7 – What Should an Athlete Pay Attention To?

What should an athlete focus their attention on when performing their sport? Should you pay attention to how your body is moving, the crowd, your opponents, what you need to buy at the store after the game, or something else?  Is it the same if you just learning the sport?  In this episode I focus my attention of focusing attention. What Grinds My Gears: Does sports science get enough respect?  Internal/external focus debate   Links to articles discussed: When paying attention becomes counterproductive Attending to the Execution of a Complex Sensorimotor Skill: Expertise Differences, Choking, and Slumps Attention and motor performance: Preferences for and advantages of an external focus Enhancing the learning of sport skills through external-focus feedback From attentional control to attentional spillover: A skill-level investigation of attention, movement, and performance outcomes Effects of focus of attention on baseball batting performance in players of different skill level Increasing the distance of an external focus of attention enhances learning Enhancing performance proficiency at the expert level: Considering the role of ‘somaesthetic awareness’ Why did Tiger Woods shoot 82? A commentary on Toner and Moran (2015)   More information http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Twitter: @Shakeywaits Email: [email protected]   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action  The Cute Leepers – All this Attention is Killing Me Conny Olivetti – Attention Span Zero Fallen to Flux – Outside, Looking In Reigning Sound - Straight Shooter    Via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com