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Applied Sport Psychology

The Quiet eye and its application to skill acquisition and performance

How we learn and refine motor skills and how we prevent performance breakdown in pressurised or demanding circumstances are among the most important questions within sport psychology and skill acquisition....

Applied Sport Psychology

The role of reflective practice

Reflective practice is – in its simplest term simply recalling memories, but more specifically it is recalling memories of your previous performances. This can be your most recent performance, including:...

Injuries

Maintaining motivation throughout injury

Unfortunately in competitive sporting environments, injuries are likely to occur. As a basketball player, despite strength and conditioning training, knee and ankle injuries are frequent occurrences which almost cannot be...

Physiology

Caffeine consumption and perceptual response in sport

Caffeine is commonly used as an ergogenic aid by many athletes due to the almost unequivocal support in the literature on the beneficial impacts of ingesting caffeine on submaximal performance. ...

Applied Sport Psychology

Can we develop or enhance the concept of grit?

The concept of grit is often discussed in the field of high performance athletics. We have seen the post-game interviews with coaches and players alike stating that “we need to...

Applied Sport Psychology

The importance of awareness

For me awareness is one of the essential ingredients of developing belief. Awareness has been highlighted by many as a key indicator of success in a range of performance environments. ...

Applied Sport Psychology

Developing helpful and useful beliefs in sport: The theory of Cell Assembly

Cell assembly theory developed by Donald Hebb (1949) explains how within the brain we develop neural pathways that act like roads, these are formed through learning, experiences, and the thoughts...

Applied Sport Psychology

Are top athletes born or made?

Have you ever seen the television series Made (MTV)? On this show one person wants to change his or her life and often wants to be ‘made’ into the person...

Applied Sport Psychology

Using music as a warm-up for winning

In a sport and exercise context, music is typically used in one of four ways; Asychnronous, Synchronous, Pre-task and Recuperative. The current article will explore how we can use listening to...

Physiology

Hitting the wall: How physiology and psychology interact during the latter stages of a marathon

Whether you have experienced it yourself or you have gleefully skipped past those that experienced it, most people who have completed a marathon in their lifetime will be familiar with...

Mental Health

‘So What's Next?’ – Life After Professional Sport

Retirement – the reality! For many years, sport psychologists have referred to retirement from sport as a ‘transition’. However, Nesti and Littlewood (2010) argue that the term ‘transition’ suggests that...

Mental Health

Overtraining - how to prevent it?

We usually see the bright side of top level sports. Our favorites lifting the trophy or being decorated with an Olympic medal. We cheer for them - and do not...

Applied Sport Psychology

How are sports stars motivated

Motivation involves the biological, emotional, social and cognitive forces that activate our behaviour. In simpler terms, motivation is used to describe why we do something. Motivation is a big topic...

Applied Sport Psychology

From pit stop to pole position- The role of a Sport Psychologist

Psychology is a word that is thrown around with the likes of therapy and psychiatry. Adding sport on the front, still does not seem to shift these negative connotations. It...

Physiology

Sprint interval training: A psychological perspective

Continuous training (CT) is defined as ‘a bout of prolonged steady-state activity’ (Haskell et al, 2007) and has been utilised as an effective intervention to stimulate favourable physiological adaptations to...

Applied Sport Psychology

Skill acquisition in sport - The journey to expertise

Skill Acquisition in Sport This article attempts to provide simplistic insight into the concept of Skill Acquisition in sport, and specifically what actions coaches and teachers need to be conscious...

Applied Sport Psychology

Born to be number one, or is second actually the best?

There are many theories surrounding the development of personality. The Biological Approach to personality suggests that genetics are responsible, with a well researched link between genetics and personality traits (Eysenck,...

Applied Sport Psychology

Coaching clichés (part 1): Are they useful? Only if they’re truly heard.

According to dictionary.com, a “cliché” is “a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact...

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