How to Shrink or Stretch One's Mental Preparation Routine in Sport

One other point that's important to remember with this. That's under ideal conditions the way you would mentally prepare. Sometimes things happen and the bus broke down if you're in a school sport and you had trouble getting there and you have like ten minutes to get ready. Take that general, mental preparation routine you had and this is what I call a shrink routine, shrink it down to five or ten minutes. If you couldn't do all your stretches, which ones would you do?

What are the key mental things you would need to do it get ready. So go through and kind of sort that up. Then, sometimes we're in an arena like this and we have a power failure and all of a sudden we have a delay and I was at the perfect psychological state. So now I need to stretch it out some. How would I modify my routine to stretch out? So now we have a regular mental preparation routine, we have a shrink routine and a stretch routine.

The key with all those routines however is to adhere to them, get your routine and try to follow it each time. Now that routine will change somewhat overtime. You'll get better, you'll modify some things, but you should know your routine and you should follow it.


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