Lucie Schnitzer
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Lucie Schnitzer
If you’re good at imagery, you need to image positive and negative imagery.
Hockey: Get the athlete to perform the night before. If working with golley, want to make sure they are sticking to routine and imagine making key moves
Swimming: Imagine the beginning the middle and the end.
How to start with imagery :
Warm up to it:
Imagine your alarm going off
What do your goggles feel like
What does the ice feel like smell like
More complex:
For swimming, waht does your start look like
What does your middle area look like
What do your flip turns look like
How do you want to end your race
Tennis racket grip with EMG:
Measure muscle tension when athlete is holding a tennis raquet and when their coach is holding tennis racket to change the grip
Want to use EMG to measure when they are doing a sports move right. If they are doing the sports move right, then we want to note down those EMG scores and when they are doing imagery they should be aiming for thos same scores.
When performing imagery, it’s important to measure multiple modalities. We want to make sure they are breathing at nice HRV, they dont have too much tension, are we leading up to their routines, where is their SC, we dont want them under or overaroused, when they do imagery we want skin conductance to remain constant.
Exercises to do to convince people that imagery works and there is a mind-body connection:
Heavy Book: People close the eyes and put both hands up. Imagine there is a super ehavy book i th left hand… heavy and weighing down, causing lots of pressure… etc. Generally the left hand is lower
Sunlight trick tape between the eyes : Help demonstrate when i
Why is it important:
To see success. If you see yourself winning, you can get there
To motivate. Get yourself through hard sets.
To learn perfect skills
To refocus.
After a bad shot. 25 seconds, want to imagine the shot I want to have done to make that correction.
Imagery for where the person will be competing in their sport. A swimmer should imagine
Why and how imagery works theories:
Symbolic learning theory encoded - this described a coding system that helpsn athletes understand their movements. Everytime we make a movement it gets encoded in the blueprint in our body
Psychoneuromuscular theory producing very small muscle contractions - took semg sensors and attached to them players who are