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NEURO PRIMING VIDEO LINKS
The video series covers the content in the book: Neuro Priming for Peak for Performance. (Available through Amazon)
The video links below will introduce you to the process of customizing your athlete’s scripts for mental rehearsals. Top performers agree that visualization is essential for performing at their peak potential when they need it the most.
TO VIEW THE NEURO PRIMING VIDEO CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINKS:
PART 1: https://youtu.be/GgXrDwrIb84
PART 2: https://youtu.be/L0YjwnzCj_0
Neuro Priming- Designing and Recording Protocols- Part 4
The following post is an excerpt from Neuro Priming for Peak Performance NOW available!
Designing and Recording Protocols
Neuro Priming for Peak Performance is organized into five chapters. Each chapter is devoted to a distinct tennis skill set. Designing an athlete’s personalized audio recordings is best completed with a high EQ (Emotional Quota) coach or tennis mind. The following is a step by step guide for all five sections. (Sample solutions for all five sections provided in Sample Solutions section beginning on page 59.)
Step 1
With your coach, discuss each of the audio recording topics and complete your personalized script of solutions. These solutions should result from on-court training and most proficient patterns and tactics. The athlete should be able to perform the solutions routinely.
Step 2
Once solutions are identified, find a quiet space, eliminate all distractions, and get comfortable while you read your customized scripts into your cell phone’s digital recorder. Allow 5 seconds in-between tips to enable time for adequate mental rehearsal visualization.
Step 3
Begin your mental rehearsals in a calm mental state by breathing deeply, eliminating muscle tension and controlling your wandering mind. While visualizing your physical, mental and emotional skill sets, apply realistic imagery using slow motion and real-time visualization.
Key Times for Neuro Priming
- Nightly before falling asleep, especially before matches.
- Early morning, when you’re just waking up.
- Drive time/travel time.
- Before competitive matches.
- Between points & change-overs.
- After competition as a performance review.
Neuro Priming- Part 3
The following post is an excerpt from Neuro Priming for Peak Performance NOW available!
The Sports Science of Neuro Priming
Neuroscientists report that mental rehearsal activates a network of neural coded motor programs in the brain that when primed activate the athlete’s correct physiological responses. By creating customized audio recordings and then routinely listening to the recordings, the athlete strengthens the neural pathways required for competition.
Why Neuro Priming Works
Mental rehearsal is a form of preventative medicine. It identifies the causes of an athlete’s anxiety. Neuro priming pin-points the possible problems and pre-sets their solutions. Performing at peak performance level requires the athlete to be confident and able to adapt when things go astray. In competitive matches, the athlete who has their pre-set contingency plans has superior confidence in their problem-solving ability.
Neuro priming is one of an athlete’s greatest defenses against performance anxieties. It assists the athlete in trading in pessimism for optimism. (Note: Neuro priming may be a 3 -second between-point visualization routine or up to a 20-minute complete pre-competition review.)
ATP and WTA touring professionals are often quoted as saying the game is 90% mental and 10% physical. Neuro priming is a cutting-edge method to improve the mental and emotional components of a competitive athlete’s tennis game. As I stated at the beginning, an athlete’s routines and rituals ultimately define their success. I hope you find Neuro Priming for Peak Performance the key to maximizing your athlete’s potential.
Benefits of Neuro Priming- Part 2
The following post is an excerpt from Neuro Priming for Peak Performance NOW available!
The Benefits of Neuro Priming For Peak Performance Includes:
- Increased confidence
- Enhanced match awareness
- Quickened cognitive processing speed
- Improved the mind-body neuro connection
- Greater tactical awareness
- Stroke flaw awareness & solutions
- Conflict resolution
- Stress management
- Opponent awareness
- Score management
- Choking & panicking resolution
- Problem-solving skills
- Enhanced strategic responses
- Improved emotional responses
- Staying on script (patterns and plays)
- Decreased worry, stress and fear
- Advanced resiliency
- Increased motivation
- Less hesitation
- Increased developmental organization
- Upgraded focus ability
Enhanced concentration
What is Neuro Priming?
The following post is an excerpt from Neuro Priming for Peak Performance NOW available!
Neuro Priming For Peak Performance
In the medical field, heart surgeons report that if they practiced the way they did just five years ago, they would have been sued for malpractice. Yet, in the business of coaching tennis, teaching professionals all too often teach the same fundamental systems they were taught decades ago. Dedicating most tennis training to grooving forehands and backhands and neglecting training what’s between the ears. Success in the competitive game of tennis is dependent on emotional and mental warfare.
I’ve found that only training an athlete’s hardware (stroke fundamentals & athleticism) and ignoring their software (mental and emotional), often results in match-day disappointment due to underdeveloped competitive skills.
Researchers estimated that even with the best teachers, students typically walk away from their training sessions retaining approximately 20% of the coach’s advice. So to help reinforce lesson instruction, I recommend applying customized neuro priming.
Neuro priming involves mental imagery to review and rehearse solutions for competitive performance. This visualization process is an essential off-court form of training personalized to each athlete with advanced solutions designed for specific match play situations. Neuroscientists report that athletes who apply personalized mental rehearsals drastically improve performance during match play. I consider neuro priming not only fundamental for competitive athletes but often the missing link for athletes unable to compete under stress at their full potential.
“Competitive successes or failures aren’t the results of a singular performance, but the result of the athlete’s physical, mental and emotional routines and rituals.”
This guidebook provides a fresh, unique pathway to improving tennis skills with a customized script, in the athlete’s very own voice via a series of audio recordings on their phone. Neural priming is not meant to replace an athlete’s on-court tennis training. It is an essential enhancement of their mental, emotional and physical skills. Just as priming muscles before competition increases athleticism, neuro priming increases cognitive processing speed.
Podcast – How to Use Neuro Priming
Check out Frank’s talk radio podcast with Ian of
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TOPIC: How to use neuro priming?
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Gain the Competitive Edge
The following post is an excerpt from Neuro Priming for Peak Performance NOW available!
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Pre-Plan Solutions for Panicking
To gain the competitive edge under pressure, identify personal verbal and physical triggers for panicking and then practice the solutions both on-court and off-court (neuro priming.)
Energy Flow Management
- I’ll control the playing speed of the match.
- I’ll control the positive energy of the match.
- I’ll inflate my fight to deflate their will to battle.
Game Day/Pre-Match Preparation
- I will listen to my audio tapes to pre-set an excellent performance.
- I will morph into an athletic warrior.
- I will warm up my primary & secondary strokes.
- I will go for a short run right before the match.
- I will focus on performing excellently … not perfect.
- I will trust my training and my awesomeness.
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