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Applied Sport Psychology

What is the purpose of training?

Answering this question will provide direction for every coach and sport psychologist. For me this is simple: to improve the athlete's technique, skills, tactics and self-development. Athletes will spend hours...

Applied Sport Psychology

Competitive Sport: Are You motivated to win or just to avoid failure?

There are many types of motivation in sport all of which can play a major role in how we handle the pressures and stresses of competition. One theory of motivation...

Theories

Amateurs vs experts

There is a theory (K Anders Ericsson) that it requires 10,000 hours of 'deliberate practice' or 10 years (1,000 hours per year, 2.75 hours per day!) to become an expert...

Applied Sport Psychology

On the pitch: Inside an experts mind

How it is that an expert footballer can play a perfectly weighted 50 yard pass cutting through the oppositions defence when under immense pressure. Swap them with a considerably less...

Applied Sport Psychology

How to become an effective Leader

Within psychology the topic of leadership has been extensively studied over the last hundred years. Leadership is defined as the process by which an individual influences a group of individuals...

Applied Sport Psychology

Debriefing in sport

In applied sport psychology debriefing is an area which has yet to be examined (Hogg, 2002). Most research relating to debriefing has focused on performance evaluationwhich has been looked at in more depth (Hogg, 2002)....

Applied Sport Psychology

Effective sport psychologists – who are they?

In addition to the standards and competencies that sport psychologists must demonstrate to achieve accreditation with the relevant governing bodies, effective sport psychologists have been well-documented within the literature as...

Applied Sport Psychology

Training to prevent choking

Within elite sport it can be a huge challenge to prepare not only physically but psychologically for the spike in pressure which can be encountered during competition. The negative phenomena...

Applied Sport Psychology

Hierarchy of needs

I am a great fan of humanism (i.e. belief in humanity) and one thing that has cropped up in my Psychologist training is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Broken down into five levels, ranging from...

Applied Sport Psychology

Interventions to prevent choking in ping pong

Various intervention techniques may reduce choking. Implicit learning strategies, such as analogy learning, have been found effective in table tennis44. This intervention provides support for EMT by showing that reductions in...

Applied Sport Psychology

Ping Pong Panic: Explicit monitoring theory (EMT) and table tennis

The London Olympics of 2012 showcased a buffet of sporting heroes, but the Games also proved a ‘choking’ minefield for many athletes. Erratic shooting and overambitious passes in the Women’s...

Applied Sport Psychology

How to develop an effective pre performance routine

This article will run from how to develop a pre performance routine, via four questions, which will help you to develop your own routine. What is a pre performance routine?...

Applied Sport Psychology

Imagery in sport: Elite athlete examples and the PETTLEP model

Imagery has been described as “an experience that mimics real experience, and involves using a combination of different sensory modalities in the absence of actual perception” (Cumming & Ramsey, 2009,...

Applied Sport Psychology

Stress in sport

Stress has been identified as crucial in sport, influencing performance as well as social functioning (Jones & Hardy, 1990). Increased anxiety and burn-out are symptoms which have been associated to...

Applied Sport Psychology

The science of human strength

Positive Psychology hit the headlines last year with announcement of the launch of ‘happy schools’. At these schools, happiness will be placed at the heart of the curriculum in order...

Applied Sport Psychology

Goal Setting

'My idea of paradise is a straight line to a goal’- Friedrich Nietzsche Every successful person whether that be an artist, sports person or leader has set goals which have...

Applied Sport Psychology

Relaxation in sports

When gearing up for a big match, very few athletes actually take the time to sit back and take a breath. The simple acts of inhaling, exhaling and relaxing for...

Applied Sport Psychology

The importance of music to performance

How many of you have listened to music while you train? How many people do you see in the gym or running down the road with their earphones in? How...

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