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Mental Factors Influencing Performance

Mental Factors Influencing Performance. Watch the short video clip and focus mainly on the managing emotions section. Managing emotions in sports. Sport places a wide variety of stress factors on performers: It can be physically exhausting Your expectation of success

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Mental Factors Influencing Performance

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  1. Mental Factors Influencing Performance

  2. Watch the short video clip and focus mainly on the managing emotions section. Managing emotions in sports • Sport places a wide variety of stress factors on performers: • It can be physically exhausting • Your expectation of success • You might be faced with superior opponents • The competition might be very important to you • The environment you are taking part in might be intimidating

  3. Performers adopt different strategies to get psyched up before a performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eGCsEQ15L4&feature=related Sometimes this will have a positive impact Consider some possible outcomes in relation to positive impact on your performance

  4. Perform at maximum potential level Handle pressure and remain calm Make appropriate decisions during performance Higher levels of confidence – ‘attack performance’ Perform with more determination – ‘sustain the performance for longer’ Heighten concentration – focus more on task

  5. Sometimes this will have a negative impact Consider some possible outcomes in relation to negative impact on your performance

  6. Feeling of defeat before participating Overconfidence resulting in a loss of focus Lack of control causing erratic results Poor decision making due to apprehension Lack of commitment to effective preparation Aggression / rule breaking in performance

  7. Being able to manage emotions is equally as important as preparing physically and technically: This can be done by using the process of visualisation or imagery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyn0UNKgvZA

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