Breathing Focus Reset
Focus
Legend
- player
- coach / parent
- movement path
How it works
Use a breathing technique to regain focus after a mistake and immediately execute the next skill with full attention.
What you need
- lacrosse stick
- lacrosse ball
- cones
- goal
Your focus
Loss of focus after a mistake is one of the most common performance inhibitors in youth sports. Teaching a breathing reset protocol gives players a concrete tool to interrupt the distraction spiral and return to task focus.
Player runs a shooting drill. After each miss, player must stop, take 2 slow deep breaths, and say their focus cue aloud before the next shot.
Coach tracks whether the shot after the breathing reset is better than the missed shot.
Over 20 shots, compare accuracy of shots following the reset versus shots following a make.
Debrief: did the reset change focus and accuracy?
Helpful cues
- Breathe in for 4 counts, out for 4 counts, that's your reset
- Say your cue out loud, it commits your focus to it
- The shot after the reset is the most important shot, give it full attention
Adjust the challenge
Make it easier
Strip it back
Practice the breathing reset in isolation before attaching it to misses.
UpLVL it
Add the next challenge
Add time pressure: the reset must be completed within 5 seconds before the next rep.No account needed
Build a practice plan
Add drills, keep the plan in this browser, then share a link with your staff or parents.This library helps you find the right drill. Inside UpLVL the right drill finds the player.
This library helps you find the right drill. Inside UpLVL the right drill finds the player.After every practice, UpLVL automatically surfaces the drills each player needs to work on most. See it for yourself.