Performance Avoidance Within The 2x2 Model

Common factors that can contribute to performance anxiety include; fear of performance failure, negative social evaluation and/or physical harm, as well as disruption of a well learned routine (Cox, p.201, 2007). The effects of these factors can be further heightened in correlation with importance of an event, or the level of competition. These fears and feelings of anxiety may affect the athlete’s perception of their abilities and hinder their self-confidence, which can be detrimental to their performance. Patterns of perfectionism can also lead to sport-related anxiety, mainly involving setting exceptionally high performance standards of oneself (Cox, p.202, 2007). Setting high standards can often be beneficial to a performance, but athletes that succumb to unrealistic thoughts, that nothing but a perfect/ideal performance is good enough, are more likely to experience negative emotions and heightened levels of anxiety due to the discrepancy between ideal and current self/situation (Koivula, Hassmén, Fallby, 2001).

I could really connect with this because you can’t always be focused on the outcome of the game or match. Instead, you should focus on the process, or the “journey” that it takes to get to that point, and you should enjoy it and give it everything you have. As the book states it, during the journey “the true joy and challenge lies in pursuing ongoing personal growth, loving the pursuit, and living the various textures of your life.” So what can we take from this quote? What I took from it was that the real enjoyment of the journey comes from seeing yourself improve and grow as an athlete and a person, and also to be balanced, and have fun in other areas of your life as well. I can relate to this because in the past I used to get so caught up in the potential outcome of the future, and my thoughts would become negative because I would worry so much. I would get so caught up that I would totally ignore just how much I had been improving over that period of time, which would kill my performance. But that’s why it’s the past, right? For the past 3 years I have been keeping a daily log of all my goals, outcome, performance, and process, and I’ve also been keeping a daily journal of what has been on my mind, and how my day went. It allows me to literally see how much I’ve grown as an

It is within human nature to be competitive. While it is one of the most basic and primal instincts that has ensured our survival for centuries, today has become more for personal achievement. In movies, shows and on the internet we are constantly exposed to people competing for various reason. Athletes compete for the gold medal, game show contestants for money prizes and characters in movies for the object of their affections. When we best the challenges we decide to face, we often receive an overwhelming feeling of success along with the prize and, in turn, our confidence is boosted drastically. We are encourage to become the best versions of ourselves. However, when our attempts end in failure, we feel disappointed in ourselves and are discouraged from pushing ourselves again. In modern times, individuals often lack the motivation to challenge themselves because they fear their odds of failure. They would rather remain apathetic than even attempt to push themselves. It is essential that we have the dedication, fortitude and courage to regain the confidence to at least attempt a challenge or alter it to make it more beneficial to ourselves.

Ideally, the celebrations of hard fought victories will outnumber the agonizing losses in large quantities. However, the lessons learned from devastating defeats are often the most important tool in the quest for success. As Bobby Jones suggested, losses, by their very nature, offer the most compelling evidence that modifications and improvements are warranted. In other words, a loss encourages the athlete to channel the disappointment into a positive progression of steps, thus instigating a more favorable outcome in the future. The fact is that in both life and sports, defeat is inevitable, and the skill to use the lessons learned in a loss to initiate the groundwork for future success is a winning

Athletes are so much more than just big men with the natural ability to play a game. An athlete is a hero, a role model, and someone young boys and girls grow up aspiring to be. Athletes give hope to so many children that if they work hard their dreams can also come true. However, more recently athletes have been sending the wrong message to our youth, and future generations of professional athletes. We are finding out more often than in past years now that our hometown heroes are actually staring us in the wrong direction. Lance Armstrong, a

In Damon Burton’s article, “Winning Isn’t Everything: Examining the Impact of Performance Goals on Collegiate Swimmers’ Cognitions and Performance,” (1989) he assesses the effectiveness of a goal setting training (GST) program and the impact it has on collegiate swimmers’ perceived ability, performance, and competitive thoughts, such as anxiety and confidence. In this study, males and females on the varsity swim teams of a Big 10 university either participated in a 5-month long GST program or they did not participate in any program. The season-long training period was necessary to allow athletes the time to acclimate to the program, master goal setting skills, and develop a competitive success history (Burton 1989). In addition, the GST program trained both athletes and coaches in order to create an environment that fosters the development of specific, short-term, and individualized performance goals.

