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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
The Mental Connection to Training and Racing.
Here are a few links to some articles that deal with the mental connection. They were sent to me by JT Buser who works with this aspect of athletes. If you have any questions for him on these please let me know. I am currently coaching JT and we are looking at developing this aspect as a service offering for athletes.
http://www.trifuel.com/training/sports-psychology/your-inner-coach-how-to-handle-negative-thoughts
Let us know your thoughts on these - thanks.
http://www.trifuel.com/training
Let us know your thoughts on these - thanks.
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This is a great topic and I would love to hear how people are working imagery and postive thinking into their performance. I have been using visualization since I was downhill racing in high school- back during the era of the "inner game". I found that visualization of tough gate sequences really worked well on the actual performance. I think it was about a year ago there was a big article in the New York Times that discussed the physical effects of visualization. Sets of athletes were compared by pet scan- on group actively trained, I believe one group actively trained, another used training and visualization and a third visualized only. The group using both improved the most as far as muscles fibers actively firing (and I believe getting stronger), however, the visualization group was fairly close to the training only group. I used a lot of imagary and visualization while recovering from my recent major injury- and in some of my sports I have already seen improvement as compared to last season or pre- injury.
I have also used self hypnosis while competing to change perception of discomfort. Starting the third day of a stage canoe race I had a severe case of tendonitis in my shoulder- every time I lifted my arm it felt like I was being stabbed with a knife. Advil didn't touch it and I wasn't going to let my partner (or myself) down by quitting. By using self-hypnosis (I have training in hypnotherapy) I changed the perception of the pain to that of heat by visualizing a warm bucket of water running down my shoulder each time I paddled on that side. It worked- my mind used the gate theory of pain (where you can feel heat or pain at one time but not both).
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