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THE USE OF MENTAL TRAINING IN SPORTS
JARMO LIUKKONEN
Key word: mental training
- 1. Promoting recovery
- § supercompesation
- 2. Ideomotor training (mental rehearsal)
- § skills acquisition for novice atheletes
- § strengthening the automatisation of nerve paths
- § altering techniques
- § analysing and correcting physiological training
- § compensating physical training
- 3. Tactical learning / compensation
- 4. Analysis of individual optimal emotions > self awareness
- 5. Anchoring optimal emotions to forthcoming performances
- § effectiveness
- § perception of competence
- 6. Increasing concentration
- § excluding external &internal stimuli
- § concentration to own preparation rituals
- 7. Increasing creativeness in performances
- § preparation for unprepared stress factors / altered circumstances
- § preparation for strange competitive circumstances
- § meeting an unknown and different opponent
- 8. Desensitization of traumatic emotional experiences
- § Injuries
- § Failures
- 9. Treatment / elimination of injuries, physiological disturbancies in performance settings
- 10. Ego strengthening
- § Self-esteem
- § Mental toughness
- § Training motivation
Abstract
The use of mental training in sports means: promoting recovery, mover training, self awareness, tactical learning / compensation, anchoring optimal emotions to forthcoming performances, increasing concentration, increasing creativeness in performances, desensitization of traumatic emotional experiences, Treatment / elimination of injuries, physiological disturbances in performance settings and ego strengthening.
