Knes 350 Exam 2 Notes pressure o o mental toughness training learned comes from yourself no one actually forces pressure on you great athletes are those athletes that can concentrate on what they came to do and nothing else Brett pitcher for Maryland scared to walk across the stage for graduation on mound has no negative thoughts ways to be consistent o goal setting pursuing standards with a defined criteria purposeful goal setting with a specific direction has to be measured not I want to be better has to be like I want to get 3 home runs a game not outcome based positive upbeat also need practice goals so that you can concentrate better during your practice short term goals ex 3 weeks combine these goals with journaling what were my thoughts how did my performance change due to it by writing down your positive goals you establish a pattern of positive thoughts make sure to write down things clearly mood temperature also helps if on a team that they re the best on have the coach sit the player down and make the player write goals and make personal goals to help themselves improve even if the rest of the team sucks o deep breathing exercises deep breathes release tension optimal blood and oxygen flow to body simple but works visualization of mental practice o benefits top athletes the most because allows them to get through all the shit and makes them look at what they need to do such a wonderful tool for injured athletes combination of physical and mental training is the best way to practice if you can t do physical training then log the rehearsal practice and it really works use a trigger such as hitting their legs to make sure they don t go off and bring it to the sport to stay less angry and allowing you to focus something that keeps someone calm and unstressed something that relaxes you have something running through your head o sensory ways to relax seeing or visual auditory Music etc feeling kenistesis Massaging etc she had a cataract o got a new eye lens it got infected o o had to get surgery right away o o tied her hand and feet to the bed she began itching used mental techniques so as not to be itchy 5 things elite athletes have confidence o believe in themselves o overcome anything realistic goal setting o o positive self talk I can attitude o concentration focus consistency o o ability to block everything else out of your mind o ex baseball pitchers o high levels of performance from one game to another o draw on motor memory and such to come back from adversity o o Kickers in da zone Jokavitch bounces ball until completely in the zone control o o not letting anger get the best of you control of emotions cohesion o no I in team o recognize everyone on the teams true abilities stay in the present o never wonder what if because can t change anything everything you do in life counts o don t do stupid stuff positive attitude no stinkin thinking o thinking positive leads to positive performance we are what we repeatedly do o that becomes who we are pursue excellence not perfection o learn to forgive yourself be able to laugh at yourself o allows you to forgive yourself excellence is not an act but a way of life o YOLO practice excellence and it will become your way of life ergogenic aid o o nutrition stuff that helps you performance wise a good balanced diet and energy rich foods allow you to perform the best Boiled chicken pasta potatoes etc o physical and mechanical athletic trainers help you recover from cramps and such oxygen tanks on the sides of field physiological pharm logical drugs that help performance team mate is using a drug and being really consistently good leads to people trying drugs Olympics 3 types that compete in Olympics know everyone and a lot about everyone in their event can tell when some start taking drugs many chemists worked behind the iron curtain and then fled to china when it fell need to compete so need to take same kind of drugs small group who don t use drugs large group that use drugs and don t get caught can change one ingredient to make drugs not be on the banned substances list also mask drugs so they are not detected Olympic committee don t want to deal with the negative publicity so aren t as rigorous with drug testing as they should be those that use drugs and get caught very tiny amount of these every athlete needs a great coach a great chemist and a great lawyer ben Johnson broke 100 m time record got caught for using steroids and lost millions of dollars and drug use skyrocketed because people could see that they worked use other peoples urine and stick something up their urethra knock and pee can be tested at any time some of the best use massive amounts of drugs and proteins and amino acid powders stimulants and other things even high schoolers and middle schoolers are starting to care too much about their appearance NFL not for long broke the bone in his hands and can t turn a key or write or anything all for the game why athletes use drugs performance enhancement to cope with the monotony to cope with injury disease Clay Mathews pressure that athletes face from teammates financial pressure endorsement pressure traveling pressure recreational purposes Len bias examples of drugs alcohol so socially accepted most commonly used drug in the country ephedra Steve belcher died via complications while herb natural high stimulant more alert quicker recovery time taking ephedra found in drugs used for asthma erythropoietin blood doping a hormone can be injected into the blood stream to allow for more oxygen to be present saving blood or rbcs and then injecting back in to help the athlete can kill you because of hypertension and the consistency of the blood you are injecting is really thick because has only rbcs in it 2 cyclists died as a result of the blood doping makes your heart race faster and so lose stimulants amphetamines weight creatine more alert body tells you your tired but creatine gives you the energy to keep going took her daughter out of camp because she was taking creatine lost 15 lbs immediately had a great season and got a husband all medication can give you side effects hgh human growth hormone used to treat children who are suffering from dwarfish can give about 4 6 inches of growth to a child when the child is about 2 4 years of age ethics of doctors giving the hormone which has a limited supply to athletes one of the most widely used illegal drugs on the market because is really hard to detect side effects