Endeavour to get players/athletes performing at their optimum level.
Its objective is to teach skills through applying the manner in which sports person thinks.
Works on a person’s cognitive skills; helps them make a decision that benefits them.
It’s not all related for sports people that are going through adversity.
Both the mind and the body are meant to improve through applying sports psychology. Coleman Griffith invented sports psychology in 1925; Griffith will always be remembered and referred to as; THE FATHER OF SPORT PSYCHOLOGY.
Sport Psychology- Benefits
If an athlete/player isn’t mentally okay then they can’t be successful.
Gets a sports person to focus on the process rather than the result; which can take the pressure off.
Improves camaraderie as well as motivation to play a given role in a team sport environment.
Sport Psychology- Negatives
Focus too much on analysing the negatives in order to obtain perfection.
It’s important to get a balance between over thinking as a sports person and not overthinking your job.
Too much sports psychology could set an athlete back.
It decreases the opportunity of the given person being authentic, as it can make a sports person contrived and to over confident or the antithesis.
Sport Psychology (Final Thoughts)
Despite the chance of regressing through over analysis, ultimately, it’s a good thing for a person to work on improving.
An athlete/sports person, only needs one breakthrough to be what’s deemed successful.
It focuses on the processes and working on every aspect of yourself.
It’s a gamble that should be taken, because there’s an opportunity of getting better as a person and as an athlete in the sporting industry.
To sum it all up, you can take out of it what you want to.
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The last comment I get but your thought process is good.
The ultimate aim in this is making you, the sportsman a better person and overall having a better nature of understanding of others
The last comment I get but your thought process is good.
The ultimate aim in this is making you, the sportsman a better person and overall having a better nature of understanding of others