Psychological preparation for enhancing the performance in sports and games (original) (raw)

2020, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH, PHYSICALEDUCATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCE IN SPORTS

ABSTRACT Athletes and coaches often neglect the psychological preparation which is very important for sports performance. Various studies have observed that mental readiness was felt to be the most significant statistical link with elite athletes. Athletes have frequently been quoted to state how the mental aspect is the supreme important measure of one’s performance. Arnold Palmer, a professional golfer, advocated that the game is 90% psychological. The entire time consumed by the golfer actually swinging and striking the ball throughout those 72 holes is roughly 7 min and 30 s, leaving 15 h, 52 min, and 30 s of “thinking time.” Within the parameters of psychological aspects of athletic performance, it is thought-provoking to note that more than 70%questions raised, debated, and pondered at the international conferences and seminars on sport psychology concerns to anxiety and aggression as performance to the genre of emotions. They ascend under varying sets of situations and form a sort of range but always moving upward. Their far-reaching consequences for the physical and mental health of the people in general and performing athletes, in particular, are an open secret. Stress is upshot from non-fulfillment of necessities; continued stress generates anxiety and anxiety results in tension. The lingering effect of tension is sensed, monitored, and assessed both physiologically and psychologically and is ultimately linked with psychosomatic disorders. Here, stress and anxiety are discussed. Keywords: Aggression, Psychological factors, Sports performance, Stress, Tension