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Summary of Psychological Factors Effects on Exercise

There are short and long-term effects from the psychological factors on training and performance. The intention is to develop the psychological skills so they achieve the optimum performance, giving benefit to the individual.

By using techniques such as performance profiling, we can assess why each one of these factors is important in our sport, how important it is and our current level of competence in using these factors to positively improve our performance.

Psychological techniques such as goal setting, visualization, and mental rehearsal, have shown to have both short and long term effects on sports training and performance.

For the Olympic Games, I walked around the stadium four months prior and I kept that picture in my mind every day. I ran it from every lane. I could close my eyes now and run the 400m race and I would feel how I would feel

- Roger Black, 400m Silver Medallist, 1996 Olympics.