Mental Skills Training for Sport and Health by Futurelearn

Learn how techniques from sport psychology can be used to enhance your own sports performance or that of your clients.

Explain three core psychological attributes (motivation, confidence, anxiety) that influence exercise participation and sport performance.
Describe three core Mental Skills Training techniques (imagery and action observation, self-talk, goal-setting) that are frequently used in sport and exercise psychology.
Explore the relationship between Mental Skills Training and exercise participation/sports performance through the demonstration of applied case studies and scientific research.
Discuss the application of Mental Skills Training techniques to different populations, including elite and recreational athletes, and clinical groups.

3 Topics

Mental practice including how the PETTLEP model can inform the delivery of motor imagery/action observation interventions.

Self-talk including the concepts of valence overtness motivational interpretation and function.

Goal setting including the different SMART principles and types of goal.

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