8 - Performance and outcome goals

Helps control

Anxiety

Outcome goals

Concerned with end results - whether win or lose

Helps to increase

Confidence

100m sprint (p-goal)

Improve running technique

Outcome goals (time length)

Medium to long term

Goal setting is used for

Motivation

Types of goals (only 2)

Performance goal Outcome goal

Performance goals (time length)

Short term

Tennis (p-goal)

Shorten backswing for more accuracy

Trampolining (P-goal)

Technique improvement of a front somersault

Performance goal

Technique related or performance related to the activity

Circuit training (o-goal)

To finish the set without stopping

Golf (p-goal)

To try stop using a poor swing when driving from a tee

Cycling (o-goal)

Try to draw level in a race

Athletics (o-goal)

Win 100m race

Football (o-goal)

Win the league

Widely used by sportsmen and women for...

training and performance