1. Peak Performance
Definition?
Synonyms?

2. Peak Performance
Peak performance occurs when capability (skills) and actuality (challenges of competition) meet.
Flow=body and mind work together to achieve success
PERFORMANCE = POTENTIAL – INTERFERENCE.

3. THE 5 P’S of PERFORMANCE
PRESENT
PROCESS
POSITIVE
PERSPECTIVE
PRACTICE

4. THE 5 P’S of PERFORMANCE 1. Be in the PRESENT Moment
Allow Yourself to Flush the Bad
One Play at a Time

5. THE 5 P’S of PERFORMANCE 2. Focus on the PROCESS
Control What You Can Control
If it Ain’t Broke… Break It
Find out why you’re doing well rather than become complacent with your success.
Make your strengths stronger.
Replay Your Success
Mimic your successful outings as often as possible

6. EXPENSIVE vs. INEXPENSIVE EXPERIENCE
What you learn as a player through your own actions - good or bad.
Inexpensive Experience
Learning from those who have gone before you.

7. THE 5 P’S of PERFORMANCE 3. Have a POSITIVE Mindset
Positive Thinking Does not Guarantee Success
Ask yourself: “What am I trying to do?”
Avoid comments like: “I don’t want this to happen”, “don’t hang the curve ball”, “If I miss this free throw _____.”
The Black Box – the box with the information that tells what happened during a good or bad outing
locate it and learn from it (Expensive Experience)

8. THE 5 P’S of PERFORMANCE 4. Keep it in PERSPECTIVE
If you think you can, you’ve got a shot.
Perspective is your reality.
Fake it until you make it.
Confidence
Avoid the losers limp. Act like you own the place.

9. THE 5 P’S of PERFORMANCE 5. Have Quality PRACTICE
Go on a mission. Have Intent. Have a Purpose.
Slow down your process
It’s not circuit training.

10. DAILY IMPLEMENTATION Practice is where the action is…
Practice what you’ll do in a game physically and mentally.
Do not wait until game time to work on the mental game.
The Hour Glass
Don’t Confuse Routine with Commitment
The quality of your practice is your responsibility.
Have a purpose or mission.
Have present moment focus.
Practice one play at a time
Make practice as game like as possible

11. A PLAYER’S MENTALITY
Player Tendencies – tendency for players to fall in one of these categories when things don’t go as planned:
Primal – throws/swings harder when adversity hits (Tries too hard. Presses)
Prayer – prays a lot, “I hope…”
Perfect – nibbles, “I just missed…”

12. Peak Performance Flow only occurs when you ALLOW it to occur.
All 3 aspects must be balanced and under control.
Balanced control can be understood and learned.
Proper preparation and appropriate interventions is the key to Peak Performance.
Peak Performance is a “mood”.
Cognitive
Environment
Physical

13. Peak Performance
Athletes that understand and control both the mental and environmental aspects of performance will experience consistency from performance to performance.
You can’t control what happens around you, but you can control how you choose to react.
You must be in control of yourself before you can control your performance.

14. Peak Performance
(Next Slide)
Assignment: On a 3x5 index card write down your own 3 descriptors that accurately captures your state of mind during a past peak performance experience.
One representing your cognitive state of mind, one representing your physical state and one your environment.
DUE TODAY!!

16. Peak Performance
Mental skills, like physical skills, require continual practice.
Will take a few weeks to notice results, but it will take a few months of practice before the skills become automatic.
There are 4 phases to learning mental training skills: Education; Acquisition, Practice, and Integration.

17. 1. Education
Education=Understanding the mental skills and their importance.
You are currently in this stage. You have taken this class to learn the necessary mental skills in making you a more consistent and successful athlete.

18. 2. Acquisition
Acquisition=Understanding yourself and how these skills and strategies can be applied to your performances.

19. 3. Practice
Practice=Applying (using) the skills and strategies you have learned; Monitoring and evaluating your performances and skills.

20. What tools in your toolbox are you going to use?
4. Integration
Integration=The skills and strategies you are practicing and using become automatic. You will have to make some adjustments and personalize the skills to work for you. Will also have to figure out which skills work for you.
When the time comes to perform, the time to prepare is over.
What tools in your toolbox are you going to use?

21. Assignment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ8h3SztT-o
Instructions: 1) Watch the first 37 minutes of the video. 2) Write down any information, facts, etc. that you find interesting. For example, If I were you I would write down the things that I could personally use to make myself a better athlete.

23. Tuesday Follow Up
Answer the following questions on your paper from the video
What do you believe are the 2 most important concepts from the video you can immediately apply to improve your performance?
What questions do you still have OR what don’t you understand from the video?