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| Title: | Psychological Coaching for Peak Efficiency |
| Creator: | Dr. Steven Ungerleider |
| Size: | 272 pages (paperback) |
| Writer: | Rodale Books |
| Copyright Yr: | 2005 |
Dr. Steven Ungerleider’s Psychological Coaching for Peak Efficiency provides loads of perception into the psychological recreation, together with quite a few sport-specific examples that may be utilized to bowling as effectively.
Like most books that cope with the psychological recreation, Ungerleider talks in regards to the idea of self-talk and affirmations. These are each key features of sport psychology which might be used throughout all sports activities. He prioritizes the worth of utilizing self-talk and staying within the current with a purpose to give attention to the objectives at hand. It’s straightforward to get caught up in doubts in regards to the future, however self-talk should be targeted on the current and on what athletes can management.
Visualization is one other key part of the psychological recreation, and Dr. Ungerleider discusses not solely its worth but in addition why it really works. Utilizing CAT and PET scans on sufferers, docs have confirmed that the identical area of the mind is at work if you end up seeing one thing in entrance of you or picturing one thing in your thoughts.
Relatively than having a picture move via the attention’s retina, via the visible cortex, and to the upper facilities of the mind, visualization begins within the mind earlier than going to the visible cortex. The truth that each processes use the identical components of the mind reinforces the significance of images, as a result of the mind actually treats actual experiences and visualized experiences as the identical factor. An imagined state of affairs is identical as one thing skilled in actual life.
Psychological Coaching for Peak Efficiency additionally provides perception into an usually missed aspect of the psychological recreation: leisure. Along with utilizing leisure methods earlier than competitors, top-level athletes even have some type of leisure apply day by day of the week to enhance their coaching schedules.
Athletes from each sport use completely different leisure rituals earlier than competing. The writer recommends experimenting to search out what works for you, from quiet moments of meditation to listening to music from a selected playlist. If skilled athletes are any indication, then there’s no single finest …