Davis Rainey
11/16/10
Paul Bergin wrote an article about Andy Warhol, a leader in the visual art movement known as pop art, who also happens to be one of my favorite artists, called “Andy Warhol: The Artist as Machine”. In the article, Bergin, who has committed much of his time to studying Warhol and his works, seems almost more intrigued by Andy Warhol as a human being than by his works of art. He states how Warhol’s image is more important to him than his art, the image that is Andy Warhol. This emphasis on his stylistic view and lack of concern for peoples perspective of him plays a major role in Warhol’s work.
“Andy Warhol has managed to keep himself apart. A kind of enigma, a striking enigma, it is true, with his artificially grey hair, dark glasses, and leather clothing, but an enigma nonetheless.” Bergin explains how Andy Warhol offers his mask and his image to the public eye, but does not offer anything else. The author even explains how once Warhol was asked about his background and replied with “Why don’t you make it up?” This remark makes up Warhol’s character. This shows that Warhol would rather be known as an entity, something that appeared one day doing his work, then will one day vanish, rather than a human being. Warhol is a difficult creature to grasp.
After Bergin talks about Warhol’s unique being, he shows how his character is portrayed in his art. He states how “all of Warhol’s art takes shape and exists close to the unconscious. It is not conceived in a conscious mind; neither is it intellectually precise.” Warhol leaves his viewers with an image, nothing more. His work is free of personality and emotions, concentrating only on the emotions. This is where Bergin ties in the title of his article to the article itself. “It is art of the machine, not about it.”
Bergin then goes on to explain to the readers what the machine is. He says that the machine is a way of life to the artists represented by the field of twentieth-century visual artists and their experience. The thing about Warhol is that all of his art is striving to express the machine in terms of the machine itself. Bergin says that Warhol attempts this through two devices. The first is his reproduction of the subject. Warhol’s emphasis purely on the reproduction of the subject itself, and not of the conscious, is the act of a machine. Secondly, his use of mechanical aid in his sculptures and paintings, which are now considered his famous silkscreen method. There are many advantages to a silkscreen, the first is that it is much easier to reproduce an object on a silkscreen than to paint it free hand. Also, it makes it just as easy for one of Warhol’s assistants to develop an Andy Warhol just as easily as he can.
Bergin then explains Warhol’s four different stages of his career. The phase that Warhol is probably best known for is his “commercial product’ phase. His main interest in these works was food. Like his very popular Campbell’s Soup Cans. Warhol had the ability to be satisfied by hunger with food untouched by the human hand. Bergin calls it “machine food”. Warhol’s flower painting stage expresses the machine differently, calling upon the viewers to distinguish between his flowers and “real” flowers. His third stage of paintings are his death-image paintings, which Bergin finds the most interesting. In these are many of Warhol’s famous automobile accidents and suicides. These use black and white news photographs that Warhol would blow up on a silkscreen, making them a complete visual experience. Finally, Warhol’s portraits. His famous portraits include celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, Mao Zedong, and his most expensive piece that sold for $100 million, Elvis Presley.
Warhol’s work displaying other peoples public mask, best describes his own mask. His mask does not seem unlike the masks in the portraits when you consider the commercial aspect, it becomes one in the same. His character and his appearance are all a part of his public mask, and his portraits make it almost impossible to distinguish the man from the image. Bergin shows how Warhol’s character and his mask make up who he is as an artist. His mask is what drove him and inspired him to do the works that he did. It is hard to argue Bergin’s point, contemporary art has become an advancement in the world of art we would not have without the help from Warhol. Warhol is an inspiration to new artists and there is no better place to be an upcoming artist than in Chapel Hill. Many students have visited and are able to visit Ackland, where some of Warhol’s artwork is available. Warhol is a great artist, paving the way for new artists to follow their own path, not worried about what others think of their mask.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
The Potential of an Artist: Andy Warhol
Ashleigh Dorman
Andy Warhol has a unique image, which is seen through his abstract artwork. In “Andy Warhol: The Artist as Machine,” Paul Bergin emphasizes Warhol’s potential to be a talented, successful artist. Bergin thinks that all Warhol has to do is transform his potential into activation to make him an even more successful artist. He thinks that he should apply himself in this way not just every now and then but in every single artwork making each one memorable and irreplaceable, just like his own personal artistic image. Bergin says that Warhol’s art has some good aspects that will help him reach the status of being a brilliant artist but there are some features of his work holding him back from reaching his full potential.
