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Using Visualization Techniques for Peak Performance
Not able to get to the gym every day? Going on a short trip and afraid to less that edge? Want to enhance your performance even when you’re not working out? Guided imagery may just be the solution. Top tier athletes routinely use visualization or mental rehearsal techniques as part of training, and to improve their technique and performance.
The process is fairly simple- visualize or imagine the scene you intend. For example, a basketball player would mentally rehearse (15-20 time per day ) a play from the start of the taking the ball down the court, each player’s move, doing the assist to the shooter and running to the boards for a possible rebound. The player would, as he rehearsed the play, “step into the feeling” aspect of the moves to intensify the experience. In MMA, the fighter visualizes the use of the double leg takedown, starting with:
1) pull other person towards you or duck beneath his arms and dive towards his stomach and leg area;
2) grab both legs; step
3) pull legs towards you as you push his upper body to the ground with your shoulder, and;
4) once he lands on the ground, immediately move in for your next technique (e.g., pass his developing guard).
Mentally rehearse the entire sequence daily (10-15 times) or just one move of the sequence, and while rehearsing, attempt to feel every emotion required to intensify the experience (i.e., make it as real as possible). Research indicates that athletes can maintain up to 80% efficiency through rehearsal alone and can improve on a newly learned technique, whether in tennis, MMA, boxing, step aerobics or track and field.
Each rehearsal should include as much of the visual (images and pictures
as in a film), kinesthetic (what the body would feel or experience), and
auditory (the sound of the competitor’s body hitting the mat or
the ball whooshing through the net) sensations as possible. During visualization,
your mind and body can be trained as if developing “muscle memory,”
in a way that improves reaction time to uncertain situations while competing,
or under pressure. The more vivid the imagery, the greater the likelihood
of maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of not only training, but
also the actual competitive experience.
When micro-seconds count and can make the difference between a successful move in a timely manner or a move that can be timed off just enough to result in a loss, visual rehearsals can make the difference.