CONCLUSIONS
What interests coaches and others who are involved in the sport training procedure, is to improve the coaching methods and the content of training, so as to produce expert athletes for the sport.
Therefore, it is important for every coach to decide which practice should be used not only for improving the physical fitness, the technique, and the tactic, but also the developing of psychological skills.
These psychological skills should support the procedure of learning and improvement of physical, technical and tactical skills.
Self-talk has been shown to be helpful for the compliment of novice and/or adult athletes by facilitating the improvement of their performance and also, for using it in sport and in everyday life activities.
Athletes develop their self-confidence in general using self-talk, which leads to the improvement of the quality of life.
Finally, interventions including self-talk practice were more effective than those not including self-talk practice.
The results of this study support the effectiveness of self-talk in team sports and encourage the use of self-talk as a strategy to facilitate learning, to enhance athletes’ performance and to improve their self-efficacy, which is very important factor for novice athletes.
Therefore, during the coaching procedure and if the goal is the improvement of technique, he/she should use the instructional self-talk