Game Day Focusing With all the additional distractions, your ability to focus on Game Day is essential. As you develop as an athlete, your Game Day events will get bigger and involve more pressure and distractions. Your ability to focus will become mandatory.
Learning to Focus?
You can develop your ability to focus by practicing basic focusing exercises and then moving on to advanced approaches. You can develop the discipline to choose to stay focused rather than allowing yourself to be distracted. You can learn this whether you have focusing issues due to attention disorders such as ADHD or not.
Focusing starts with mindfulness or awareness; it develops as you build it. We all focus on something every waking moment. You can focus on:
- Something specific or scan generally.
- Zoning in or zoning out.
- Your target or become distracted by:
- Outside bells, whistles, issues, or who’s watching you in the bleachers.
- Inner anxiety, fears, problems
- Physiological symptoms of stress
Focus Training
Yes, you can learn to focus in private sessions or by participating in a...