Mental Strength Training

Description

OSA 5 Concentration exercise (2-3 weeks)
Programme 1: Meditation (1 week)
Programme 2: Triggering (1 week)

OSA 6 Increasing mental strength (2 weeks)
Programme 3: Disturbance exercise (1 week)
Programme 4: Asenneharjoitus (1 week)

OSA 7 Quality of Life Exercise
Programme 5: Quality of athletic performance (1 week)
Programme 6: Optimism (1.5 weeks)
Programme 7: The joy of sport and life (1.5 weeks)

During this section, you will have the opportunity to practise three different areas of concentration: maintaining concentration for a long period of time (guide 1 Meditation), being able to concentrate quickly (guide 2 Trigger Concentration) and switching off distractions (guide 3 Distraction Exercise).

Meditation (Guide 1)
It can be seen as a certain period of passive concentration on one and the same thing, e.g. a sound, an object or a bodily process. This exercise teaches you to concentrate and relax effectively.

Trigger key assignment (Guide 2)
This means that you ”connect” two things in your mind: the trigger you have chosen and the experience of complete concentration that you have had. Before you start the exercise, you must decide on the trigger (or triggers, if you want more than one). Distraction exercise, see below.

Increasing mental strength
As mental strength develops, the ability to ”switch off” distractions and stress factors grows. At the same time, you learn to control and eliminate the fear caused by problems or difficulties concerning the present and the future. As mental strength increases, feelings of worry and fear decrease. For this reason, problems can be turned into challenges and tasks to be solved. Mistakes become important learning experiences, and we learn to look forward to tough challenges, which in turn help us grow and become stronger.

Disturbance exercise (Guide 3)
It is a prerequisite for concentration exercises and an introduction to mental strength training. You will learn how to ”switch off” distractions and ”distance” emotional components in disruptive situations.

Asenneharjoituksen (Guide 4)
Together, we can change our automated interpretation mechanisms, which are the reason why two people can interpret the same situation in completely different ways. As we learn to interpret events more positively, the conditions for better performance and a better internal atmosphere also improve.

Quality of life training
Modern quality thinking increasingly emphasises the importance of personal quality. Quality in the way we think, react and behave. This also includes high-quality training in sports and high-quality prioritisation of life tasks. It should also include the quality of attitudes (optimism) and the quality of the internal atmosphere (joy, enjoyment, sense of balance).

Quality of athletic performance (Guideline 5)
This includes the quality of training (role models, etc.) and how we can find more qualitative perspectives in competitive situations. This also involves how we can become good role models and examples for younger followers.

Optimism (Dir. 6)
Recent studies have shown that this is one of the most important key factors in improving quality of life. People with a positive outlook on life perform better in sports, studies, work, etc. They also enjoy better health. They feel better.

The Joy of Sport and Life (Dir. 7)
Discusses the final success factor, the MTAT factor (self-image, target image, attitude and emotion), namely emotion or ”inner atmosphere”. Joy should not be passively awaited, but rather created. Don't wait to be happy about something (a good performance, a ”good” life), but first create inner happiness for yourself and then let it help you and influence better performances and a better life.