Goal Setting in Table Tennis

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Babis Fountoulakis is a Senior Sport Psychologist currently working at The ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence with the fencing, shooting & table tennis team in Doha , Qatar from 2007.

He is a Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist (CPsychol) with the BPS, HCPC registered, and has Full Membership with the Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology.

He worked in the Organizing committee as a Sport Command Centre Manager at the 15th Asian Games in 2006, and as a Olympic & Paralympic Sports Qualification Coordinator at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004.


During this lecture he talks about Goal Setting & how to help your athletes set, plan and achieve their goals.

In Part 1:

- Introduction to goal setting & sport psychology (0:00-2:45)

- The difference between wishes and goals & why athletes need to be actively involved in setting their goals (2:45-4:33)

- Different types of goals - outcome, performance & process goals (4:33-9:06)

- Why both short and long term goals are important & what factors enhance the effectiveness of goal setting (9:06-13:59)

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In Part 2:

- How to express your goals & why goal setting works (0:00-4:21)

- SMART goals definition (4:21-6:56)

- How to set specific and realistic goals (6:56-10:29)

- How to analyze results after you have achieved or failed to reach your goal & the summary of the whole process (10:29-13:42)

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In Part 3:

- Why an action plan is important & components needed for sporting success (0:00-4:40)

- Presents a program that the Aspire Academy uses to track the progress of their athletes (4:40-8:21)

- Q&A - how to enhance your athletes self-awareness, why exposure to international tournaments is important in a young athletes development & how a coach can help their athlete with goal setting (8:21-14:04)