What Is Visualization Training

What is visualization training? Visualization training helps athletes to mentally prepare for competition. The process of visualization includes imagining success, focusing on goals, perfecting skills, and increasing one’s ability to focus on the task at hand.

Does visualization training work?

Research is finding that both physical and psychological reactions in certain situations can be improved with visualization. Such repeated imagery can build both experience and confidence in an athlete’s ability to perform certain skills under pressure, or in a variety of possible situations.

How do athletes practice visualization?

Use all your senses from a first-person perspective – Visualize your sports performance in detail. What would you see, hear, feel, smell and taste. Feel how your body would feel as you go through the motions of your performance. Try adding in some physical movements that coincide with the visualized images.