Reducing the Pressure of an Important Event（面临重大赛事如何减压）

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This week’s Speedo Tip of the Week comes from sport psychologist Lenny Weirsma of California State University, Fullerton. Weirsma offers some advice on training your brain to perform well in important races, like when you’re going for an “A” time or JO cut.



本周speedo贴士由加州州立大学富尔顿分校的心理学家兰尼•威尔斯麻提供。威尔斯麻将告诉你怎么训练你的大脑使它在重大赛事中好好表现。







Weirsma’s Tip:
威尔斯麻的贴士：


Sometimes the harder we try, the harder it is to succeed. We put so much pressure on an important event, we get tight and anxious and end up swimming slow. Then on “less important” events, we don’t stress about them, and we end up swimming fast. You are probably much more relaxed for these races and allow your body to swim the way it was prepared to swim – loose and strong. So before every race, I’d recommend that you take some long, deep breaths behind the blocks, and do the same thing before important races as you do for the others. Visualize feeling smooth and strong in the water, and remind yourself that you are ready to perform.


有时候我们越努力越难成功。面对重大比赛，我们给自己很大压力，变得紧张而不能放松，结果游得很慢。而在一些“较不重要”的比赛上，我们不觉得有压力，结果就游得很快。可能是你在这些比赛中感觉比较轻松，使身体在游泳的时候能够进入你平时训练时的状态——放松而有力。因此，我建议你每次比赛前都在赛台后面先做几个深呼吸，面对重大比赛时不要紧张，就像你面对其他比赛一样就可以了。想象自己在水中流畅而强劲的样子，并提醒自己你已经准备好表现一下了。