Sports Psychology for Performance Anxiety

Sports and Performance Anxiety For Athletes is part 1 of a series on Sport Psychology -for athletes. If you’ve ever thought: “Why do I always have to mess up when it counts?” then you’ll definitely be given some answers in this video where we talk about blocks and barriers to performance and where they come from. Clinical Sport Psychologist, Phil Johnson will help us understand why and what happens when we “choke” as athletes..
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In this interview with UK Clinical Sport Psychologist of the year 2017, Phil Johnson, will let us in on the mechanics of performance anxiety and his Four Corners model. He will also introduce us to a cool technique he uses to remove barriers to performance, that you will be able to hear much more about in part 2 of this series..
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Performance anxiety can fuel our biggest successes, or cause our perceived failures; learning how to overcome the demons of self-doubt can be key to achieving our dreams.
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As kids head back to school, that means fall sports are gearing up too! Whether it’s cheerleading, football or soccer, your kids may have some competition anxiety. See what sports mental therapist Becky Wiseman, LCSW, LSCSW says can help these student-athletes..
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Does anxiety, excess tension, or performance anxiety get in the way when you’re trying to perform in a tennis match? In “Sessions with Doc,” Dr. Patrick Cohn answers your sports psychology and mental training questions..
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This video uses sports psychology theories to explain why athletes choke under pressure. In order to perform under pressure, athletes must find and attain their own optimal level of anxiety..
I use the Cue Utilization, Multidimensional Anxiety, Yerkes-Dobson and the IZOF theories to explain the mental processes that lead us to choke under pressure. We can use these theories to gain a general understanding of what goes on in our mind in order to prepare for decisive moments in our competitions..
The key takeaway from the video is that as anxiety increases, our attention narrows. When our attention narrows, our ability to process important information needed to perform becomes momentarily impaired. This leads us to miss important information that we need to make good decisions. As we start to make mistakes, our level of anxiety increases even more, leading us to more mistakes. This continuous in a vicious cycle, leading us to choke under the pressure..
Also, when our anxiety increases, our attention can narrow to such a granular level that we begin to consciously think about performing movements that we normally perform automatically. Consciously thinking about the movement disrupts the automatic process and can result in mistakes..
In part 2 of this video, I will talk about mental and physical strategies that you can use to increase or decrease your level of anxiety at will to reach your optimal state of performance..
Sources:
Shaun white: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he03dVkhLTM&t=68s.
Ghana Vs Uraguay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDpx9GGH79I&t=198s.
Howcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g2Mc_WNXCM.
Lebron Chokes (CliveNBA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loIvTQwIPFY.
Soccer Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7kCCPpViwo&t=41s.
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Learn from Craig Sigl, the Mental Toughness Trainer how to help your athletes overcome fear and anxiety….
How To Overcome Fear and Anxiety In Sports?
The enemy of mental toughness is fear. Fear of failure. Anyone who has coached for more than about two weeks sees this in their athletes correct? Fear is nothing more than your unconscious mind, which I was talking about before, releasing some chemicals in your body making you feel something. So we need to start breaking down and helping these kids understand what fear is..
Sometimes you’re dealing with a kid who is really in the midst of fear and you see in their mind they are totally insecure. Their whole identity is built around being an athlete a jumper, a runner, or whatever..
They’ve got this fear, which makes them think their world is coming to an end. But if you were to explain to them, “Listen, John. You know what? You’re just experiencing some chemicals right now.” They are like, “What?”.
So you explain that what happens is your body releases some chemicals that make you feel something. Have you ever felt like you’ve got butterflies in your stomach? Are there any butterflies there? No. What is it? They are just some chemicals in your body that are latching on to the cells of your stomach lining and giving you the sensation that there are butterflies. Isn’t that interesting? The meaning you want to give them is it is just some chemicals doing their thing and it is nothing to worry about..
You know if you feel pressured, it literally feels like a vice grip is over their head. So people get headaches and they feel tight. Those are just chemicals too. It doesn’t mean anything. So I am all about helping these kids demystify what fear is for starters. That’s is critical to helping them let go of fear..
They eventually will start seeing fear as just some thing my body does, that’s all. And if you want to question them about it, ask them, What do you think it means? Generally they answer, “Well it means I am scare scared of disappointing my coach, my parents, my teammates. I am afraid of embarrassment.”.
What you are doing when you ask these kinds of questions, and I highly recommend when you are dealing with performance anxiety to ask questions, you are getting them to demystify it. Dig in. Don’t just let them say I am scared and let it hang there. What you want to do is listen for emotional words like Disappointment, Embarrassment, Failure..
I don’t let that hang out in the air. Ask them, what does failure mean? You will invariably, if you ask enough questions, get an emotion for an answer. And when you get to the emotion, guess what? You explain they are just the chemicals signals in your body..
Here is the ultimate truth, we do fear for two reasons. One is fear of physical danger and two is fear emotions. That’s it. There’s no other reason for fear and fear of emotion can be eliminated..
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[Have you ever experienced performance anxiety? Do your nerves tend to overtake you before any big sporting event or other public performance?
Many people are challenged with debilitating performance anxiety, and one of our listeners recently wrote in to ask that we cover a special episode on the topic. So, today we’ll be discussing some powerful tools to help you rid yourself of the nerves and bring your performance to a whole new level!
Now, for those of you who may be thinking that a sports discussion really isn’t for you, hold tight—the tools we use to combat performance anxiety can also be used for combatting difficulties with things like public speaking and voicing your opinions effectively at work..
No matter what anxiety issues you may be experiencing in public, you will probably benefit from this discussion..
So, what’s the big deal about “game day” anyway? Why do we let ourselves get so worked up about it? Instinctively, we understand what it is that makes us so nervous, but it can be hard to put it into words. As a teenager, I remember dreading game day: events were scheduled during the day, as opposed to the evenings when we practiced, which felt awkward to me physically; and the coaches and other players would get so worked up that they’d be yelling at each other (and me) aggressively, which felt awful to me mentally and emotionally. When we take an objective glance at this scenario, it’s not hard to grasp what would cause it to be anxiety-inducing for most people..
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