KINE 3000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Time Management, Decision-Making
2 Apr 2017
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The goal of sport and exercise psychologists are to be able to facilitate involvement, performance and enjoyment of physical activity. Need to identify the perfect range of arousal/zone of optimal functioning. Maintain that range of arousal by controlling mental and physiological and emotional states in order to maximize performance. Decreases arousal- deep breathing in through nose out through mouth. Breathing to increase arousal shallow breaths longer inhale short exhale think of activation and energy: progressive relaxation. Tension and relaxation are mutually exclusive: performance routines. Develop sequenced actions or thoughts prior to competition. Can be resting, eating well, and getting enough sleep the night before competition. Can be a mental execution of the race before starting: attention cues. Verbal self talk / pep talk. Physical doing the action or bumping into something: self talk. Interpretive to the person based on what is being said. These are types of self-talk that are based on the performance.
