How we can use self talk to increase performance

June 20, 2018

Transcribed from video:

– Now we can use this for four different things. To acquire a new skill, stay over the bar on that snatch, self-talk, yeah? You’re giving yourself an instruction. To break a bad habit. So if you’re always doing something. We talked about our visualisation before. If you’re always doing something wrong, your self-talk should be trying to direct you to instead of winging over a bar, straight arm pull on that bar muscle up. Trying to initiate an action, speed, explode, fast, drive, fire, volcano, trying to visualise, saying these words to yourself that are going to put you in this ideal performance state in the zone, in the flow, in the optimal level of arousal for the task at hand. And also in a sustaining effort. So in a 14 kilometre run, keep moving, keep moving, keep moving, you’ve got this, you’ve got this. Yep, keep stepping.

Dan Williams

Dan Williams

Founder/Director

Dan Williams is the Director of Range of Motion and leads a team of Exercise Physiologists, Sports Scientists, Physiotherapists and Coaches. He has a Bachelor of Science (Exercise and Health Science) and a Postgraduate Bachelor of Exercise Rehabilitation Science from The University of Western Australia, with minors in Biomechanics and Sport Psychology.

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