KINESIOL 3V03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Interpersonal Communication, Team Building, Sport Psychology
14 Apr 2016
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Of 45 studies on psychological skills training (pst) programs, 85% found posiive performance efects. Athletes from olympic level down report that mental training and discipline play a huge part in their success: get more enjoyment out of it when they"re most task oriented. No ready-made soluions on how coaches and sport psychologists can integrate and implement a. Not just for elite athletes: appropriate for all athletes, best to do early on. Ideal ime for implemening pst may be with beginning sport paricipants. Young athletes may need adjustments such as: fewer goals, shorter training sessions, simpler verbal instrucion, turning the exercises into games. Ideal if qualiied consuling sport psychologist plans, implements, and supervises pst: rarely feasible except at higher levels of compeiion. Also coach"s responsibility to provide pst: pst balances out the other aspects of technique and physical skills, tell athletes its important, provides coninuity and integraion with other training.