According to Bergin, Andy Warhol has a gift of portraying his images in a way that catch the viewer’s attention and make them question the difference between the image Warhol has created and what the image looks like in real life. Warhol has a unique way of looking at things, such as a flower, and he recreates the image in his head then illustrates it on paper to share with the rest of the world. For example, in his artwork, Flowers, Warhol uses silk screenings on canvas to depict his vision of flowers of the twentieth century. Warhol also uses silk screenings to illustrate death-image scenes, like suicides and automobile accidents.
In his death-image paintings, Bergin describes Warhol to be the most harmonized with himself and his painting. He says that Warhol truly conveys the meaning of his painting in a way that puts him in the character of a “machine.” Warhol’s painting of wrecked car with people standing around it is used to exemplify Warhol as the “machine.” However, while Warhol excelled at portraying his strong message of cars being a danger to a human’s life in one painting, Bergin believes that he didn’t reach his full potential in creating a commercial aspect in his portraits.
Bergin uses Warhol’s painting, Liz, a portrait of Elizabeth Taylor, to show the failed attempts of Warhol at creating the commercial property to be the center of his painting. The viewer of this painting is too confused and concentrated on seeing where the actual identity of Taylor is shown and where the mock image is being displayed. Bergin compares Warhol’s difficulty to clearly distinguish the line that separates the two images to himself not being able to show the difference in his own personal image versus his artistic image. His artistic image has enveloped himself and his artwork to leave his viewers with only one way of looking at him: artificially gray hair and dark glasses.
Throughout his article, Paul Bergin explains the ways that Andy Warhol’s artwork displays both good and bad aspects, which contradict in his ability to be the best talented, successful artist that he has the potential to be. Because there are the negative aspects of Warhol’s paintings affecting the final outcome of the effect of the painting on the average viewer, in general it could be said that Andy Warhol’s artwork is either good or bad. But it’s up to him to change the bad features of his paintings into better effective characteristics that better show his viewers his true artistic skill.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/775065?seq=1&Search=yes&term=history&term=warhol&term=andy&list=hide&searchUri=/action/doAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3Dandy%2Bwarhol%26f0%3Dall%26c1%3DAND%26q1%3Dhistory%26f1%3Dall%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26Search%3DSearch%26ar%3Don%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3Deng%26jo%3D&item=5&ttl=1120&returnArticleService=showFullText&resultsServiceName=null
Ashleigh Dorman
Andy Warhol has a unique image, which is seen through his abstract artwork. In “Andy Warhol: The Artist as Machine,” Paul Bergin emphasizes Warhol’s potential to be a talented, successful artist. Bergin thinks that all Warhol has to do is transform his potential into activation to make him an even more successful artist. He thinks that he should apply himself in this way not just every now and then but in every single artwork making each one memorable and irreplaceable, just like his own personal artistic image. Bergin says that Warhol’s art has some good aspects that will help him reach the status of being a brilliant artist but there are some features of his work holding him back from reaching his full potential.
According to Bergin, Andy Warhol has a gift of portraying his images in a way that catch the viewer’s attention and make them question the difference between the image Warhol has created and what the image looks like in real life. Warhol has a unique way of looking at things, such as a flower, and he recreates the image in his head then illustrates it on paper to share with the rest of the world. For example, in his artwork, Flowers, Warhol uses silk screenings on canvas to depict his vision of flowers of the twentieth century. Warhol also uses silk screenings to illustrate death-image scenes, like suicides and automobile accidents.
