REDUCING ANXIETY= INCREASE PERFORMANCE
· Increase confidence in your ability to achieve your goals rather than: “I want to stimulate the physiological adaptions that will enable me to perform”
· Instinctively make decisions that will raise your confidence and mute your doubt; eg: get a new coach, trainer etc.
NEED ACHIEVEMENT THEORY
· High achievers focus on pride, success and a low motivation to avoid failure-they enjoy evaluating their abilities
· Low achievers focus on shame, and often become preoccupied with thoughts of failure
· Outcome goal orientation is common with high achievers
MORE ANXIETY….GOOD & BAD
· Reversal theory= the relationship between arousal and performance depends on ones interpretation of the arousal level
· Athletes lower in self-esteem are more likely to experience low confidence and high state anxiety
· Symptoms of high state anxiety: rapid breathing, profuse sweating, muscle tension, inability to concentrate and sleeping problems
· High performance athelets perceive their anxiety as facilitating rather than harming performance
· RTranter (2011)
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
New post on Mental Toughness
MENTAL TOUGHNESS
Clough,Earle & sewell (2002) use 4Cs theory:
1)control-capacity to exert influence
2)commitment- tendency to take active roles
3)challenge- perceive change as an opportunity to grow
4)confidence- strong self-belief
Brett Sutton (iron man coach):”coaches (trainers have the ability to instill dark, dimly lit streets (places) into minds… Train them to go there and get out of it”
Chrissie Wellington (most dominant female ironman):”need laser beam focus daily, to love the journey of training (Rtranter 2011)
STATEMENTS FROM MY PERSONAL TRAINER CRISTA ON MY PROGRESS TRAINING SO FAR.
On June 8, 2011, Dave and I started our personal training regimen today and got to know a little more about what he wants out of his sessions. He wants to put on a little more size and increase his strength to work with his own training in kick boxing. He tried out 21’s and negatives on June10 and found it to “burn”, which is a good thing for what he wants to get out of his training. June 15 he was unable to do upright rows due to a past injury and aggravating the injury again on June 10. He was unable to do side raises as well without a proper warm up. June 16 he wasn’t in class because of a Dr.appointment to try to fix an infected tooth which he thought also made an ear infection to top things off. On Fri. June 20 he went to hospital in the evening and talked to a Dr. and surgeon about his elbow injury he obtained while sparring with his friend J.W. at the gym on June 20. There were no major injuries that required any special attention at this time. June 22 His shoulder issues weren’t apparent today and once again he said that he hated me loved to hate the workout). June 24. His shoulders were tight so we switched our workout to do leg’s and biceps instead of shoulders and back. Rob recommended that I start doing some hypertrophy exercises with Dave so his muscles don’t start moving slower with his kick boxing competitions coming up. Some examples of this are: bench presses w/ clapping push-ups, close grip pull downs w/ pull-ups with fast let goes, standing calf raises w/ lunges, e.z. bar preachers w/ external rotator side(90’ arms out) w/ light weight.
July 6, 2011-We started his new program today.8, 8, failure. He had a really hard time going from hacks to lunges, saying that his knees hurt. We dropped the weight on the lunges. They worked well. He had a hard time walking after doing them. Doing his bench press he was doing a bit of a narrow grip and his tricep’s hurt a bit after doing them. The tri’s were over worked. He kept repeating throughout the program” there is still more?” He also “stopped “ drinking sugary drinks today. July 8.His legs were still too sore so we didn’t do his scheduled leg curls. July 11. I increased the weights in his exercises. Some without him knowing that I did.
Thursday, 28 July 2011
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