Performance-focused sports psychology

SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY FOCUSED ON PERFORMANCE

Achieving results in sports is vital. Well, the results are the fruits of the effort invested, both in training and competition, and give a guide to where to go. Psychological work is presented as an effective method in situations in which the results do not arrive, do not arrive in the quantity or quality that we would expect, or we simply believe that they can improve.
In crisis situations, the psychological aspect becomes important: because at this time, greater psychological and emotional control is required. But not only that: it has been proven that continued psychological work helps prevent and manage future situations in which the results are not as expected.
Optimal performance in sports is achieved by working on the physical, technical, tactical and psychological conditions of the athlete. As soon as one of the parts is forgotten, the system falters, and it's easy to stagnate in the results.
Throughout the history of sports psychology, part of the research has focused on the study of the set of psychological skills that are related to success in sports. As a result of these investigations, psychological training programs were born: they focus on training these mental skills in the athlete with the aim of optimizing their performance.
On the other hand, the figure of the coach is of vital importance when we talk about sports performance. From sports psychology it is possible to advise the coach so that he can obtain tools and techniques that favor an increase in the performance of the team or athletes under his responsibility.

Performance-focused sports psychology allows working on the following aspects:

  • Self-regulation of athlete, as a key aspect so that this can reach an optimal state of performance, achieved from psychological training. It implies that the athlete gains control over his cognitions, emotions and behaviors around sports practice.
  • Self-regulation of coach and the regulation of athletes by this, together with the management of processes to achieve an optimization of planning, training and competition, with the ultimate goal of achieving increased performance. In this case, the psychologist acts advising the technician.
  • Work on the leadership, communication and cohesion as key aspects in the performance of Sport teams.

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