For your convenience we have included links to the full-text of these articles. Six mental training strategies are used to help swimmers reach a higher level of excellence. Taken from an interview with Bill Galvin, this article discusses the coach' s task in helping an athlete handle pressure, deal with adversity, and remain focussed over long periods of preparation for competition. Competition plans and routines. The author looks at ways to develop mental skills through competitive plans and routines.
Coaches get tips on helping athletes stay focussed during games or athletic events.
The effect of three mental preparation strategies on the performance of a complex response time task. An experiment, using 45 randomly assigned male university varsity team sport athletes, examined the effects of three mental preparation strategies on the performance of a complex response time task. Your guide to developing mental muscle. A guide on using mental training to succeed in training, sport and life in general. The author discusses a training programme to prepare athletes to maintain control in stressful competitive situations and to allow them to optimise their performance.