USOC Mental Training Skill 2: Mental Imagery Exercise 2

USOC Mental Training Skill #2: Mental Imagery Exercise 2
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“Imaging Sport Skills”

As you redefine your ability to image with all of your senses, begin using imagery to see yourself performing a skill in your sport. Following these steps may make it easier.
1. Imagine that you are in the place in which you generally practice. Use your imaging skills to look around your practice environment.
- feel the surface under you feet;
- see what is generally around you: walls, scenery, equipment;
- imagine yourself wearing what you wear during practice.
What are some other things that you can incorporate into this image?
2. Incorporate some movement. ”Feel” yourself:
- Walking around;
- Doing some warm-up stretches.
What are some movements common in your sport?
3. Image yourself performing a skill in your sport. Feel free to use some actual movement and other senses if they make the imagery more vivid.
What are some skills utilized in your sport?
4. Work through the progression at your own pace. For example, if you can’t
imagine yourself performing sport skills immediately, keep working on your
practice situation and movement imagery until they are vivid and controllable
before trying the sport skill section again.
What was easy and what was hard to imagine? Did you have a hard time using one sense or another? Were you able to image some things and not others? Practice the images that were harder to create.
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USOC Mental Training Skill #2: Mental Imagery Exercise 2