Sure, our everyday life is not about gold and win. But we can do a few tricks from top athletes: look at the inside – and you don’t have to be in terms of sport.
Professional athletes: Inside are under great pressure to perform. No wonder that not only the physical, but also mental strength is a crucial success factor. Expert: Inside, you can find out what tips from top sport you can use to improve your mental strength and resilience in everyday life.
1. Concentration exercises and mindfulness
Ross Flowers, sports psychologist, recommends simple tricks such as memory of app symbols on the cell phone to sharpen attention: to memorize ten seconds. This helps to focus on what you have set out, the magazine CNET quotes him.
And mindfulness is also useful: “Mindfulness meditation trains meta attention, close focus and attention to attention” explains Mark Aoyagi, professor of sports and performance psychology at the University of Denver. He advises in the same contribution: Start with short daily exercises, even if it is only a minute.
2. Instead of cooling: Determine fear productively
“Yes, there is afraid when there is a lot at stake. This feeling will not disappear if you condemn it and fight it, so you start to allow it,” said sports psychologist Sean McCann in the US edition of Men’s Health. Especially moments when performance is important are mostly chaotic. If you understand that, fear will be normalized, according to the advisor who works for the USASOPC (USOPC) in the USA.
And she can even be reinterpreted: According to a Harvard study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, athletes who were afraid of an important appearance brought better performances if they were positive as “excitement”.
In the same way, you can use other terms in everyday life: “intensive” and “electrifying”, explains Dr. Michael Gervais von Finding Mastery, a performance psychology institute for large sports teams, managers and Olympicics in Paris. So you take away the negative assessment and pressure. And that, according to the expert in Men’s Health, helps to get himself forward in order to master the upcoming challenge.
3. Insert tank breaks and regenerate
The mental coach Robert Andrews has worked with multiple Olympic champion Simone Biles in the past. In the same article, he emphasizes the importance of relaxation and activities that have a meaning for us, i.e. make joy or also make meaningful – whether photography, meet friends, watch nature or something else.
This is important to regenerate and stay fit mentally. The question “What do you do to fill up your tank?” Can not only be crucial among athletes: “You have to find an employment off the profession that the batteries charge again.”
4. Routines – even if they are annoying
Cody Commander is a sports psychologist and was mentally Health Officer for the US team at the 2021 Olympics. He relies on routine and perseverance: “Daily completion of unpopular tasks strengthens the discipline”, we get used to consistently doing necessary tasks.
5. Not concentrating on the goal, but the way there
Medal or progress in the job, the half marathon next year or another goal we set: it is not always a matter of achieving victory and being better than others.
Rather, the goal can also be a subjective one, according to Gerben Wiersma, national coach in gymnastics towards Deutschlandfunk: “For me it is definitely:” Citius, Altius, Fortius ” [dt.: schneller, höher, stärker]. This is also my motto that I always want to see how we can improve. It is important that you show the best version of yourself. “
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