Year 10 HPE: Imagery

• Inspired by imagination

• Mental imagery in sport

  Mental imagery involves the athlete imagining themselves in an environment and performing a specific activity using their senses (sight, hearing, feeling and smell). The images should have the athlete performing successfully and feeling satisfied with their performance.

• Sports imagery training

  What is imagery? Why should you use it?

• Improve sports skills for kids

  Mental imagery is a useful mental game skill that can improve young athletes’ performance. Many athletes have experienced success using visualization daily in their training regimes.

• Guided imagery for stress management

• IMAGERY IN SPORT: ELITE ATHLETE EXAMPLES AND THE PETTLEP MODEL

• Visualisation and Imagery

  This can help anxiety

Mental Imagery can be used to:

• Familiarise the athlete with a competition site, a racecourse, a complex play pattern or routine etc.
• Motivate the athlete by recalling images of their goals for that session, or of success in a past competition or beating a competitor in a competition
• Perfect skills or skill sequences the athlete is learning or refining
• Reduce negative thoughts by focusing on positive outcomes
• Refocus the athlete when the need arises, e.g. if performance is feeling sluggish, the imagery of a previous best performance or previous best event focus can help get things back on track
• See success where the athlete sees themselves performing skills correctly and the desired outcomes
• Set the stage for a performance with a complete mental run-through of their performance's key elements to set the athlete's desired pre-competition feelings and focus.