Locker Room Power: Building an Athlete's Mind by David Sammel

Author:David Sammel [Sammel, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780992826802
Google: Eb5krgEACAAJ
Amazon: 0992826802
Goodreads: 21947720
Publisher: Westbrook Publishing
Published: 2014-01-23T23:00:00+00:00

CREATING LOCKER ROOM POWER

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John Wooden Locker Room Power is an aura built on attitude so it is crucial to adopt the right thoughts and feelings from the start. You need to create a picture in your mind of how you will look, play and behave after you have achieved your goals. This is a clear blueprint to work towards. A finished picture of the product that is you, the champion. You are effectively building an advertising campaign of your abilities as they develop. Remember this campaign is built on substance, not spin. The work, the preparation, the commitment, the improvement and the attitude must reflect the message your advertisement conveys to the outside world.

“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – in the mind, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”

The above quote from Ali shows how well he understood the work ethic necessary to create confidence and belief to win.

“I told the world I was the greatest. I figured if I told them often enough eventually they would believe me.” This second quote from Ali shows how astute he was at the age of 20. He knew that he was good, and if he could demonstrate a high quality in the ring the seeds of doubt would have already been planted into the mind of his opponent. Effectively opponents would begin to believe he was great.

Building LRP is about putting a number of things into place in your mind so you have a mental plan of where you are heading. This sets the physical work in motion.

To help you develop your personal aura, you will need to:

■ Build your gameplan around the weapons that will hurt opponents. ■ Build the powerful weapons first. These are the base of your confidence. ■ Strengthen your weaknesses if they begin to undermine your ability to use your weapons effectively. Otherwise do not waste time trying to eliminate them.

■ Build a vision of the end result and slowly work to merge the picture of where you are now into this future representation of yourself. Many players hope to be successful but this hope is undermined by the bare fact that deep down they know they are not working hard enough. This causes them to hand over LRP to those players who are doing the work.

It is important to know what your current image is saying to the world at large. One of the best ways to do this is to watch a video recording of you walking onto court and playing a match. Is your demeanor showing someone confident and keen to play, or does it show someone negative, nervous and scared?

As well as managing your nerves, you will need to attend to and manage your locker room language. Never underestimate opponents or talk in a manner that can damage your reputation. Remember that locker

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