How To Use The Power of Visualization In Sports With Peter Vidmar
Channel: Mental Toughness Trainer
Date: 2013-07-19

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How To Use The Power of Visualization In Sports Part 10 

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Every morning I would always do a little workout. A little run, a little jog, I'll talk more in detail about that later.  At the end of that, I would mentally review my routines. I would close my eyes and here is another thing about mental preparation.

You can visualize yourself performing a skill in two different ways.  One is to visualize yourself by watching yourself perform the skill. Like as if you are watching yourself on television or on a big screen. That is helpful. 

What is much more helpful is to actually go inside yourself and visualize what will I feel like when I am flipping and moving?

When you see really good gymnasts getting ready for a competition, right before they go up on the pommel horse or the high bar or the rings, you see them with their eyes close and they are swaying. You can tell they are not watching themselves.

They are doing it. They are inside knowing what it feels like to go backwards and twisting and seeing with their eyes close moving around. What are they doing? Yet what they are doing is performing that actual routine physically in their minds. 

You can see them going through the motions of doing the skill.

Then all of a sudden you see them opening their eyes, they chalk up a hand signal to the judge.  They are just doing it one more time, except they are doing it for real. When it comes to that kind of visualization, you have got to jump inside of yourself and visualize that way.

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