L23 - Mental Skill: Arousal Regulation

• 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