Mental Skills Training for Sport and Health
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Course overview
- Provider
- Futurelearn
- Course type
- Free trial availiable
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Course author
- Ben Marshall
Description
Learn how techniques from sport psychology can be used to enhance your own sports performance or that of your clients.
Learn sports psychology to improve physical performance in yourself or others
We all experience changing levels of motivation, self-confidence, and anxiety depending on the situation we’re in.
On this course, you’ll discover exercise and sports psychology and consider its relevance to contemporary issues in sport, health and fitness.
You’ll trace the relationship between the brain and the body in sport and exercise as you explore three mental skills training techniques and their application.
Using psychological knowledge, scientific research, and applied case study examples, you’ll learn how these psychological training techniques enhance athletic performance.
