In practice settings, competitions, and games, athletes are often
required to perform an arsenal of motor tasks in dynamic and
challenged sporting environments, where they have to respond
without having enough time to prepare themselves for the act.
However, in many sport activities athletes also perform closed
self-paced motor tasks - tasks that take place in a relatively
stable and predictable environment, where there is adequate time to
prepare for their execution. Among these tasks are free-throw shots
in basketball, putting in golf, serving in tennis, and bowling. In
these tasks, performers are able to plan their actions in advance.
They can activate a plan, a strategy, a protocol, or a procedure -
what we term a ritual behavior. Effective rituals are usually
achieved with a high degree of consistency. That is, either
deliberately or subconsciously they become an integral part of the
act itself. The Psychology of Closed Self-Paced Motor Tasks in
Sports explores those plans, procedures, protocols, strategies, and
techniques that aim at facilitating the performance and learning of
closed self-paced motor tasks. Included in the
instructional-psychological routines discussed in this book are
pre-performance routines, focusing attention, motor imagery,
enhanced expectancies, autonomy support, gaze strategies,
self-talk, and periodization. The routines discussed in the book
are evidence-based. Based on updated reviews of laboratory and
field inquiries on the discussed instructional-psychological
routines, practical implications are given for those professionals
who teach closed self-paced motor tasks, including coaches,
instructors, and sport psychology consultants.
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