KINESIOL 3V03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Big Air, Proprioception, Transitional Fossil
14 Apr 2016
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Successful athletes use imagery more extensively and more systemically then less successful athletes. Larry bird looked up naional anthem, like playing in a championship. Decreasing anxiety: prior to and during pracice and compleion. Increasing self-conidence: to perform a new skill in pracice and compeiion, to succeed in an upcoming compeiion and to overcome obstacles. Increasing moivaion: coninue paricipaion in sport ater a poor performance or ater injury through imagery of past successful performances. Increasing atenional control: increase your ability to block out distracions (fans, players, unwanted feelings) More systemaically: as part of their training programs, supplement physical pracice with imagery pracice when injured/faigues. Have a greater imagery ability: more control over their thoughts (especially negaive thoughts, are able to manipulate many diferent types of experiences (re-create and create new experiences) 86% of us olympic sport psychologists report using imagery with their athletes. Sport psychologists use imager more than any other mental training technique.
