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Up your game with resources for student-athletes and parents to cultivate a high-performance mindset, fostering confidence, focus, and resilience for sport and for life. IMG Academy’s mental performance experts share their best tips, lessons, and experience to help you win your future.
In the high-stakes arena of sport, where split-second decisions can determine victory or defeat, focus reigns supreme. It's the mental muscle that keeps student-athletes sharp, alert, and fully engaged in competition.
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The amount of preparation student-athletes do before a competition is immense. Countless hours are spent practicing sport-specific skills, doing off-the-field drills to sharpen the body and mind, and improving sleep and nutrition habits in hopes of performing their best when it matters most.
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Maybe it’s a deep breath. Maybe it’s listening to that song that always gets you pumped up, or that song that puts you in a serene space. Maybe it’s wearing a certain hat before going onto the field (or, for that matter, a certain pair of underwear).
It’s a pregame routine, and chances are you have one, even if you don’t realize it.
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Training for a sport that demands a lot of focus requires a delicate balance between exertion and recovery. Research shows that downtime is crucial to bouncing back with renewed motivation and energy and avoiding pitfalls such as overtraining, burnout, and injury. But determining the frequency and duration of those breaks isn’t one-size-fits-all.
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Whatever you picture when you think of sports heckling, chances are you’re not envisioning the most likely source of it. Fans yelling rude things from the sideline? It’s not that. Rivals on opposing teams talking trash on the field? Not that, either.
That’s not to say those things don’t happen — they do, despite measures such as IMG Academy’s code of conduct and similar guidelines from sports associations.
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There’s powerful science behind the benefits of meditation. One study by Harvard University researchers found that just eight weeks of mindfulness meditation practice for an average of 27 minutes per day led to measurable changes in cognitive and emotional well-being. Although teachers and practitioners agree that anyone can benefit from meditation, it can have unique advantages for student-athletes.
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Legends such as Shohei Ohtani and LeBron James have credited healthy sleep habits for their performance, longevity, and health. In fact, the secret weapon for today’s elite athletes may be found on the pillow.
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Today, the question “Does it make the boat go faster?’ has become a virtual mantra in the world of sport.
But when the British rowing team began asking it in the runup to the 2000 Olympics, it was simply a focusing exercise, one designed to help the crew brush aside distractions and concentrate on what would help them win after disappointing finishes in Barcelona in 1992 and Atlanta in 1996.
Critics told them they were crazy, that they had no chance of winning.
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Athletes who have been there want to go back. Those who have never been dream of one day getting there. And those who are there right now don’t always know how they arrived.
Where’s there? Some people refer to it as “being in the zone.” It is an athlete’s nirvana, where the basket looks twice as big, the ball travels in slow motion, the crowd disappears, and a player’s focus is so intense that it has been compared to an out-of-body experience.
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The ability to stay focused — or to quickly refocus when you get distracted — is a crucial mental performance skill that all student-athletes need to master to be successful at their sport. At IMG Academy, one of the ways that young athletes learn to improve their ability to focus is by practicing a simple but powerful maxim: control the controllables.
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