Funda Mentals of Mental Training 1 Funda Mentals

Funda. Mentals of Mental Training 1

Funda. Mentals of Mental Training Confidence and Trust To develop this strong belief, the athlete The athlete must have a strong belief in Themust athlete must also train in anhave train with coaches that their ability to have a successful outcome environment that istechnical free fromknowledge mental extensive and emotional harm 2

PEAK Performance What is Peak Performance: (flow, zone) emotional freedom attention is When the athlete’s focused exclusively on the task allowing their bodies the freedom to perform mental freedom Free from physical, mental, and emotional physical freedom limitations 3

Freedom starts with knowledge unconscious incompetence unconscious competence The athlete can The athlete perform the skills doesn’t knows what to what they are able to perform in any situation, meaning iencent knowledge onlearns the task before automatically what they don’t do and how to do need to know without “thinking” know it about it 4

misconceptions conscious unconscious competence This athlete attention ontype the technique and canfocuses create their a daydreaming of performance mechanics of the skill during performance. where the athlete doesn’tthe have to “think” about what they are doing, so they mindlessly perform without their attention on whatonthey are the doing The focusing athlete focuses their attention feeling technique and mechanics of the skill during the performance. Remember Peak Performance, Flow, and being in the athlete to beon fully engaged in attain the task. The Zone athleterequires focusesthe their attention visual cues to the technique and mechanics of the skill during the performance. Since this athlete is not “thinking” about the skill, their not controlling on the task, their therefore they can The attention athlete is is NOT movements, they are still experience intrusive thoughts, freaking outorinoverthinking the middle performing freely. The athlete is NOT thinking of thethoughts, skill, or inconsistent performance. negative either. 5

Physical Limitations unconscious incompetence Conscious Competence Stage • • • learns by accident didn’t have enough training forgets how they do it 6 unconscious competence

Free the mind PEAK Performance and the rest will follow emotional regulation Our brain control our muscle movements, along with controlling everything else mental tools physical knowledge 7 Our mind controls your thoughts, our thoughts control our emotions, our emotions direct affect our performance

Mental Tools • Empowering Self-talk • Performance Cues • Visualization • Arm-sets • Breathing • Pre-Performance routine 8

Courageous Performance PEAK Performance To be able to: from: emotional Must be FREE • cope with distractions • harassment • • regulation negative thoughts • punishment fears • ridicule • judgement • isolation mental expectations • threats cope with uncontrollable • • situations • social media • alienation • • take risks conditional tools • support let go of mistakes • control emotions physical knowledge 9

PEAK Performance emotional regulation mental tools physical knowledge 10

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