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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...

Theories

Deliberate Practice

Anders Ericsson carried out extensive research on what it takes to become an expert. Ericsson (1993) says that it takes 10,000 hours (20 hours for 50 weeks a year for ten...

Applied Sport Psychology

What is mental toughness and why do you need it?

In today’s world, it is rare to see individuals competing for pure pleasure, relaxation and innocent recreation. Rare too is the phrase “it does not matter whether we win or...

Applied Sport Psychology

Motivation and fear of failure

Motivation is often thought of as simply having the energy and enthusiasm to carry out a behaviour, task, or activity such as exercising and practicing. However motivation goes much deeper...

Applied Sport Psychology

Anxiety within sport

You would be hard pressed to find an athlete who doesn’t react in some way to imminent competition. This article focuses on the feelings of anxiety and stress that some...

Theories

Humanistic Psychology in Sport

Humanism originated as a psychological framework in the 1950’s as a response to the negative outlook on humankind by Behaviourism and Psychoanalysis, the dominating frameworks at the time. Humanism became...

Theories

Stress in elite sports

At the present time I am a Masters student studying Sport and Exercise Psychology and therefore I have had very little experience in delivering sport psychology support to athletes. This...

Injuries

Addicted to exercise? When too much exercise might be harmful

There are many physical and psychological benefits of exercise, so it might seem paradoxical that there is also a risk that, at really high levels, excessive exercise may produce negative...

Theories

The home advantage phenomena and its effect on Team GB during the 2012 London Olympic games

Home advantage has been a widely researched subject area, and it is an area in which more and more research is conducted as we aim to investigate what it is...

Theories

Crowd and the home advantage

A definition of home advantage describes it as a phenomenon in which the home teams in sport win over 50% of games played under a balanced home and away schedule...

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Aggression in sport

In sport, aggression is a characteristic that can have many negative as well as positive effects on performance. Aggression is defined as “any form of behaviour directed toward the goal...

Applied Sport Psychology

Intervention strategies to prevent choking in penalty shootouts

Choking in penalty shootouts is an area which has been widely studied among sport psychologists. Much research has looked at the reasons as to why players choke, however there is...

Applied Sport Psychology

Why do players Choke in Penalty shootouts?

Choking in sport is a topic which is widely discussed among sport psychologists because of its negative effect on athletic performance. Performing highly challenging skills under immense pressure and in...

Theories

A review of mental toughness

In sport there is an increasing awareness of how important psychological factors are within athletic performance and it is now being recognized that physical talent is not the only component...

Applied Sport Psychology

Attention in sport

Athletes do not lose physical ability overnight. The reason for a change in performance is more likely to be related to fluctuations in cognitive processes, one of which being attention....

Applied Sport Psychology

The power of sound

It is common to hear music blaring in sports stadiums and a frequent sight at events, such as the Olympics, is to see athletes ‘psyching’ themselves up with their headphones...

Theories

Tiger Woods – can personality explain his behaviour?

Within Psychology personality refers to “psychological qualities that contribute to an individual’s enduring and distinctive patterns of feeling, thinking and behaving”. This psychohistory of Tiger Woods intends to examine several...

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