7 – What Should an Athlete Pay Attention To?

What should an athlete focus their attention on when performing
their sport? Should you pay attention to how your body is moving,
the crowd, your opponents, what you need to buy at the store
after the game, or something else?  Is it the same if you
just learning the sport?  In this episode I focus my
attention of focusing attention.


What Grinds My Gears: Does sports science get enough
respect?  Internal/external focus debate


 


Links to articles discussed:


When paying attention becomes counterproductive


Attending to the Execution of a Complex Sensorimotor Skill:
Expertise Differences, Choking, and Slumps


Attention and motor performance: Preferences for and advantages
of an external focus


Enhancing the learning of sport skills through external-focus
feedback


From attentional control to attentional spillover: A skill-level
investigation of attention, movement, and performance outcomes


Effects of focus of attention on baseball batting performance in
players of different skill level


Increasing the distance of an external focus of attention
enhances learning


Enhancing performance proficiency at the expert level:
Considering the role of ‘somaesthetic awareness’


Why did Tiger Woods shoot 82? A commentary on Toner and Moran
(2015)


 


More information


http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/


My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)


My ASU Web page


Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)


Twitter: @Shakeywaits


Email: robgray@asu.edu


 


Credits:


The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action 


The Cute Leepers – All this Attention is Killing Me


Conny Olivetti – Attention Span Zero


Fallen to Flux – Outside, Looking In


Reigning Sound - Straight Shooter


 


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