KP200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Mushing, Deeper Understanding
11 Dec 2018
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Purpose is to engage expert coaches in re ective process to explore perceptions of features if athletes that they consider optimal performers. Fifteen national or olympic level coaches interviews. John wooden basketball coach of ucla resonates with contemporary practitioners. His ideas are promoted for medical students, coaching and business environments and teaching. Wooden believed in re ection, trial and error and soul searching. Gould and maynard see that successful olympic athletes share psychological states of attributes, cognitive and behavioural strategies and personal dispositions. Jones hanton and connaughton believe in mental toughness , belief in self, ability to focus, long-term goal motivation, mushing oneself to the limit, regulating performance, handling pressure, failure and success. Mental toughness: natural or developed psychological edge that enables you to cope better than opponents: key set of attribute for optimizing perfromacen in competitions. Nccp no single factor including psychological preparedness leads to perfromacen optimizations on their own.
