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Week Two: Our Control of Energy

As our Psychological Skills Training journey continues in week two, we look at how

performers cope under pressure, including, strategies to help release and control tension, and

help individuals to overcome stress and anxiety. This includes, stress reduction techniques to

help overcome anxiety producing situations and/or events.

After completing all assigned readings:

Differentiate between the terms Stress, anxiety, and arousal. Describe how you could use

Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Systematic Desensitization to assist an individual’s

learning and performance. In your description, apply the terms detachment, learned

helplessness, Composure, and explain how these concepts are relevant to this discussion.

Answer:

I think a lot more adults deal with stress, anxiety, and arousal than we realize. Has there ever

been a time in your life where you have something coming up that you're anxious about? Or

something out of your control that really has you worried? Most of us have experienced some

form of this in our life. A lot of times these three things can be tied together as well, being so

stressed about something can cause you to have anxiety and be aroused. Stress can be defined

as something that is typically caused by an external trigger. This can cause a mental or

emotional strain on a person because of the circumstance they are facing. Anxiety is a state of

uncertainty/fear because of the anticipation of not knowing what could come of this situation.

It can be so intense that your normal psychological functions are disrupted. Arousal can be

defined as a feeling of excitement, fear, stress or anger that causes you to be more alert than

normal.

Progressive Muscles Relaxation is a technique that helps control stress and anxiety. This is

done by tensing up your muscle groups and then relaxing them over and over again. A lot of

athletes do this before a game or performance so that they can relax their muscle groups

before the competition and they are ready to play. Systematic desensitization can treat anxiety

and phobias by exposing one to an anxiety causing object, event, or place while they are doing

this they do something that relaxes them which in turn reduces the anxiety that they're

feeling.

Learned helplessness happens when a person encounters a certain stimuli which they can't

escape. When this happens one begins to detach themselves from situations because they feel

helpless and like there's no way out. Composure is defined as the feeling of being calm and in

control of oneself. All of these concepts are crucial when it comes to sports and exercise. It

takes a lot of composure during a basketball game to make a stressful shot to win the game. If

a player hasn't been successful doing this in the past they may feel detached from the rest of

the team because they've learned that they can't come through when it's a stressful situation.

We all get into our own heads from time to time and think that we can't do something, but that

is definitely not the case. It's important to try and stay composed while keeping your stress

and anxiety lower during games and competitions so that you can perform to the best of your

abilities.

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Week Two: Our Control of Energy As our Psychological Skills Training journey continues in week two, we look at how performers cope under pressure, including, strategies to help release and control tension, and help individuals to overcome stress and anxiety. This includes, stress reduction techniques to help overcome anxiety producing situations and/or events. After completing all assigned readings: Differentiate between the terms Stress, anxiety, and arousal. Describe how you could use Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Systematic Desensitization to assist an individual’s learning and perfor ...
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