Having defined motivation in the previous article, let's clarify the factors that increase your daily motivation, which keeps you working hard and interested in your sport. These factors include:

1. High basic motivation: If the sporting results you aim to achieve and the resulting social and material rewards you will obtain from achieving them increase your basic motivation, then, indirectly, your desire to train hard daily will also increase, thus boosting your daily motivation. Therefore, it is important that, while setting goals to achieve in your daily training sessions, you also set medium- or long-term sporting objectives. For example, it might be advisable to focus on mastering certain aspects of your swing in training, keeping in mind that the Spanish Championship for your category will be held at the end of the season, and mastering those aspects could help you finish in the top 10.

2. The interest of the content of the daily activity: the more you like the tasks to be carried out that make up the training, the greater the increase in daily motivation.

3. Setting immediate or very near challenges: it is important, as we mentioned in the previous article and with the aim of increasing that daily motivation, that you train every day to achieve certain goals.

4. Novelty and variety of daily tasks: the more different the activities that make up the daily training and the fewer times you have faced them, the greater the increase in daily motivation.

5. Fun: The more fun you have during training, the greater your daily motivation will be.

6. Social reinforcement: If your parents or any other family member, as well as your training partners, your friends or your coach, on occasion encourage you for what you do, tell you about the possibilities and qualities they perceive you possess, reward you by attending an important competition for you or with something material, etc., your daily motivation level will also increase.

7. Perception of mastery of tasks: To increase daily motivation, it's important that you feel you have mastered each training exercise, proving to yourselves that you have the ability to perform them successfully. Therefore, it's also crucial that you don't try to master too many technical aspects at once, but rather master them gradually, and once you've automated one, move on to practicing the next.

8. The perception of progress: gradually mastering each of the aspects discussed in the previous section will indicate your own progress.

9. Personal satisfaction.

10. Any other type of immediate gratification.

Encarna María Lozano Casero

Psychologist specializing in Physical Activity and Sport