The mind Game

Question 1

Psychological Readiness

Answer 1

Positive beliefs—programming your mind to expect success.

Mental preparation—focusing your mind on the challenge ahead.

Mental toughness—overcoming fear, pressure and adversity.

Question 2

Positive belief

Answer 2

On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister broke the world record for the mile by nearly two seconds, becoming the first man to run the distance in under four minutes. The previous world record had lasted for nine years. Within 46 days, Australian Jim Landry broke Bannister’s record by a further 1.5 seconds, giving mind a new target,
-They are the prime filters that cover what we pay attention to and deem important. They guide our behavior and are for the most part self-reinforcing. Ever tried to challenge someone else’s beliefs? It is not fun.
-If I believe completing Fran or Murph as RX’d is going to kick my butt in a most unpleasant way, I create an expectation of a miserable experience and start to live it even before I have started. The toll can be felt both emotionally (dread, worry, stress) and physically (butterflies, sickness, hyper-awareness of aches and pains).

Question 3

Dealing With Performance-Limiting Beliefs, Much of the really important work on dealing with negative beliefs comes from the field of

Answer 3

cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), an approach to addressing emotional and behavioral issues by focusing on the way people think.
-• All-or-nothing thinking: black-or-white thinking with no shades of grey. For example, a single mistake makes you a complete failure.
• Generalizing: words like “always,” “never” and “can’t.” For example, “I can’t resist eating bread.”
• Selective focus: picking out a single, unpleasant detail and using it to color your feelings about the whole. For example, “My hands hurt when doing pull-ups. I hate pull-ups.”
• Jumping to conclusions: anticipating the worst outcome and convincing yourself that what you predict is a fact. For example, “That last lift was hard. I’m not strong enough to deadlift my body weight.”
• Selective memory: exaggerating the importance of insignificant events (a missed snatch) and shrinking achievements (first kipping pull-up).

Question 4

Steps

Answer 4

1) think about situation u struggle with ,
- write down th self talk
- Recognise the patterns , all or nothing, always, never can’t , single event to summarise the. whole
- selective memory , exaggerating
4)make it more positive for third person perspective
- can’t to can

Question 5

Mental preparation

Answer 5

• fixed routine, focus on job at hand
• id the mood, angry sad , focused, relaxed,
• last time u felt like that re live it
• physical cues
• focus on task at hand
• rehearse success in the mind
• think about the technique for this

Question 6

Mental toughness

Answer 6

Dissociation, association and self-talk are three strategies for building mental toughness.

Question 7

Dissociation technique

Answer 7

• music, break down movements into short , focus on task and break it down.

Question 8

Association technique

Answer 8

For example, you can choose to focus on breathing rhythm, fatigue in the muscles, recovery speed., ow you to discern whether or not your abs were locked out during a press. In a met-con workout, the associative process has you listening to heart rate, breathing and lactic-acid build-up to identify the “again, faster” moments.

Question 9

Self-Talk

Answer 9

• Keeping up a running commentary of positive self-chatter will greatly enhance your capacity to go faster for longer.