Adapting and implementing changeAdaptations for mental factors
After recording and monitoring your performance, you should be able to adapt development sessions and reset performance goals to allow for future progression.
If you are using visualisationIn Higher PE, this technique involves mentally picturing yourself being successful in a high pressure moment over and over again. as an approach to help control your anxieties, you could make some of the following changes to your development plan:
Change location
If you monitor progress and find that you have mastered this approach at home, you can change the location to the training group.
This will help you gradually become more accustomed to doing this approach in front of others and prepare you for game like situations.
Change number of repetitions
If during monitoring you find that you are becoming calmer in five reps, you can decrease the reps to three.
This will help you become calmer quicker which will help in game like situations when time is limited.