Originally published Nov 1995
At the top levels of competitive sport, winning is no longer just a matter of physical preparation. Mental preparation is vital.
The right mental approach can help athletes to make the most of their training and produce their best performances when it really counts. The SPORT PSYCH Sports Psychology Basic Training Package program teaches athletes techniques
- to prepare consistently, regardless of extraneous influences that might otherwise adversely effect your performance.
- to relax, focus or refocus, leading to consistent before and during performance
- to aid motivation and self image which help focus you during difficult circumstances or hard training sessions.
The SPORT PSYCH Sports Psychology Basic Training Package (also known as SASI SPort PSYCH) has been designed at the South Australian Sports Institute (SASI) by leading sport psychologists Graham Winter and Cathy Martin. It is Australia’s first self or coach administered sport psychology training package and has been developed specially for high performance athletes.
Some of the topics covered in the workbook and 4 audiotapes include :
- Goal Setting
- Where to begin
- Basic Rules of Goal Setting
- Goal Selection
- Long and Short Term Goals
- “Result” and “Process” Goals
- Day to day Goals.
- Controlling “Psych” levels
- Getting ‘Psyched-Up’
- Relaxation Training.
- Focusing Your Concentration
- Ideal Focus.
- Improving Your focusing skills.
- Goal setting.
- Using goal setting for better focus.
- Setting Action goals.
- Pre-competition routines.
- Within-competition results.
- Using routines in your sport.
- Relaxation as a focusing method.
- Performance segmenting.
- Using segments to help focus concentration.
- Developing Self Confidence
- What is self confidence?
- Confidence Self-Assessment.
- Task confidence.
- How thoughts can effect confidence.
- Using Affirmations to change your reactions.
- Visualisation Training
- Important points to remember about visualisation.
- Benefits of using visualisation.
- Visualisation in training.
- Visualisation in competition.
- Motivation Training
- Maintaining Motivation.
- Goal setting.
- Recalling successful performances.
- Visualisation for motivation.
- Visualisation in training and competition.
- Goal visualisation.
- How to use goal visualisation for motivation.
- Preparing for Competition
- Putting together a Pre-Competition Routine.
- Activities you need to go through before you compete.
- Mental rehearsal for competition preparation.
- Competition Cues and Routines.
It provides coaches and athletes with a mental skills program that is both time efficient and effective. Its simple, yet comprehensive.
Whether you compete at a State, National, or International level SASI’s SPORT PSYCH can help you realise your full potential.
If you are a coach, then follow the lead of State and National coaches by having each of your athletes complete the program.
Use SASI’s SPORT PSYCH to get that “Edge”. It may be the winning edge that you’ve been looking for!
