When you participate in a sport you may work very hard at training your body, you work for hours, you practice and push yourself. However all this hard work and you may not be training your mind to be athletic. Performance Enhancement so you can Play your best. Improve your sports anxiety, agility, strength, winning attitude.
Your fears and the stress you put on yourself provides the greatest drawbacks to a good performance.
Obstacles to Reaching your goal
Road blocks that make it more difficult or impossible to reach your goal. Almost always, the obstacles are conditions that cause anxiety.
- Fear of Failing
- Fear of being humiliated
- Fear of competition
- Feeling of intimidation
Eliminate the Obstacle
Your super performance starts (and continues and ends in your head). If you think or say to yourself you can’t run the fastest race, hit the ball hard enough or jog a mile,” then you won’t. Negative thoughts produce poorly executed moves, unrefined skills, and unfocused efforts. Begin by changing the negative picture in your mind to a positive one.
Work on your attitude:
- Inappropriate aggression
- Lack of confidence
- Lack of concentration
- Lack of assertiveness
Rid yourself of physical symptoms:
- Shortness of breath
- Blurred vision
- Butterflies
- Muscle fatigue
- Tension
You can:
- Improve your confidence
- Increase your agility
- Improve your coordination
- Improve your concentration
- Heighten your awareness of body position
- Eliminate inhibiting thoughts in regards to your performance
- Increase your capacity to enjoy your sport
Overcome fears and pressures. Program yourself to have a winning attitude and play a perfect game, run the fastest race, score the most points. Accomplish a specific goal for personal achievement!
Visualization or mental rehearsal, is effective because of the fact that as you imagine an activity your neurons fire in exactly the same patterns they would if you were actually performing the activity. As you see the picture in your mind, your subconscious is convinced that the desired feat is possible.