1. Visualization: Lifting weights for your mind
Chapter Evan Longoria

2. Visualization
Used to experience, or re-experience an event in your mind
Specific skills, achieving success, reliving a memory

3. Benefits to Visualization
Neural Programming
Focus
Learn complex Movements
Slow Motion
More Practice Time
Confidence

4. Neural Programming
Your mind cannot tell the difference between a real and imagined experience
Conditioning your brain

5. The Zone
Extreme mental focus helps your intensity, readiness, and performance
Learning complex movements gymnast videos

6. Slow motion Used for practicing complex skills
Not used for performance and situations

7. Increase your practice time
30 minutes at night
Over a year that adds up to 40 hours of extra practice
Golf Video

8. When should you visualize
Night time
Warm-up
Right after a successful performance
Right after a poor performance
Baseball video

9. How to make your imagery effective
Vividness
From black and white to color
Physical and emotion sensations - gymnasts
Baseball golf video

10. Controllability Keep your mind in control, keep it positive
1) Visualize the skill or routine up to the point where the mistake happens and then stop right before the mistake
2) Start over and repeat this segment of the skill, over and over
3) Then try to add the next piece

11. Other ways to be effective
Positive Attitude
Previous experience – hitting a gapper, crushing a drive, stroking the three ball, gliding in track
Do not force the imagery, relax and think about it
First person viewpoint, not third person

12. Some more ways to be effective
Practice imagining yourself in these situations
Start small, then start adding complex moves – Pitching video