Its been just over a month since I launched this site and I have to say that I am more than thankful for those of you who have taken the time to read the information I put out. While some of the information has been based on personal opinion, most of the information contained within this [...]
Part 1: Personality
Part 2: Motivation
Part 3: Anxiety and Arousal
Part 4: Stress and Coping
This is the final installment in my series of “Psychological Characteristics of the Elite Performer”. I hope you’ve enjoyed this oft-forgotten aspect of sports performance. While many of the concepts I’ve addressed may have seemed quite simple, its theoretical bases have been researched extensively and therefore [...]
Part 1: Personality
Part 2: Motivation
Part 3: Anxiety and Arousal
STRESS AND COPING
Like anxiety, stress is a commonly discussed topic in sport performance and takes both the internal and external environments into account. Stress can be defined as an experience produced through a person-situation relationship that is perceived as taxing or exceeding the athlete’s resources. Stressors, however, may be [...]
Part 1: Personality
Part 2: Motivation
Part 3: ANXIETY AND AROUSAL
Athletes with a high tendency to perceive competitive situations as threatening, likely experience greater levels of “moment dependent” anxiety during game situations. This type and level of anxiety may lead to a predisposition to detrimental performances and therefore may not be evident in elite athletes. You’ll likely [...]
Part 1: Personality
Part 2: Motivation
Motivational constructs must also be considered as one of the distinguishing psychological characteristics of elite athletes. Looking at motivation, it is evident that motivation is best understood by the interaction of the individual and his/her situational influences. There are many theories that attempt to explain motivation, however, certain factors remain consistent [...]
Although no exact definition of an “elite performer” exists, this next series of posts will attempt to determine the psychological characteristics that may lead to the classification of an athlete as being elite. This will be stepping out of my element somewhat, but its a topic that anyone working with athletes must be familiar with.
The [...]
Tendinitis? “That’s such an old term…no one uses that anymore!”
Tendinopathy? “Hmm…too vague. Get some diagnostic skills will ya?”
Tendinosis? “Now that’s more like it. Most tendon pathologies pass the inflammation stage and go directly to the degeneration stage…right?”
But do they?
Well maybe not! Franklyn-Miller et al recently published an editorial piece entitles “Fasciitis first before tendinopathy: does [...]
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