Personal Essay: Why Doing Best Is Playing Football

In other word, you need to practice and focus on not being afraid by conditioning your brain (53). Likewise, in Maya Angelou’s poem Life Doesn’t Frighten Me at All, a little girl says, “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me at All” in all the stanzas because she is convincing herself, again conditioning the brain, not to fear what most children her age fear. In essence, what we think is what we

As many people know, sports are dangerous. However, most coaches and spectators say things like, “tough it out” or “no pain no gain” to these players. But if a player plays with

In Five Keys to Better Hitting, five professional players discuss hitting techniques that they feel make the best hitters great. “Make your approach the same every time,” says Jen Kessy, a USA Beach Volleyball Olympian. “Other players won't be able to tell if you're shooting or hitting. It makes you more deceptive.” Jordan Larson, an outside hitter on the national US team, says the key to becoming a better attacker is your feet. Getting your feet to the ball is important. It allows you to hit the ball more consistently in the same place relative to your body. It will help you see the block better. Approach speed is very important for hitting. Taking slower, larger steps then accelerating to shorter, faster steps along with arms that are synchronized

Fear comes in all different forms for different people. Some people are more fearful than others and then there are those who seem to have no fear at all. However, those who seem to have no fear at all, but actually, truthfully, they have fear. They've just learned to push past their fear. And so can you.

So, how do we solve the fear problem? I first heard it from Stephen Covey, the writer about the habits of successful people: "Swallow a frog every morning. After that, everything else looks easy!"

At the competitive or elite level of sport, there is an emphasis on maintaining effortful commitment to goal-oriented tasks in order to attain the best outcome, while under demanding, stressful and hostile conditions (Birrer et al., 2012; Thienot et al., 2014). However, in certain cases, dysfunctional disruptive thinking or attempted self-control of internal processes can result in undesired outcomes of sport performance (Birrer et al., 2012; Thienot et al., 2014). By applying mindfulness, athletes are thought to accept the various disruptive stimuli encountered without elaboration during an athletic performance, allowing redirection of internal processes towards the goal-oriented tasks that will provide the desired outcome (Birrer et al., 2012; Thienot et al., 2014). Thus, it was hypothesized that sport and athletic performance would benefit due to the application of mindfulness-based interventions, by enabling athletes to focus on the present moment (Aherne & Moran,

In my own life right now I am facing the door that has a wild animal, and maybe the wildest animal I’ve ever encountered. I have decided that I’m going to go ahead and move forward and fight my fear. Fortunately for me, I’ve had the other five doors before. I understand the dynamic. The interesting thing is every fear is different. Every theory requires a different set of perseverance. So there’s no easy answer and there is no silver bullet. There is only the answer of going forward and moving to what you’re supposed to be, what you’re supposed to be

Visualizing. Self-Visualizing is very important before every game because it tells the mind what you want out of the game. For example, if you tell yourself to not mess up during the game, all you will be thinking about is failure instead of winning and success. (Mullins, 2008) Browne & Mahoney claim that mental training is the use of imagery to project future success. When athletes are negative, negative things are visualized and therefore occur. Mental perpetration works best when paired with practice, not on its own. An athlete still has to work at what they want to achieve, but visualizing can help heighten performance. Scott (1997) claims that by using imagery, which is a technique when athletes picture their goals which turns on neurons

I love the game of football and over the next few years, I hope to use academics and the gift of playing football to help further my education.

The thought alone is terrifying, but you are you more powerful than you know. Give yourself permission to live from a place of desire instead of fear. Continuing to say no to what you’re scared of will make you backslide or stagnate. If you do manage to inch forward with fear-based motivation, you’ll still be holding yourself back. You need the freedom to celebrate yourself, your failures, your victories, the boring & difficult & amazing parts. It’s all part of the journey.

The players are always looking for the best way of improving their next day performance. The issue of the psychological

Football season is upon us. The New England Patriots have the Lombardi Trophy, and every other team in the NFL wants it. Spoiler alert: the Patriots will return to the Super Bowl this season to retain what they believe is their’s to keep.

Head coach Jim McElwain enters his third season in Gainesville with high expectations after winning the SEC East division in his first two years.

Stay close to the table so you can get to the ball quick and hit it back towards your opponents. Play if opponent use short severs.

In all my years i've played football i've learned a lot, but one thing that sticks out the most is how football gives you the opportunity to make lifelong friends and teaches you a lot of important life lessons. ¨Toe the line¨, my football coach says at every practice and at every game. It helps prepare your mental mindset when you're playing, but it also helps you off the field when you're in school. Yes, football hurts, but after every hit, and every tackle, you get back up and smile because you remember why you play, because you love it. Football is fun, informational, and prepares you for life.