Mountain Bike Racing, XC MTB Training, Sports Motivation and Performance Nutrition Tips
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Can sports mental training or visualization help you trust in your ability during competition?
One Olympian thinks so.
To perform your best, you must have trust instead of over-think your performance…
I certainly learn a lot from Olympic athletes when I pick their brains. That’s why I do several interviews a year with top athletes and coaches.
Is your XC mountain bike potential held back by fear? If you can’t breakthrough your MTB performance barriers and are spinning your wheels, it’s a good bet that you are limited by a wall of worry – your own fears.
What is fear? Fear comes in many forms – fear of failure, fear of success, fear of embarrassment, and so on. Many of my students hit a wall of worry caused by these fears and many others.
From my experience, many athletes spend too much energy worrying about things they cannot control on the mountain bike course, athletic field, or court. They waste energy on irrelevant thoughts. Read the rest of this entry
Many athletes who are perfectionistic with their approach to sports think they have a great attitude about sports – until we talk about how perfectionism can hold them back from reaching their potential. Read the rest of this entry
Step-by-step guide to Using Imagery and Self-Hypnosis
By Elizabeth Quinn, About.com Guide
Research shows that it may be possible to improve sports performance and even speed up healing by using specific mental skills and techniques including imagery and self-hypnosis.
Athletes have many opportunities to try the various imagery or self-hypnosis techniques. From injury recovery to improved sports performance, these techniques are showing promise as a standard part of an athlete’s training program.
Imagery, sometimes called guided imagery, visualization, mental rehearsal, or self-hypnosis, refers to specific techniques often used by psychologists to help individuals visualize or mentally rehearse a desired event. It involves using all of the senses to create an imagined experience that feels real. By using all your senses you create a very real experience of having the desired outcome. Read the rest of this entry
