Stress and Performance in Competition

Learn about stress and its impact on your body and performance, and identify strategies to manage your stress response.

By completing this education athletes can:

1. understand stress physiology
2. harness stress as a challenge rather than a threat
3. identify stress and use breathing skills regulate in training and competition

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Modules

Introduction to Stress and Performance

Autonomic Nervous System

Understand the autonmic nervous system which control our responses to stress. The autonomic nervous system switches between symathetic and parasympathetic functions.

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Stress Bingo

Identify common physical stress responses, then learn how these responses can be helpful to performance.

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Threat vs Challenge in Competition

Competition can be both a threating and challenging – learn about each state and how your body responds differently to each state.

Physiological Stress Profile Activity

Competition can be both a threating and challenging – learn about the physiological profile of the threat and challenge state

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Breathing for Performance

Learn how specific breathing techniques can improve your performance, and practice some breathing skills to identify which is best suited to you.