visualization: lifting weights for your mind
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Visualization: Lifting weights for your mind. Chapter 17 - Evan Longoria. Visualization. Used to experience, or re-experience an event in your mind Specific skills, achieving success, reliving a memory. Benefits to Visualization. Neural Programming Focus Learn complex Movements - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Visualization• Used to experience, or re-experience an event in your
mind
• Specific skills, achieving success, reliving a memory
Benefits to Visualization• Neural Programming
• Focus
• Learn complex Movements
• Slow Motion
• More Practice Time
• Confidence
Neural Programming• Your mind cannot tell the difference between a real and
imagined experience
• Conditioning your brain
The Zone• Extreme mental focus helps your intensity, readiness, and
performance• Learning complex movements - gymnast videos
Increase your practice time• 30 minutes at night
• Over a year that adds up to 40 hours of extra practice
• Golf Video
When should you visualize • Night time
• Warm-up
• Right after a successful performance
• Right after a poor performance
• Baseball video
How to make your imagery effective •Vividness• From black and white to color
• Physical and emotion sensations - gymnasts
• Baseball golf video
Controllability• Keep your mind in control, keep it positive
• 1) Visualize the skill or routine up to the point where the mistake happens and then stop right before the mistake
• 2) Start over and repeat this segment of the skill, over and over
• 3) Then try to add the next piece
Other ways to be effective• Positive Attitude
• Previous experience – hitting a gapper, crushing a drive, stroking the three ball, gliding in track
• Do not force the imagery, relax and think about it
• First person viewpoint, not third person