KINE 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Free Throw, Controllability
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8. 2- sport psychology skills: arousal regulation: performance routines. Eating, prepping, packing, resting, training focusing in 24 hours before a performance. What you eat, when you eat it, prepping down tasks. Performance execution from start to finish: attentional cues. A trigger that is familiar that will keep you focused. Whatever your cue is it should have personal meaning to you and make sense to you: self-talk. Serve at least two functions (instruction and motivation) Have interpretive elements associated with the content of the self-statements. Incorporates seeing an image, feeling the movements and experiencing smells, tastes, or sounds. Imagery works but it needs to be practiced. Basketball free throw, golf swing, quadruple axel, tall stance. Floor routine in gymnastics, football play, entire race, component of endurance race. Need to be done with other types of imagery to be specific. Get into a specific zone you are aiming for. Use all senses to make images as vivid and detailed as possible.