In his death-image paintings, Bergin describes Warhol to be the most harmonized with himself and his painting. He says that Warhol truly conveys the meaning of his painting in a way that puts him in the character of a “machine.” Warhol’s painting of wrecked car with people standing around it is used to exemplify Warhol as the “machine.” However, while Warhol excelled at portraying his strong message of cars being a danger to a human’s life in one painting, Bergin believes that he didn’t reach his full potential in creating a commercial aspect in his portraits.
Bergin uses Warhol’s painting, Liz, a portrait of Elizabeth Taylor, to show the failed attempts of Warhol at creating the commercial property to be the center of his painting. The viewer of this painting is too confused and concentrated on seeing where the actual identity of Taylor is shown and where the mock image is being displayed. Bergin compares Warhol’s difficulty to clearly distinguish the line that separates the two images to himself not being able to show the difference in his own personal image versus his artistic image. His artistic image has enveloped himself and his artwork to leave his viewers with only one way of looking at him: artificially gray hair and dark glasses.
Throughout his article, Paul Bergin explains the ways that Andy Warhol’s artwork displays both good and bad aspects, which contradict in his ability to be the best talented, successful artist that he has the potential to be. Because there are the negative aspects of Warhol’s paintings affecting the final outcome of the effect of the painting on the average viewer, in general it could be said that Andy Warhol’s artwork is either good or bad. But it’s up to him to change the bad features of his paintings into better effective characteristics that better show his viewers his true artistic skill.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/775065?seq=1&Search=yes&term=history&term=warhol&term=andy&list=hide&searchUri=/action/doAdvancedSearch%3Fq0%3Dandy%2Bwarhol%26f0%3Dall%26c1%3DAND%26q1%3Dhistory%26f1%3Dall%26acc%3Don%26wc%3Don%26Search%3DSearch%26ar%3Don%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3Deng%26jo%3D&item=5&ttl=1120&returnArticleService=showFullText&resultsServiceName=null
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
feeder 2.1
All competitive athletes around the world are always trying to find strategies to enhance their performances in their respective sports either on the field, on the court, on the track, etc. Many people assume that these athletes are putting extras hours in the weight room, doing extra fitness after practices, and changing their diets all for the purpose that could possibly help their performances. According to the article, “Competitive Sport Environments: Performance Enhancement through Cognitive Intervention written by John M. Silva, a simple strategy called cognitive intervention has helped enhance ‘problemed’ athletes performances in actual competitive play.
Cognitive intervention has modification strategies that focus on identifying where the athlete struggles within their thought processes. These strategies are developed to modify and sometimes replace the cognitive set of the individuals. This is to try and help change the improper behaviors that athletes have issues with their performances. There are many different approaches that can be taken during an intervention such as relaxation, coping imagery, covert conditioning, behavioral rehearsal and real life behavioral demonstrations. Imagery and mental rehearsal are commonly used in sport related skills. These strategies have been seen to improve behavioral input and performance. Using these strategies and adding to the behavior modification strategies can positively highlight performances.
Cognitive intervention has modification strategies that focus on identifying where the athlete struggles within their thought processes. These strategies are developed to modify and sometimes replace the cognitive set of the individuals. This is to try and help change the improper behaviors that athletes have issues with their performances. There are many different approaches that can be taken during an intervention such as relaxation, coping imagery, covert conditioning, behavioral rehearsal and real life behavioral demonstrations. Imagery and mental rehearsal are commonly used in sport related skills. These strategies have been seen to improve behavioral input and performance. Using these strategies and adding to the behavior modification strategies can positively highlight performances.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Reduce your chance of becoming obese and over weight by removing the TV set from your bedroom
The average U.S adult watches TV an average of 5 hours per day, this behavior has become very prevalent in the sedentary lifestyle that most Americans adapt to. Sedentary lifestyles of Americans have contributed to the increase of obesity across the country. Obesity is a state in which a person is well above their normal healthy body weight, depending on their age, height, gender, and build. Clinicians more accurately state the meaning is a person with a BMI (body mass index) above 30. Obesity is a condition that should not be taken lightly due to its enormous health risk associated with this condition such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Most Americans have a television in their bedroom which causes them to have shorter sleep durations which leads Americans especially children to become over weight. Since TV viewing contributes to the sedentary lifestyle and the sedentary lifestyle contributes to the prevalence of obesity, removing the television from the bedroom could in fact decrease the amount of obese and overweight adults in America.
