Mental Skills Manual For Swimming Coaches!! Chapter 2:- Mental Strategies

As chapter 1 mentioned about mental skills, these following four mental strategies will help as a supplement to maintain and improve mental skills of the athlete. Some athletes use these mental strategies by it self to improve their performance…

• IMAGERY
• POSITIVE SELF TALK
• GOAL SETTING
• RELAXATION

CHAPTER 2.1 — IMAGERY

“Don’t put a limit on everything, the more you dream, further you get” –Michael Phelps

Imagery is a set of skills that puts all your senses together to create or recreate an experience in your mind. This can help to improve an athlete’s concentration or evoke/reduce emotions.

Two types of imagery such as motivational and cognitive imagery could help the athletes perform better in swimming

Swimmer in general use images such as the smell of chlorine, ready at the start, the dive into the water and swimming with strength and confidence which would help to increase self awareness, confidence, emotional control, preparation and acquire new skills.

Imagery is quite hard to control because it is due to individual’s visualization of the environment. Therefore, negative…