Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Pre-performance routines
- Define and contrast pre-performance routines
from rituals
- Routine
- "set pattern of physical
and/or mental
activities carried out
immediately prior to
performance with the
purpose of aiding
performance"
- generally in self paced
situations with time to
prepare and a stable
predictable environment
- Ritual
- "a behaviour which does
not have a clear technical
function in the execution
of skill, yet which is
believed to control luck
and other external
factors"
- may be created
through backward
chaining of random
events before
performance with a
successful outcome
- Describe the goals of a pre-performance routine
- Create an optimal internal
state for performance
- Optimal emotions,
confidence, focus and
control
- Explain why pre-performance
routines benefit the
performance of closed,
self-paced skills
- Why do they work?
- Attentional
control: divert
attention from
task irrelevant to
task relevant cues
- Warm up
decrement: creates
psychological and
physical readiness
that can be lost
during rest periods
- Automatic skill execution:
prevents performers from
conciously controlling
specific movements that
can inhibit smooth and
co-ordinated skills
- The absence of routines, lots of
preparation time and no routine
- Over thinking, distractions, loss
of confidence, overly elated
emotions
- Decreased probability and
consistency of good
performance
- Jackson & Baker (2001): case
study analysing Neil Jenkins'
pre-kick routine
- Most physical
aspects were
consistent
- Concentration time
increased with kick
difficulty
- Used psychological
skills such as
thought stopping,
cueing and imagery
- Lonsdale & Tam
(2007): analysed
televised game
footage from 2006
NBA playoffs
- Duration did
not effect
outcome
- If players stuck to
the behaviours of
their routine they
were more likely to
score
- Describe the characteristics of
an effective routine
- Self regulation of
thoughts and emotions
- Narrow, deep
and sustained
concentration
- Ideal self efficacy and
high but attainable
performance
expectancies
- A quiet mind
- Optimal visual orientation to the target
- Consistency in
generating a routine
- Automaticity in
activating those
processing that
enable one to
perform
effortlessly,
effectively and
successfully
- Design a pre-performance
routine for a self-paced
sport situation based on
the five step strategy
outlined by Singer (2000)
- Other types of routine
- Competition routines
- Pre (long &
short term
and
immediate)
- Between (rest,
regroup, refocus,
recharge)
- Post (cool down)
- Training routines
- Mental preperation
- Skill
development