Sports Psychology. Basic moments

Psychology of sport in the lives of the athlete plays an important role, it  applies to absolutely all kinds of sports, especially contact. Many athletes  lose contact martial arts fights before they start, because opponents simply  "break" them psychologically. This is why, by the way, for example in boxing,  opponents before the fight look into each other's eyes.

Fear and excitement about something that does not "cure" huge muscles or  technique was in some kind of sport, the desire to win and to achieve great  results, that's something that does not come just like that, aggressive or calm,  it's all psychology of sport and its components. In this article we will look at  the psychology of bodybuilding and martial arts.

So, it is important to understand that a good psychological preparation of  the athlete is already 75% of winning, and if his physical preparation is just  as good, you can be sure, this athlete will win 99% of the cases. In this case  we are talking about the athletes of combat sports.

Psychology of martial arts

Here is an example: a good, athletic athlete enters the ring against almost  his equal in physical indicators opponent. However, his opponent entered the  ring in a position overclocked psyche, he is not afraid of fracture, he was not  afraid of pain, and therefore the pain threshold of his lowered, he is not  afraid to lose the ring, he was released only to win, and most importantly it is  a psychological condition It reflected in his eyes, and it shows his  opponent.

In psychology, there is such a thing as a psychological barrier, and if  this barrier is our weak athlete, he has already lost the battle for  knowledge.

Among the readers of this article probably had a lot to experience, when  even before the battle with the enemy, whether in the ring or on the street, you  feel a strange feeling in the stomach, anxiety, fear and a sense of what you  have lost.

In such a depressed person can not reach their full potential, its speed  will be reduced as well as the strength and agility, he is constrained and is  likely to be defeated. Now, many professional athletes devote a lot of time to  train his mind. However, it is much more difficult to train than the body.

Psychology of bodybuilding

In bodybuilding, it is not necessary to have a good psychological barrier,  because there do not beat and maim. But psychology is no less important in this  sport. Of course, first of all, it is the motivation.

Good motivation determines a person's desire to do it and his desire to  achieve goals. The motivation can serve a variety of factors is watching  motivational movies or short videos, which is now very much on the Internet,  it's impact on the surrounding human society, the desire to please the opposite  sex, etc.

The motivation may even be that the man ever humiliated because of his  physical disability, and this is still quite common, especially among teenagers.  In addition to the motivation of the people involved in the "iron sport" must be  appropriate psychological state. After all, our muscles work only 15% of their  capacity, and under stress, this figure increases significantly at the peak of  emotions he can growths even up to 100% is a state called passion.

As a consequence of this athlete in a heightened state of mental activity  can lift much more weight or do more reps. Techniques distillation psyche and  introduce yourself in such a state there is quite a lot, but to describe at  least one of them you want to select an entire article. What we will do soon.  And the purpose of this article is to introduce you to the concept of psychology  in sport and make it clear that even here everything is decided not only by the  size of your muscles.