The Wingate 5 Step Approach in Sports

Sailing and Windsurfing

In sailing and windsurfing, competitive performance not only involves high endurance and speed, but it is also regulated by the opponents and meteorological conditions from the start and during the entire race or regatta. Often waiting for suitable weather, decision-making speed, and cognitive processes in critical situations

The five-stepmental preparation program involves a substantial number of sessions intended to allow mastery of the various techniques and achieve a practical payoff. To motivate athletes to adhere to this protocol, we followed the principles suggested by the cognitive behavior modification approach (Meichenbaum, 1977). According to this approach, t

Different sports require different skills:

Sports which require speed and power (such as sprinting,jumping, and weight-lifting), focusing and concentration are of primary importance.
Sports which require In aerobic sports (such as long-distance running and swimming), perception of rhythm, accuracy of movement, and pain tolerance are highly necessary

One underlying principle of the five-step mental preparation program presented in this chapter is to guide the athlete through situations with a gradual increase in difficulty or complexity, both across and within steps. With accumulating suc- cess in coping with increasingly problematic situations, the athlete’s self-confidence may increase based

In principle, the entire program can be tailored to a Competitive season of an inter- nationally active elite athlete such as a judoka, wrestler, fencer, swimmer, or wind- surfer, who may have had little previous experience with similar mental preparation programs. In the subsequent season, following a break from competition and training, the same

Combat Sports

Competitionsinelitecombatsportsrequirehighlevelsofattentionandconcentration, will power, and self-control. Combat situations in judo, taekwondo, boxing, fencing, and wrestling may change within extremely short periods of time (e.g., one-tenth of a second); accordingly, emotional states during combat matches are subject to extreme fluct