Breakthrough to Advance Performance: Building Confidence Everyday
Gain confidence. Gain time. Gain advantage.
2007
Minutes
Instructional
Available on DVD
From The Center for Advanced Performance with Executive Director Bill Adams, this is one of the few productions that addresses the psychological needs of the athlete. Adams, a sub 2:49 marathoner, is intimately familiar with the concepts of applied performance psychology and leads the viewer through both discussions and exercises to promote real world application of improved performance, both during athletic competition as well as other life applications such as personal relationships and work settings.
The DVD is broken into 17 chapters and is accompanied by a small workbook that features five practical exercises in three main concept areas: Selective Perception, Controlling Self-talk, and Affirmations. You will gain the insight needed to control your thought process to obtain a powerful, positive mind set which will help you perform at your very best. This mind set will allow you to look through obstacles and realize possibilities as you strive for personal excellence. This well crafted DVD uses many examples, quotes, interviews, and maintains a nice rhythm and flow to present the information. To best incorporate these practical methods, a periodic review of these concepts will allow you to refocus attention where it is needed most. With continual practice, your mind may become one of your biggest strengths during both training and racing experiences.
Quotes from Bill Adams:
"Confidence is the result of how you think, what you choose to focus on, and how you react to the events in your life." ~Chapter 4, "Misconceptions About Confidence", where it is described how confidence does not equate to arrogance.
"You can purposefully create an upward spiral, a powerful, positive, self-fullfilling prophecy, but you have to be disciplined and willing to practice these skills every day and make them an integrated habit." ~Chapter 6, "The Self-fulfilling Prophecy", where the relationship between thoughts, emotions, and performance are examined.
"Affirmations are essential in developing your own sense of self-efficacy. Affirmations are essential in getting people to believe in themselves. It’s what great performers in all fields use to prepare themselves to accomplish great things and you can do it too." ~Chapter 15, "Marathon Affirmations." Are you using each of the "5 P's" when stating your affirmations?
"If you really want to make a change for the better in your life make it a priority to practice these skills every day. Practice these skills until they become second nature and become your dominant way of thinking. Greatness is not due to innate talents, rather it is the result of deliberate practice and disciplined effort over a period of years that sets the person apart from all others in their field." ~Chapter 16, "Putting It All Together"
If you are want to be your best and unlock your fullest potential then this production is a must to add to your training routine. You may order this DVD through Amazon.com as well from its source, The Center for Advanced Performance, where a holiday sale runs through December 10th where you get a ten dollar discount on your order. You may also visit their site to view The Advanced Performance Model and see how building confidence is the first of five concepts to round out an entire package of scientifically based mental techniques. If mental strategies are one part of your training you have yet to fully recognize and practice, wait no longer, the first tool is now available.
