KINE 4520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Greg Norman
26 Jan 2018
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Application: large and sudden decrements in performance will not occur if cognitive state anxiety can be min or eliminated, failing this, necessary to closely monitor phys arousal to avoid triggering a catastrophe in performance. If a catastrophe in performance does occur, best to give athlete a rest to allow phys arousal to return to a low level. When faced with debilitating stress and arousal, athletes do not experience small incremental decreases in performance, they suffer large and dramatic decrements that are catastrophic. Once athlete suffers catastrophic decrement in performance, small incremental reductions in arousal rarely bring performance back to the pre-catastrohpci level. Ex) greg norman: golf performance did not decline in small measured amounts, he suffered a catastrophic dropoff in performance jean van de velde s (cid:272)ollapse in the final hole of 1999 (cid:271)ritish open. New york yankees and boson red sox in 2004. Variables: cognitive anxiety, phys arousal (somatic anxiety) and performance.
