Video transcript:
If you’re an athlete and you’ve never done mental training before, you might be wondering what it is and how it helps. To put it simply, it is the development and strengthening of mental tools and strategies that help you perform your best.
It truly is learning the skills of competing, and here are three ways in which it can help you become a better competitor. Number one is that it helps you allow your talent and skills take over as an athlete. And, this takes a lot of trust, but you’ll oftentimes hear somebody say, “Man if they could just get out of their own way or get out of their own head they’d be great.” Mental training helps you develop this trust in yourself and your abilities so that when game time rolls around you’re using this at the right time and for the right reasons and letting your talent and hard work show for itself.
Two is that it puts us in the best position for peak performance. And, what I mean when I say that is it gives us the highest odds of performing at our best. Performance outcomes are uncontrollable so wins, achievements, hits, goals, even the way you feel in a given day, uncontrollable. Mental training helps us dominate what is in our control so our mindset, our effort, our preparation and our focus, all so that we have the most influence over all of those things that we can’t control and ultimately our performance.
Three, it helps you leave no doubt. At the end of their careers most athletes just want to know that they did everything in their power to take their game as far as it can go and when you train your mental game you leave no doubt on the table that you put in the work to be the best competitor you could be.
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