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"Routines - Helping An Athlete Avoid Doing The Wrong Things"
By Sean McCann, PhD, Sport Psychologist
U.S. Olympic Committee Performances Services
Routines help reduce thinking and decision making. When an athlete is stressed, anxious, and concerned about outcomes (a typical state for many athletes at their biggest competitions), thinking often transforms to worry. In addition, decisions about simple things become overemphasized, and athletes will often freeze up, wasting valuable time as they agonize over which pair of shoes to put in their backpack. Athletes weighted down with worry or unable to make a decision are wasting energy. At big events, energy is a precious commodity. An effective routine eliminates decisions (because, if you always do it the same way, you don't have to decide), and keeps an
athlete too busy to think too much.
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