Robert Merton's principle of deviation is altogether spoken to through a champion some of the maximum hanging cyclists ever, Lance Armstrong. Lance Armstrong is seemingly a champion among distinct cyclists ever and maximum exceptional for prevailing the tour de France on seven consecutive events, at the same time as later having every one of his titles revoked underneath doping query. Armstrong was a professional contender from a to a tremendous degree energetic age; he turned into talented in diverse diversions, nevertheless he searched for after his master occupation in biking. Armstrong set apart with the Motorola biking bunch in the beginning but did not have much accomplishment in his underlying years. Armstrong became later resolved to have metastatic testicular tumor which moreover hindered his biking calling. He turned into given simplest a 40% risk to live, yet following a long time of chemotherapy and beneficial method, he magnificently survived. After his survival of the conceivably lethal anguish, he were given enormous confirmation as fans persevered commending

On the first hole at Kansas Golf Club I found myself pacing back and forth. Wiping the perspiration from my forehead, all sense of composure slowly surrendered to a not so ordinary nervousness. Don 't get me wrong, I had always been the “nervous” athlete, one that admired the mental prowess of professional athletes. Glorifying others’ attributes surely obstructed enhancement of my own. As the announcer recited my name to the small crowd I pushed my golf tee into the ground, what a magical feeling. My arms swung backward, this was it; I could not embarrass myself. This marked the beginning of my journey, elevating nervous feelings to performance threatening levels. Preventing the inevitable meltdown had been my worst enemy. I often questioned the meaning behind this inner turmoil, but never considered it a priority. I was on the brink of collapse. Was this new found anxiety a reflection of unconscious inclination? After years of subjective contemplation I arrived at one hypothesis: I lacked the experience and ability to outplay failure during adverse situations. Fixed between years of uncompromising commitment to golf and a college golf was an adverse situation. I had never been in the position to win on the last day, no experience of failure to guide me home. In the pursuit of self actualization one must succumb to adversity, experience failure, while maintaining unparalleled obstinacy

In spite of their mindset, Everyone has a goal when they are bestowed upon a life during birth, but they might have lost it due to “standing and staring” for too long. They may have been thinking about their goal and life too much and have come to the point that they have no meaning and that their everyday actions to get to their dream are just fruitless tasks. Therefore, many people do not realize that they have achieved their goal until they stumble across it. As Medical News Today covered in their research article, “Extreme Sports Not About Risk-Taking: Study”, they support their claim when Dr. Brymer said “ ‘They also said they felt a sense of relaxation and freedom, not in the socio-cultural sense but in the sense that they were so focused and aware, it was like clearing the mind in meditation’ ” (Medical News Today, 8). What Dr. Brymer talked about was that people doing extreme sports which gave them a sense that made them happiness, showing us that not all goals are noticeable, because you only express it in your mood without realizing it. This shows us that if you do not do anything to achieve your goal, you might not stumble along the way and find a shortcut to the goal or another goal that is hidden from

One of the first strategies that Craig espouses from his experience with brooks is that great teams have to think of themselves as underdogs. The underdog effect is one of he greatest motivators there is in sports because it tells the athlete that they are not good enough to beat the opponent. Brooks and the athletes were “experiencing an underdog status may nonetheless feel self-efficacy, which facilitates performance success. Psychological reactance (?) theory suggests that individuals want to make their own choices and that when they perceive that their freedom is threatened, they tend to react in ways that restores their freedom”(Davis, Burnette, Allison, Stone 334). The underdog status is the

There is a suggestion that if the athlete is in an environment where there is an emphasis on how to positively perform within a team and how the athletes have cooperated and worked together in the past and have achieved success, then the athlete is positively motivated. However if the athlete is in an environment where only outcome and past failures are focused upon and individual mistakes are emphasized then the impact on motivation is negative, as the focus for the athlete is fear of past mistakes which leads to less effort and is then attributed to lack of

Author David Conroy – research focuses on Motivation, his progressing research tries comprehending the elements that motivate peoples’ physical activity and inactive conduct, whether challenging orientation both in and out of sport. Conroy method emphasizes studying people in the context of their everyday lives on statistic factors. The Authors data is clinically utilized for surveying individual’s fear of failure. The discoveries of this review enhanced understanding of fear of failure, contributing both research and practice, but do not predict conduct outside of challenge

We all have a fear of failing, but everyone fails, even the best. Robert F. Kennedy once said, “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly”. We focus more on failure than success, questioning every unorthodox idea. We now see athletes holding back from their fullest potential because they are afraid to fail. No battle was ever won; no great success was ever achieved without failure. Michael Jordan missed more than 9,000 career shots. It may be one colossal failure or a series of events, but failure is a vital part of achieving success.

The coach tirelessly pursues personal education, formally and informally, both in the performance related sciences and in liberal arts. He sees the journey to coaching excellence as a never ending story; seen not only in terms of a chosen sport and coaching theory and practice, but in understanding how to successfully live a balanced and full life, while facing tougher and tougher challenges in the chosen field of endeavour.

Their have been many developments in sport and coaching science (CS) over the last few years. Davies et al (1965) have suggested that the developmetns made are, in the field of sports science, mainly related to the changes in technologies. Smith and Wesson (2006) have indicated that, though changes in coaching science are not as easy to pinpoint the cause, changes in practice are most likely to be as a result of changes in the approach of many coaches to develop a more athlete centred approach. It has also been suggested that the development of media technologies has led to changes in practice. In this essay, I will identify the issues which have led to changes in these sciences, and weather they have been good or bad. I will then go on to