Athletes and non-athletes alike enjoy the Olympics. Watching elite athletes perform to such high standards and compete for their personal best or to win a medal. Its amazing to watch them delighted to achieve their goals, swim and run with confidence, jump higher, row as a team, slalom canoe with bravery, climb with strength and determination.
If you watch carefully, you can also see some appear disappointed, experience nerves, struggle to perform under pressure. Most of them will have the mental skills to recover and set new goals.
Mental skills are essential for all levels of performance. They assist pre performance with goals, nerves, pressure, communication, motivation and focus. They help during performance with skill execution, keeping focus, muscle memory, relaxation, determination, emotional regulation and activation. Mental skills are also useful post-performance to review performance, set new goals and reactivate. There are many more ways that mental skills assist pre-performance, during performance and post-performance.
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