1. What comes to mind when the word
motivation is said?
This presentation will highlight the key
facts of motivation and what lies
within it

2. Motivation Defined
As noted by Phycology Today (2013) motivation
is literally the desire to do things. It's the crucial
element in setting and attaining goals—and
research shows you can influence your own
levels of motivation and self-control. So figure
out what you want, power through the pain
period, and start being who you want to be.

3. Motivation in my mind & scholar
article
• Motivation is the perseverance to get the best
out of everyday activities.
• Something that energizes, direct, and sustains
behaviours
• Primary role of a coach to bring athlete to
their potential.
• An athlete’s effort combined with a coach’s
personality has a major effect on one’s
motivation.

4. Positive Effects of Motivation
• Work in best possible manner to improve
performance
• Rewards provide for better performance

5. Negative effects of Motivation
• Works on the notion that if an athlete
fails to reach targeted goal, they will be
punished

6. Intrinsic Motivation
• Means that your motivation to accomplish
your goal comes from within you. Your
motivation is from you. It is determined by
your own values and goals.
• Internal desires to perform a particular task,
people do certain activities because it gives
them pleasure, develops a particular skill, or
because it’s morally the right thing to do.

7. Extrinsic Motivation
• Factors external to the individual and
unrelated to the task they are performing.
• Examples include money, good grades, and
other rewards.

8. Intrinsic &Extrinsic Motivation in Sport –
Scholar Article
Highlighted by Robert J Vallerand
• Coaches believe that • Strategy that coaches use to
motivation is the main monitor whether an athlete
ingredient in executing a is motivated or not is to see
positive and successful if they put the time in to
sporting performance. work on a certain
• Article highlights that
coaches find it hard to
determine whether or not
an athlete is fully engaged
and motivated.

9. . . Variables . .
• Weather
• Diet
• Ones mental state
• Goals – if they don’t have a goal why would
they be motivated?
• Geographical location

10. Sports Psychology
• Coaches need to understand and demonstrate
the predictors and outcomes in sport
participation.
• Rewards, evaluation, recognition and
pressures are crucial concepts
• Motivation theories provide a framework
which predicts whether or not an athlete will
be successful.

11. References
Motivation http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/motivation
Supporting Athletes Needs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxsJT6XwNy0
Motivate http://www.motivate.com.au/
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r26710/LRCS/papers/128.pdf
Successful Coaches Views on Motivation and Motivational Strategies
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07303084.2003.106085
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