High Performance and sports psychology in athletes

To achieve good results in sports performance, it is crucial to maximize all available resources I.e. physical, technical and mental. Only then they can pass the limits themselves, expand the capabilities and aspire to be on top of the discipline.

The aim is to forge elite athletes, using special processing techniques, evaluation, diagnosis, training, nutrition, rest, etc.

At high levels of competition differences, marks and performance psychology play a fundamental role and stand out as the key issue in preparing competitive athletes. However in many cases, it’s a shame that many athletes do not have adequate specialists in this field for mental psychological work.

Current high performance requirements demand another level of professionalism to be at the level of the best. Many strategies that work for acceptable performance do not work for high performance and can even be contradictory. Many mechanisms usually used to create confidence in athletes end up being negative. Improving mental performance is a process that requires time and patience. The process allows elaborating the concepts to change old assumptions and beliefs by more advanced and revolutionary premises.

To expect an instant result, is to not understand the workings of the mind in sport. Professional work with the athlete should consider the mental aspect at the beginning of the road. Many athletes seek help with the sports psychologist in a crisis of results; this shows the lack of importance of the mental aspect. The results of the sports psychologist's work can only be seen after several weeks of work.

The results are not direct but in less than a month, if the job is well done  it can reap the first results. The principles of sport psychology are difficult to implement, but the extent to which you can improve the athlete, the higher level of development.

Each coach must have knowledge of sports psychology to generate their own thoughts and apply them with his originality and personal style to his athletes. Many coaches and athletes are successful but that does not necessarily mean they are  clear how they reached this success. Looking at the World Athletics Championships in China recently, many athletes arrived with a good personal record and were favorites for the tournament , but many of them never reached the final. This explains how essential   is psychological work with the athlete. If an athlete is well prepared physically, and has had good results throughout the season, but at the time of the great competition does not get the expected results, obviously there is a lack of mental preparation along the way to competition. It should be noted that many athletes do not believe in sports psychology and believe that with hard training can create a strong mentality. They forget that if the brain is not sufficiently prepared for action, his body never receives the message expected to achieve great results.