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Professor Sheldon Hanton Cardiff School of Sport

Learn how to utilize competition anxiety to enhance swimming performance with mental toughness strategies, attitude, and mindset techniques. Explore the impact of pressure, stress, positive and negative anxiety interpretations, control, goal setting, and intervention research in elite swimming. Gain insights on developing confidence, managing intensity, setting goals, and implementing effective pre-competition routines for peak performance.

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Professor Sheldon Hanton Cardiff School of Sport

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  1. 16th FINA World Sports Medicine CongressUsing Competition Anxiety to Optimise Swimming Performance Professor Sheldon Hanton Cardiff School of Sport

  2. Mental Toughness • Natural or developed psychological edge that enables you to: • Cope better than opponents • Under pressure be: • Consistent • Determined • Focused • Confident • In Control

  3. Mental Toughness Framework Attitude & Mindset Competition Post-Competition Training

  4. Mental Toughness Framework Attitude & Mindset Competition Post-Competition Training “Loving” Pressure Channelling Anxiety

  5. Personal Organisational Performance The Demands of Elite Swimming

  6. Positive or Negative Direction From Stress to Anxiety Direction • Cognitive Anxiety • Mental nervousness • Worries, concerns etc. • Somatic Anxiety • Physical nervousness • Tension, butterflies etc.

  7. Expectation • Positive support • Negative pressure Pressure • Help you • Hurt you

  8. Applied Research & Implications

  9. Skill Level Intensity Direction Confidence Non Elite Elite High Intensity Low Intensity Positive Direction Negative Direction

  10. Implications • Type of stress management intervention • Confidence protection management

  11. Positive Anxiety Interpretations Negative Anxiety Interpretations Perceived Control & Goal Setting High Control Low Control Process Goals Performance Goals Outcome Goals

  12. Implication • Multiple goal setting strategy

  13. Development Research • Early unwanted negative experiences • Gradually learning the benefits of anxiety • Acceptance and requirement • Concentration improvement • External persuasion • Psychological routines

  14. Intervention Research • Competitive swimmers - Debilitators • Intervention • Pre-Competition Routine • Symptom Recreation and Restructuring • Pre-Race Routine • Rationalization and Control

  15. + 2.3 seconds + 1.4 seconds + 0.8 seconds • 0.9 seconds • Lifetime Best High Intensity +ve Low Intensity RACE 2 8 weeks RACE 3 12 weeks RACE 4 16 weeks RACE 1 4 weeks -ve Intensity Confidence Direction

  16. Career Planning • Wide ranging experiences • Education on emotions • Investment in mental skills development

  17. Questions

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