Visualization: Lifting weights for your mind

1. Visualization: Lifting weights for your mind Chapter 17 - Evan Longoria

2. Visualization • Used to experience, or re-experience an event in your mind • Specific skills, achieving success, reliving a memory

3. Benefits to Visualization • Neural Programming • Focus • Learn complex Movements • Slow Motion • More Practice Time • Confidence

4. Neural Programming • Your mind cannot tell the difference between a real and imagined experience • Conditioning your brain

5. The Zone • Extreme mental focus helps your intensity, readiness, and performance • Learning complex movements - gymnast videos

6. Slow motion • Used for practicing complex skills • Not used for performance and situations

7. Increase your practice time • 30 minutes at night • Over a year that adds up to 40 hours of extra practice • Golf Video

8. When should you visualize • Night time • Warm-up • Right after a successful performance • Right after a poor performance • Baseball video

9. How to make your imagery effective • Vividness • From black and white to color • Physical and emotion sensations - gymnasts • Baseball golf video

10. Controllability • Keep your mind in control, keep it positive • 1) Visualize the skill or routine up to the point where the mistake happens and then stop right before the mistake • 2) Start over and repeat this segment of the skill, over and over • 3) Then try to add the next piece

11. Other ways to be effective • Positive Attitude • Previous experience – hitting a gapper, crushing a drive, stroking the three ball, gliding in track • Do not force the imagery, relax and think about it • First person viewpoint, not third person

12. Some more ways to be effective • Practice imagining yourself in these situations • Start small, then start adding complex moves – Pitching video