Improve Your Concentration! Sport Mental Skills

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With 11 years of experience working as a psychologist in professional football, I offer informal mentoring and support for sports psychologists interested in navigating and succeeding within pro football and other elite environments. Visit www.cartersportpsych.co.uk to learn more!
In this video we take a look at how to improve your concentration in sport. The ability to focus, concentrate well and avoid distractions when performing is essential in high performance sport, but we need to know how concentration works in order to improve our ability to concentrate in tough situations! Here we cover this mechanism and look at several techniques to help you start improving your concentration right now!
My Sport Mental Skills videos talk about quick and simple techniques to improve your sport performance! I'm a sports psychologist working with professional and international level clubs and performers - and I want to share some of my knowledge and advice with you guys! If you want me to do a video on a particular topic just drop a comment below!
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@ElliotWolflig 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you I’ll try this in my game tomorrow

@jackkauer7022 8 ай бұрын

Outstanding video, just what I need

@DanCarterSport 8 ай бұрын

Hey thanks, glad it helped 👍

@foxbow90 7 жыл бұрын

As an archer I have some mental problems. During practice everything is fine, however during competition I tend to freeze up a bit. Everything feels a bit weaker and more wobbly, resulting in lots of hesitation and doubt in making the shot. Eventually i just push trough, but my end results are always lower compared to training. I think it's a bit comparable to trigger freeze in other shooting sport. Any tips?

@DanCarterSport 7 жыл бұрын

+foxbow90 Sounds like it could be a bit of physical 'nerves' which then influence some doubts etc. Maybe try incorporating some ratio breathing (1:2 inhale:exhale durations) into your preshot routine to help reduce physical over-activation, and once that's 'set' try creating some physical fatigue right before shooting in training to replicate trying to shoot with that shakey/weaker feeling. These are just suggestions based on that short description, please do think about if they're going to be right for you before using them, and email me directly if you have any questions or concerns! Address in my channel info tab. Thanks!

@zedanyabants5584 7 жыл бұрын

really good video Dan... short, useful content good variety on the visuals, and applicable to normal life too not just sports ! well done 👏👏👏

@DanCarterSport 7 жыл бұрын

+ZedAnya Bants Thanks! Yep I agree, mental skills are definitely transferable / useful for so many situations in life! ☺️

@nothankyou5524 4 жыл бұрын

Definitely applies to intense or highly competitive work environments. And just a good habit to get into, overall. Best of luck to you.... Hope this finds you and finds you well.....

@raymondjatta6779 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@nothankyou5524 4 жыл бұрын

Are you really an old guy that used to coach my Rugby club at the U of F, back in the late, late 70's? I think i may be looking at some of your stuff as part of what i do to remind myself to focus in when I start my work, and also when I put myself in the position to having to hone and/or upgrade my skills. Best of luck to you..... Nicely done.... Thank you..... Have like and subscribed.....