Psychological skills are performance boosters in athletes

Players always do their workouts and harder training for better performance in the competitions. When they are physically fit they perform better but there is another aspect that is to be considered while pre-season for player's betterment which is the psychological aspect. Today the broad branch of sports psychology helps athletes to overcome game challenges easily through counseling. Sports scientists have worked on a lot of players for their psychological skills. They study the top players to know about their mental conditions, their motivation levels, and their confidence during the match. They find out the positive results of many psychological factors.

The psychological factors which help increase the player's performance are self-confidence, emotional control, motivation, commitment, and other mental relaxation techniques. 

Self-confidence is a very compulsory factor among players to get their higher levels. Confidence is believed to do any task perfectly. If athletes are confident about their game there is no force to let them down. When they are confident they will face every obstacle very easily. Confidence is very important for those players who have not attended their tannings regularly. If they know the skills to play then self-confidence will help them to perform better in the competition.  

Another very important psychological factor is emotional control. Many players can’t play when they are aggressive, they lose their temper. Good and bad moods affect the player's performance. If a player is in good mood he/she definitely will make a record in the games but when they are not in good mood they will not perform well in the competition. If players can control their emotions they can easily handle all the situations like game pressure. 

Concentration is another additional psychological factor that helps the athlete to boost up their performance in the competitions. Concentration is very important for athletes to present physically and mentally in the field. There are situations when players become mentally upset and will not concentrate on their game. This will ruin the game of the player during the tournament. There are many ways to completely concentrate on the game like deep breathing, self-talk, and imagery. This will help out top players to give their best in the game. 

In addition to this motivation is a very compulsory psychological factor in athletes to do their best. Both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation will help increase the performance of the player. If any of the players will feel down during the game only self-motivation and motivation by the team players will help them to get out from that down level. Motivation is the magical force to create the magics when players are not feeling excited about the play. If a player is motivated he/she will easily achieve their goals they will not concentrate on the spectators and other driving forces to divert their concentration from the game. 

The mental issues are very harmful to athletes during the game. So there are many techniques to relax the mind of athletes. The very interesting technique which helps in increasing the player's performance is visualization, visualization is to make your videography in your mind to help yourself in playing great shots. Players used to have mental rehearsals about their game to get successful results. The anxious players are always using this trick to be normal for play. If an athlete thinks he has not practiced the game, at that time only visualization will help to improve their performance by mental rehearsals. So mental strategies are very important for best performances. Self-talk is a great strategy to increase the player's performance. Whenever the player starts to feel mental fatigue at that time positive self-talk will help the athletes to overcome the challenges. Whenever the player feels negative thoughts about his/her performance the self-talk will help them to get relief from the negative thoughts. So self-talk and visualization are the techniques to relax the mind. 

Many aspects can directly damage the performance of athletes when not mange before the competition. Anxiety is the biggest aspect that is not easy to control but players should reduce their anxiety to control their negative behaviors during games. Many players lose their temper and referees used to suspend them from the game. 

If players will lose their self-confidence they lose their game as well. If an athlete is not confident about his game then that negative energy will never let him back in the tournament. This is a very compulsory factor to be managed before the game to get positive results in any competitive event. 

This is a very common thing that the factors which will boost up the performance should be managed before the competition otherwise these all factors will return the positive energy to the negative one. So we can say that the aggression of sports persons who don’t play best when they are aggressive should manage their aggression to give their best performance in the game. Many players don’t play better when they are very aggressive so the players should manage their aggression to get good results. 

Many players are mentally depressed, which will result in negative results in competitions. They should release their mental depression before the game to play perfectly. Depression is a very dangerous condition for athletes, there are examples of many athletes who are mentally depressed, and whenever they play in the field they get comments from the opposition they start to yell and shout in the field. Due to this behavior, there are many chances of suspension of the players from the team for many years even. 

The next aspect is the negativity among players, many athletes are always negative in all aspects. They always think negatively this negativity will never let the teams win any competition. So before the competition, the sports psychologists should work on the management of negativity. The negative energy is very dangerous for the player's performance, it will diminish all the good skills of top athletes. So it's the professional staff must use different strategies to overcome the problems caused by the negativity.