TV viewing has become more than just a pastime it is also a form of bonding among families and friends. The increase of importance TV viewing is lowering the amount of people taking part in other more active activities. After a long day of working the average American likes to relax and unwind in front of a TV set usually located in their bedroom. Studies show that those who have a TV set in their bedroom watches more TV than those who do not. By watching more TV during the night and shortening the sleep duration has been shown to increase one’s chances of becoming overweight.
Most Americans do not view the many dangers that are associated with being overweight and the problems they will cause their children if they continue to adapt to a sedentary lifestyle. By simply removing the TV set from the bedroom could eliminate some risks of becoming obese. By eliminating or reducing the amount of TV time will in turn cause an increase in energy expenditure in obese and overweight adults. People that remove their television from their bedroom have shown to decrease their time watching TV overall. This is a start to a better choices and life styles.
Feeder 2.1
Feeder 2.1
http://bmo.sagepub.com/content/34/5/386.full.pdf+html
The population of sports psychology has increased significantly as an academic regulation and an applied practice over the past two decades. Chris J. Gee wrote an article in Behavior Modification titled “How Does Sports Psychology Actually Improve Athletic Performance? A Framework to Facilitate Athletes’ and Coaches’ Understanding” that explains this increasing psychological study.
As any athlete would tell you, mental preparation before a sporting event as well as the in-game mental preparedness is vital in chances for success. Nevertheless, recent research has shown that given the need for this particular mindset, many athletes, coaches, and sports administrators are still reluctant to seek out the help of sports psychologists. One of the main reasons for this reluctance is the lack of understanding of just how important mental skills are in determining performance. “The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with a simple framework depicting how mental skills training translates into improved within-competition performance. This framework is intended to help bridge the general “understanding gap” that is currently being reported by a large number of athletes and coaches, while also helping sport psychology practitioners sell their valuable services to individual athletes and teams.”
Gee then talks about terminology such as Absolute Performance, “an individual’s theoretical optimal performance (i.e., 100% perfect performance) in a given athletic endeavor” and Relative Performance, “what a person’s 100% performance potential would be in a perfect world or ‘on paper.’” Gee uses figures and tables of athletes performances to explain these terms.
The article then transfers over to the mental side of sports performance. The idea that mind and body are inherently intertwined has been around for centuries. Our emotions and attitudes can directly affect our actions and instincts. These principals also govern sports performance. The main psychological issue facing competitive athletes is precompetitive anxiety. All athletes have experiences pre-game gitters or butterflies before big competitions at some point in their career. Elevated anxiety levels cause many changes in psychological mindset that have the ability to impede athletic performance greatly. High anxiety impairs fine motor functioning, disrupts blood flow patterns, impairs decision making abilities, and causes muscle to become more tense. The primary difference between these psychological factors and impending environmental factors is that the psychological factors are in the athletes control, unlike headwind or perhaps rain, thus explaining the importance of mental skill training.
Gee then talks about strategies to reduce precompetitive anxiety. Anxiety is both cognitive and somatic and both aspects negatively affect an athlete’s performance. Strategies addressed for fixing cognitive anxiety should appraise how athletes view the competitive habitat before competition. The main outcome desired with somatic anxiety is to minimize the psychological performance inhibitors and to help the athlete perform the relative skills to the best of his or her abilities.
Before concluding, Gee talks about sport psychology skills and relative performance. He states how it is clear that sports psychology cannot make someone a better athlete in the absolute sense, but what I can do is help someone performance at a level closer to their absolute potential. Psychological impediments differ greatly from competitor to competitor. Since these are very individualized, the relative impact on performance varies greatly between athletes. Gee uses an example of two athletes with headwinds and psychological impediments to show how different athletes are affected by the same inhibitors.
