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Daily Post: Mental Rehearsal and Visualisation
Today’s post is a bit of a follow from yesterdays post and how seeing what you want can help achieve what you want..
The power of visualisation and mental rehearsal has been demonstrated in dozens of research studies.
If you take twenty athletes of equal ability and give ten mental training they will outperform the ten who received no mental training every time. This is what’s known as the ‘head edge’.
One interesting study involved college basketball players.
For three months, one group shot free throws for one hour each day.
Another group spent an hour each day thinking about shooting free throws.
The third group shot baskets thirty minutes a day and spent thirty minutes visualising the ball going through the hoop from the foul line.
Which group, at the end of the study, do you think improved its free-throw shooting the most?
The third group did! The imagery had as much impact on accuracy as shooting baskets.
In another case study, cited in Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology, a sports psychologist worked with the United States Olympic ski team.
He divided the team into two groups equally matched for ski-racing ability.
One group received imagery training; the other served as a control group. The coach quickly realized that the skiers practicing imagery were improving more rapidly than those in the control group.
He called off the experiment and insisted that all his skiers be given the opportunity to train using imagery.
So, while these are two different sports to golf, the principle here is what visualising and pre round rehearsal can do help you game… give it a try and see how it impacts your performance!
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