{"id":74414,"date":"2023-01-11T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runlovers.it\/2023\/the-visualization-technique-of-elite-athletes-that-you-can-use-too\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T11:45:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T10:45:55","slug":"the-visualization-technique-of-elite-athletes-that-you-can-use-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runlovers.it\/en\/2023\/the-visualization-technique-of-elite-athletes-that-you-can-use-too\/","title":{"rendered":"The visualization technique of elite athletes that you can use too"},"content":{"rendered":"

P<\/span>rofessional athletes, those ordinary people<\/em> who play a sport for a living, often seem to us to be aliens capable of superhuman feats and whom genetics and training have led to achievements beyond those that almost the entire remaining population will never achieve. While the possibility of achieving the same results for us amateurs is out of the question, it is also true that we can, however, continue to run (or play any other sport) by implementing training methods that make us more like professionals. There is, in particular, one technique that we can try to copy, that of the visualization of goals<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What visualizing goals means<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Simply put, one could say that visualizing goals is the focusing in our minds of the situation we would like to experience<\/em>, but that is a somewhat narrow and unclear definition. In fact, the process of focusing must be firmly implanted in our minds-somewhat like the implants in the dreams in Inception-and<\/em> must cover every single aspect of the situation we are going to experience.<\/p>\n

For a professional athlete, this means preparing in his\/her mind a map of everything that might happen on race day, starting with the most obvious thing: facing the race with the intention of doing the best possible result-perhaps winning-while ignoring or at least managing external factors as best as possible. It is like what we see when we watch the Berlin Marathon or the Olympic Games on television: strong athletes who start out looking only ahead of themselves and interacting as little as possible with the rest of the athletes, each focused and concentrated on their own goal.<\/p>\n

They each think about what they would like to happen <\/strong>(winning or making their own personal best) and try to avoid<\/strong> the thought of what they would not like<\/strong> (an injury or even just being outperformed by an opponent). In addition to the physical side, therefore, one must train on the mental side, which is probably the most difficult training.<\/p>\n

How to stay focused<\/strong><\/h3>\n