There are a number of psychological factors that have the potential to negatively affect the outcome for athlete’s ability to perform optimally. The role of sports psychology is to provide athletes with the necessary tools and strategies to address these psychological factors as they arise and thus minimize their negative impact over performance. The framework that Gee presented should be treated as preliminary at this point. However, he says that it should serve as a starting point for addressing the common concerns facing sports consultants in the field. Gee states that framework is an oversimplified explanation of sports psychology that he hopes will be expanded in the future.
http://bmo.sagepub.com/content/34/5/386.full.pdf+html
The population of sports psychology has increased significantly as an academic regulation and an applied practice over the past two decades. Chris J. Gee wrote an article in Behavior Modification titled “How Does Sports Psychology Actually Improve Athletic Performance? A Framework to Facilitate Athletes’ and Coaches’ Understanding” that explains this increasing psychological study.
As any athlete would tell you, mental preparation before a sporting event as well as the in-game mental preparedness is vital in chances for success. Nevertheless, recent research has shown that given the need for this particular mindset, many athletes, coaches, and sports administrators are still reluctant to seek out the help of sports psychologists. One of the main reasons for this reluctance is the lack of understanding of just how important mental skills are in determining performance. “The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with a simple framework depicting how mental skills training translates into improved within-competition performance. This framework is intended to help bridge the general “understanding gap” that is currently being reported by a large number of athletes and coaches, while also helping sport psychology practitioners sell their valuable services to individual athletes and teams.”
Gee then talks about terminology such as Absolute Performance, “an individual’s theoretical optimal performance (i.e., 100% perfect performance) in a given athletic endeavor” and Relative Performance, “what a person’s 100% performance potential would be in a perfect world or ‘on paper.’” Gee uses figures and tables of athletes performances to explain these terms.
The article then transfers over to the mental side of sports performance. The idea that mind and body are inherently intertwined has been around for centuries. Our emotions and attitudes can directly affect our actions and instincts. These principals also govern sports performance. The main psychological issue facing competitive athletes is precompetitive anxiety. All athletes have experiences pre-game gitters or butterflies before big competitions at some point in their career. Elevated anxiety levels cause many changes in psychological mindset that have the ability to impede athletic performance greatly. High anxiety impairs fine motor functioning, disrupts blood flow patterns, impairs decision making abilities, and causes muscle to become more tense. The primary difference between these psychological factors and impending environmental factors is that the psychological factors are in the athletes control, unlike headwind or perhaps rain, thus explaining the importance of mental skill training.
Gee then talks about strategies to reduce precompetitive anxiety. Anxiety is both cognitive and somatic and both aspects negatively affect an athlete’s performance. Strategies addressed for fixing cognitive anxiety should appraise how athletes view the competitive habitat before competition. The main outcome desired with somatic anxiety is to minimize the psychological performance inhibitors and to help the athlete perform the relative skills to the best of his or her abilities.
Before concluding, Gee talks about sport psychology skills and relative performance. He states how it is clear that sports psychology cannot make someone a better athlete in the absolute sense, but what I can do is help someone performance at a level closer to their absolute potential. Psychological impediments differ greatly from competitor to competitor. Since these are very individualized, the relative impact on performance varies greatly between athletes. Gee uses an example of two athletes with headwinds and psychological impediments to show how different athletes are affected by the same inhibitors.
There are a number of psychological factors that have the potential to negatively affect the outcome for athlete’s ability to perform optimally. The role of sports psychology is to provide athletes with the necessary tools and strategies to address these psychological factors as they arise and thus minimize their negative impact over performance. The framework that Gee presented should be treated as preliminary at this point. However, he says that it should serve as a starting point for addressing the common concerns facing sports consultants in the field. Gee states that framework is an oversimplified explanation of sports psychology that he hopes will be expanded in the future.
