Effects of Pressure and Load on Performance - Foundational Concepts

Duration: ~30mins

As an emerging athlete transitioning into collegiate, professional pathways environments or other high performance sporting pathways.  

The PRESSURE TO PERFORM comes at a time of equally difficult adolescent development and trying to figure out who you are and what you want to do. 

Chasing that professional sporting career comes with a whole lot of STUFF you have to do and to be, and this is referred to as STRESS. 

• It typically coincides with finishing and/or leaving school
• For may involve moving away from home or even to a different country, away from friends and family.
• To a tough environment where you are dealing with constant cycles of selections and contracting prospects and cultural differences.
• And….The truth is you are probably not quite ready to be that independent and understandably still “just want to be teenager sometimes”

This course cover the following topics:

• What is stress?
• How stress accumulates
  
• How we appraise stress
• What do we do to manage stress
• Explains pressure versus performance in sport.

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