L23 - Mental Skill: Arousal Regulation

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  • MST Skill: Arousal Regulation
    • Connect to arousal, stress, anxiety notes 
    • MST to help athletes w/ performance, life skills & fun + enjoyment 
    • Arousal level to peak = skill 
    • Help get good at it by method 
    • 2 methods looking at: mental prep & relaxation
  • MST Skill: Arousal Regulation
    • How do you get good at skill, have drills, methods - a process at training to improve that skill 
    • Methods are a means to an end, a tool to improve skill
    • Method applies to technical & psych skills 
    • eg self-talk, mental prep, relaxation et
    • Choosing the right method to fit the skill is crucial 
    • The method is a tool, is only useful if use the right tool for the right job (eg for chopping firewood use axe not hammer)
    • Easy to fall into trap
    • Make it targeted, structured, organised
  • MST Methods for regulating arousal:
    • Mental Prep
    • Relaxation 
    • [also see notes on ‘Arousal, Stress & Anxiety’]
  • Pre-Game/Race/Event Mental Plan
    • Structure used to help develop mental warm up to go w/ physical warm up 
    • Once got physical warm up - what do you want to be thinking about it each part of the warm up 
    • So that by time warm up is done, are mentally & physically ready to perform 
    • Some structure, don’t leave to chance