Volume : VI, Issue : XI, November - 2017

Peak Performance and Transformation of Mental Training Pattern in Sports Training

Bhisham Singh

Abstract :

 Peak performance is the foal for all athletic training and competitions. In sports psychology, traditional research defences peak performance by emphasizing optimal level of anxiety, stress, arousal or flow state. The core idea behind peak performance is that athlete would have perfect performance when they possess an optimal psychological state some examples of this concept include the ideal iceberg profile of mood (Morgan,1989) optimal level of Anxiety (Materns et al.,1990) individualized zone for optimal functioning (Hanin 1989) optimal combination of physical arousal and cognitive anxiety (Hardy& Parfitt, 1991) and flow state (Jakson, 1996). However , problems with these traditional mental training models are three-fold: (1) how to operationally find these subjective peak states in the athletes may not have had  the chance to experience such peak states in the previous competitions; (2) how to operationally activate peak states in the athletes at the time when they need them; and (3)as conditions change and adversities appear which can interfere with or destroy  peak states, how to continuously maintain the peak states during competitions. The traditional researches have these weaknesses? One of the reason is that the used inappropriate research methods. The traditional researches tended to be nomothetic in nature, emphasizing group experimental designs, and the use of standardized questionnaires and psychometrics. It is clear that the approach is not so suitable for elite sports and top athletes. Another reason is that the traditional research focused too much on human’s perfect rationality and optimal mechanism to solve the problem. The third reason is that these theoretical models strongly emphasized on the psychological trait/state rather than the current environmental factors and past learnt experience as the cause of sport performance.

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Bhisham Singh, Peak Performance and Transformation of Mental Training Pattern in Sports Training, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-6, ISSUE-11, NOVEMBER-2017

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