stress management

Question 1

stress

Answer 1

negtive reponse of the body to a threat causing anxiety

Question 2

eustress

Answer 2

psotive reponse of the body to a threat
when response to threat has been overcome and the feeling of success guves future confidence

Question 3

stress and stressors

Answer 3

stressors-casue of stress in sport

injury
playing an improtant match
playing against a really food componenet

Question 4

cognive stress

Answer 4

psychological e.g negative thoughts, worrying etc

Question 5

somatic stress

Answer 5

physicological e.g increase HR, increase muscle tension

Question 6

attentional narrowing

Answer 6

effect from loss of concetraion
meaning amount of info performer can take in is reduced
therefore some important info may be missed

Question 7

stress management techniques

Answer 7

thought stopping-when neagtive and irrational thoughts occur, perfomer uses a learned trigger to remove them

postive self talk-where perfromer replaces negative thoughts with positive ones

imagery-recreate a successful image of action from past perfomer when skill was performer successfully

visualisaiton-using mental image of skill

mental rehersal-process of going over movements of task in mind before action takes place

cue utlaition-the ability to process info is diractly linked to the level of arousal

Question 8

somantic stress managment techniques

Answer 8

biofeedback-technique uses a measuring advice to help the athlete recognise the phsyical changes that will happen when under stress

progressive muscle relaxation-where performer alternates between a state of tension in a gorup of muscles to state of relaxation in same muscles

centering-form of breathing control when at apporpirate tiems, the sports perfoemr can learn to relax the shoulders and chest and concetrate on slow movement of abdomical muscles when taking in deep controlled movements