Topic outline
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About this section:
Sport Psychology is a broad area of Sport Science and our A Level PE course. It covers a huge range of concepts and is very interesting.
The best thing about Sport Psychology is how we will learn about content that we can genuinely apply to our day to day lives as sportsmen/women.
e.g. How can I deal with nerves? How can I be a better captain? Why do I fear failure?
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About this podcast:
There are a huge range of podcasts available on the iOS/Google stores that are brilliant for extending our knowledge of sport and performance further. You will find links and suggestions within section 10 'Enrichment'
Don't Tell Me The Score is a podcast that features the presenter interviewing experts on a wide range of topics. Often, the topics covered are sport psychology based.
Now whilst the content that they discuss isnt exactly AQA A Level PE Exam specific they often discuss material that we can relate to and some portions are relevant but interesting nonetheless.
This is an episode with Dave Alred MBE. He is a performance coach who has worked with Jonny Wilkinson, Francesco Molinari (Golf) and many others. It is a fascinating interview with lots of interesting takeaway's:
- Pressure: coping with it
- Self esteem/self confidence
- Self-talk
- Motivation
- Posture - how having good posture can help confidence
- How to deal with failure? Should we be afraid of it?
Have a listen and see what you think. If you like it, click on the 'episodes' tab and you'll see a huge variety of discussions they've had with different athletes.
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