KINESIOL 3V03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Steve Harmison, Precondition, Goal Setting
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Lecture 17: peak performance & psychological skills training (pst) Systemaic and consistent pracice of mental or psychological skills. Have you ever : walked of a ield upset because you should have won, choke in a situaion, felt in the zone, bounce back from a setback. If there was a way to change these things/avoid them, it could be valuable. Take more into the situaion and allow us to change them. Most coaches agree that sport performance is at least 50% mental. Most athletes who understand this may engage early on but it goes away (work on skills in the beginning) If its 50% of the game, why isn"t it 50% preparaion. Lack of ime: it"s hard enough to do physical skill development and condiioning, treat pst as an add-on to pracice. Pst beneits pracice and should be incorporated into other training: best way to pracice in the way you compete. Excepional performance (need to have mastery level skill)