SPORT PSYCHOLOGY

In today's world, no one can deny the great influence that represent the sport in our society, especially now that they are conducting the London Olympic Games: the common people, dressed in uniforms sporting to walk the streets. It is said, living with sporty style. The overwhelming majority of people in the world, spends countless hours of his life witnessing sporting events on TV or going to the stadiums. Even an overwhelming majority of speakers or teachers, language use in their sports similes to illustrate their presentations. That is, neither more nor less than the roots of sport in modern society.

However, sport and the behavioral, have been increasingly uniting: is an emerging science that speaks of attention, fatigue, communication, learning, motivation, leadership, imagination, concentration, movement, personality development, performance , among other items, terms and concepts ... Yes, I'm talking about sports psychology.

This is a new science that is offering great support and assistance to athletes around the world who use it. It aims to study the behavior of athletes, whether professional or not. This is a practical psychology, designed to provide concrete solutions to the problems of human behavior in the field of actions that require sustained physical effort, whether or not high performance within a set of predetermined rules, called sport .

Through the practice of psychology applied, it is possible to observe the behavior of athletes in their usual environment, designing techniques and working models to optimize the results to be achieved by adapting to the development of these Characteristics scientifically, without entering into speculations own theoretical or hypothetical clinical psychology.

This new scientific discipline, focuses on facilitating learning and getting people to behave very differently to the training received during his life, that is, learn to control behavior, ignoring terms that might confuse or distract. This focuses more on the activity carried on the person itself: its body of knowledge, focuses on trying to get the most out of an athlete, dosed efforts, helping him to plan the most of all their physical and mental qualities. It offers tools that are reliable and valid for the best performance of his sport. To support a relationship cognocitiva, emotional and behavioral stand in a better sports performance, making the most out of the binomial body-mind without trying psychologizing sports. It focuses more on behavioral manifestations which are and constitute a significant part of the performance because the behavior is evident where the success or failure of expressive acts both learned and unlearned and all this forms the basis of the specific skills needed for each sport.

Sports psychology, focuses its efforts to coordinate the skills and capabilities to each other in each athlete. And an analysis of their actions, provides the necessary knowledge to enable and contribute to better learning, which will result in continued improvement of sporting activity without impairing the health of athletes, avoiding false potencializadoras shortcuts or toxic substances. Knowledge of psychological science, iran designed to examine a person when playing sports and not to the person making sport. The changes to be achieved are not the same athlete, but in the course of their sport. One of its main objectives is to achieve an improvement of athletic performance.

This new science has discovered, scientifically, that the mental-emotional interferes with athletic performance directly, it affects the expectations, the management of frustration and concentration process. It has been found by laboratory experiments and field, that yes the above factors affect the performance of athletes. He warns that feelings impact on both individual performance and the collective, as they constitute the basis of moods and mood swings what becomes a very important factor in the performance of athletes.

No more time to wait for magical results. This new scientific approach between psychology and sports, is the difference between victory and defeat in modern skills. In competitions so close, with athletes as complete, you can not grant benefits to the opponents, first of all, it seeks victory and fulfillment.

The practical application of psychological knowledge, without jargon orthodox or traditional, are of great penetration, have great substance and methods used and experiments that make up a sound body of levels found in many years of research. That kind of dynamic psychology and practice means a lot to people dedicated to the sport inviting both psychologists and coaches to stop being antagonistic and strangers and act as a team for the good of the achievements of its sportsmen and athletes.

Now, let me provide some knowledge of practical psychology that the Olympic sports of the day: There is a defensive mental mechanism called "regression under pressure," which states that when a subject (athlete), is live, you run the risk of returning to a previous level of skill and therefore fails ... Nothing to do with something magical in the universe or door or window in the sky that only opens for a few athletes that are filled with bright glory, as they comment on the London Olympic Games. First, it is necessary to locate, to a sports competition produces tension and excess adrenaline and that makes it very likely that by not correctly handle the hormonal release, may be possible to decline the good performance of the athlete.
Second, make it very clear, psychologically speaking, than a sporting event is a simile of militant conditions, including early warning and emergency and that this will lead to whole body placed in a state of similar conditions to respond appropriately and efficiently. That is, the athlete is prepared before the sporting event to make great efforts because their nervous sitema will be demanded and required at max: Increases heart rate, raises blood pressure, breathing quickens, sweat glands are activated, adrenaline comes into action through the adrenal glands. The autonomous system becomes dominant, let it go, it flows.
Third, the agency to so much tension and stress, can also give a counter-reaction and decrease the level of skill and efficiency is reduced and stunted ... In this phenomenon, which is known by the name of "regression under pressure: "... is a manifestation of a set of psychological factors affecting human behavior and performance.

What happened to the Mexican diver who was close to a medal?

That when physical factors have combined with psychologists, the diver felt cornered by the scores of other competitors and had to play it by raising the degree of difficulty of execution, entering a time of great stress and tension that far from catapult him into a great performance, he went back to an earlier point where their mistakes prevailed: that is, regression under pressure: "... was launched in doubt, do not put your feet well in the sound and practiced and since his departure, he was losing control of his body ... The Mexican taewandoin also very close to the medal, with the excess of the battle, which took longer than the account, which was already beaten and excess stress and tension, your body he responded shortly and mental activity almost anything. what led to a regression under pressure: the neglect in the final seconds of their competence to be defeated. Not so, the foot ball team already knew silver medal and dose your efforts, waited for time to find the routes and the ways of success and managed to rebuild their uncertain initial performance, reaching its goal to an efficient and capable team that succumbed to the greater presence and stronger physical and mental health of Mexicans who equiperos desmadejaron making them look like the novice, full of inaccuracy, ie, causing a "regression under pressure" ... What a coincidence, that the Mexican sports team, if you have sports psychology services to achieve better performance in their activities .. .

What should be done coaches and athletes to counteract this phenomenon?

The answer is to hire sports psychologists to facilitate their learning process. Then practice and practice again and again based on new models. Repetition and learning to master lead to future competitive situations, because it has been found in the psychology of sport equipment and most successful athletes are those who carry out their activities as they practice every day and that their competitions are like much to what has been done in practice, everything goes much like trained. There may be moments of regression, but are of much less severity and significance.

For Mexican soccer team will bowl may have opportunity to Olympic gold against Brazil, they suggest a package to play with a lot of camaraderie, leaving behind the individuals, taking into account that no one is more important than all that matters a lot together and put aside role because the team is eleven and all are much more important than how brilliant one this is ... (Applied Sports Psychology)