What is Sports Anxiety and How to Treat It?
Anxiety is more of a sense of dread and panic before a race. You don't feel physically or mentally prepared to take on the challenge and deal with the pressures of competitiveness. Because you are not psychologically strong, this will have a negative impact on your performance. Furthermore, the symptoms that develop as a result of your 'fight or flight' reaction kicking in, such as shallow breathing, nausea, and muscle tension, might have an impact on your performance. An mental and physical response to the stress of competing is sports performance anxiety. Anxiety about performance is similar to a fire alarm. They appear to exist outside of ourselves, but they are actually projections of what could've, should've, or would've happened to us when we were children. Associations between what is going on now and what we recall, wish could have happened, or dreaded happening long ago drive these recollections or fantasies into consciousness. Here's how to pro...