidence in sports comes from three things: ability, skill, and preparation. Ability is your innate gifts; what you're naturally good at. Skill is what you've learned and developed. Preparation is whether you've activated everything for this moment. Track this daily and you can see patterns over time. Confidence isn't just "did I feel confident today." That's too vague. You need to operationalize it. Break it down into the three pillars and measure each separately. That's how you actually build confidence instead of just hoping for it. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - The Confidence Triad 01:50 - Innate Ability 02:15 - Learned Skills 02:43 - Activating Abilities & Skills 03:10 - Knowing Where Confidence Comes From 04:43 - How to Evaluate Daily #confidenceinsports #athletementaltraining #sportspsychology ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I'm Noah Cavanaugh, ex-professional footballer turned triathlete and I work with high performance athletes from all sports. My focus is on helping you become the best version of yourself in and out of your sport, particularly in transition moments. This channel will include the NC Podcast and an unfiltered look into building a mental performance coaching business, running triathlons (as competitively as I can 😂), and the mental side of sport. My hope is that whether you're still competing or have retired, you'll find content that helps you navigate the complex identity transitions that happen throughout your sporting career and beyond. If you're an athlete thinking about who you are beyond your sport, this channel is for you. Stay dangerous. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 Join the FREE Brace Community: https://skool.com/brace 📩 Weekly newsletter: https://noahcavanaugh.com/newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 CONNECT WITH ME: → Instagram: @noah.cavanaugh → Brace Instagram: @BraceAthletes → LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/noah-cavanaugh → Website: https://noahcavanaugh.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Music I use: https://share.epidemicsound.com/2yesys 💼 My recommended tools & products: https://noahcavanaugh.com/noahs-picks As an Amazon Affiliate, I may earn commissions from purchases through these links. Thanks for supporting the channel!