Yeung Shing Cheng
If you are serious in becoming an athlete I highly suggested that you continue reading. Besides simply playing a sport, athletes also have to worry about many other things. You will be surprised at how psychology is involved when it comes to being an athlete (depending on the sport you play). Athletes are people too! They deal emotional problem like other people, but such problems will revolve around their sport or activity.
Put yourself in the shoes of professional Rugby player. You are the scrum half, a very important position and you break your ankle. You understand that you are going to feel bad about being unable to play the game. You are going to miss time to practice, missing the chance to work at becoming a better scrub half. Such thoughts are common in the average athlete. The largest problem an athlete would face is replacement. If you were to be replaced because of an injury, you would probably feel depressed because all that hard work from the past season would be for nothing. That’s when the psychology comes in and keeps you from feeling down.
There are many other types of temporary problems that athletes deal with, such as insomnia, emotional outburst, withdrawal and anxiety. The list does go on but the point is that if you are going to become a serious athlete it is suggested that you should have your own Sports Psychologist. It doesn’t mean that you are going crazy; it just means that a psychologist will try to give you a better solution to dealing with your problems.
http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Document/imported/42036.pdf
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