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I've had some experience with this
Posted by water_dog (more from water_dog) on Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:02:34
In Reply to: OT: Sports Psychology, gorper, Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:10:25
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I'm no doctor but I have read about stress, overtraining, etc. and lived it first hand. I'm a cyclist and have battled overtraining (chronic inability to recovery day to day/week to week)a few times, some of which was caused by stress in my life.
They don't call it stress for nothing. Although events in your personal or work life don't affect your physical performance directly, stress compounds other aspects that do.
You ask why it's harder to "keep your eye on the ball" with stress in your life. A big part of having the ability to "keep your eye on the ball" is focus. Focus isn't necessarily a physical element but it's a major part of performing well in a sport. Part of stress is having some pre-occupation in the back of your mind (otherwise it wouldn't be stressful). With that, it takes away your full focus which affects your performance. From there, a lack of focus can affect you mentally -- you loose confidence in yourself and your abilities and might hold back if you worry you may not be able to push the limits. Compound this with the pre-occupation of your problem affecting your sleep. Now you start to feel physical fatigue if this continues. Without proper rest, you can't recover day to day from hard workouts or performances both mentally and physically.
I hope this isn't too basic and helps answer your question. Since stress is very intangible, I think it's often overlooked as a factor for poor performance, but it affects us more than we want to think.
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