Performance Pie!! Sport performance is a blend of physical fitness, psychological toughness, and skill. But..estimating how much any on these factors contributes to sport performance is difficult. What we can say is that certain sports seem to require different qualities. Read more
Case study of a boxer We did a performance profile which revealed he did very little mental training. After introducing psychological skills training he found he had more energy.
Psychological skills training focused on teaching him relaxation skills so that he could use the recovery between rounds better.
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Key points
You examined the relative contribution of psychology, skill, and physiological factors to successful performance.
This almost always shows that people believe psychological factors are very important, but that this is not the focus of training.
So the next question is: How do I build psychology into my training?
Please open to read an example of how we built psychology training into a programme. Click to open and find out
Prof Dan Gould on Performance Profile
Dan Gould on performance profile, video 3
Performance profile 2
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