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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Sports Psychology

Team,

Achieving your physical goals can be greatly impacted by your state of mind.  It may not be enough to simply show up at the gym.  If your mind isn't right, you may not achieve your true potential.  Sports psychology offers some great tools that can be used to enhance your performance in and out of the gym. Please take some time to view the video below.  At this early stage of the contest, some of the techniques mentioned, such as focusing on the process and not just the end result or goal, could be instrumental in helping each of you navigate the everyday pressures you may experience. Visualization is another key technique.  Being able to visualize or imagine your workout, your effort, or your result in advance of it's actual occurrence can actually help program your mind to be  prepared when the event is at hand.  Physical challenges will always present you with mental hurdles and the aforementioned techniques can help you successfully manage the situation.

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