Monday, November 1, 2010
Feeder 2.1
Obesity in America has become a pressing issue that has all different types of people concerned. The rise in the number of obese Americans has been called an epidemic, and while some may consider this to be somewhat dramatic, the supporting statistics surrounding American obesity are staggering to say the least. According to the National Institutes of Health, in 2004 32.2% of adults suffered from obesity, while another 30% were considered overweight. This number has not declined since, and in fact has drastically increased over the past six years.
According to the National Institutes of Health, obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher. (A BMI of 30 is about 30 pounds overweight) However, a person is generally considered obese when they are at least 20% over their ideal weight when height, sex, age, and build are taken in to consideration. Obesity is incredibly dangerous and can lead to a number of health issues including type two diabetes, coronary heart disease, high LDL or “bad” cholesterol, stroke, hypertension, osteoarthritis (degeneration of cartilage and bone of joints), sleep apnea and other breathing problems, complications of pregnancy, and even some forms of cancer (breast, colorectal, endometrial, and kidney).
Several factors can lead to obesity, including heredity, diet, culture, lack of exercise, and generally “unhealthy” lifestyles. In Katherine E. Jones, Jennifer J. Otten, Rachel K. Johnson, and Jean R. Harvey-Berino’s behavioral study entitled “Removing the Bedroom Television Set: A Possible Method for Decreasing Television Viewing Time in Overweight and Obese Adults,” two of these factors, lack of exercise and unhealthy lifestyle, are apparent. In this study, a group of adults aged 21-65, with BMI’s between 25 and 50, who reported watching at least 3-8 hours of television a day, had their television viewing, and sleep habits recorded. Special monitors attached to the television sets were used to record when and how much television was viewed, and participants recorded when they went to sleep and woke up, both including naps and excluding naps. These monitors were attached to all television sets in the household; however, only the data collected from the bedroom television sets was observed. Television viewing in the bedroom contributes to less exercise along with disruption of sleep habits, both main causes of obesity.
At the conclusion of the study it was found that those with bedroom television sets viewed significantly more television per day. (5.4 hours with compared to 3.6 without) This study reveals that if television sets are not present in the bedrooms of both adults and children, there is a possibility that obesity may be reduced due to more time spent not watching television and improved sleep habits. This is supported by other studies that have shown reduced television viewing time leads to greater energy expenditure, as much as 119 kcals/day. It is essential that the America’s obesity rates drop significantly and while large-scale steps toward this goal are most important, small steps, such as the removal of bedroom television sets, can also help stop this epidemic from spreading.
http://bmo.sagepub.com/content/34/4/290.full.pdf+html
According to the National Institutes of Health, obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher. (A BMI of 30 is about 30 pounds overweight) However, a person is generally considered obese when they are at least 20% over their ideal weight when height, sex, age, and build are taken in to consideration. Obesity is incredibly dangerous and can lead to a number of health issues including type two diabetes, coronary heart disease, high LDL or “bad” cholesterol, stroke, hypertension, osteoarthritis (degeneration of cartilage and bone of joints), sleep apnea and other breathing problems, complications of pregnancy, and even some forms of cancer (breast, colorectal, endometrial, and kidney).
Several factors can lead to obesity, including heredity, diet, culture, lack of exercise, and generally “unhealthy” lifestyles. In Katherine E. Jones, Jennifer J. Otten, Rachel K. Johnson, and Jean R. Harvey-Berino’s behavioral study entitled “Removing the Bedroom Television Set: A Possible Method for Decreasing Television Viewing Time in Overweight and Obese Adults,” two of these factors, lack of exercise and unhealthy lifestyle, are apparent. In this study, a group of adults aged 21-65, with BMI’s between 25 and 50, who reported watching at least 3-8 hours of television a day, had their television viewing, and sleep habits recorded. Special monitors attached to the television sets were used to record when and how much television was viewed, and participants recorded when they went to sleep and woke up, both including naps and excluding naps. These monitors were attached to all television sets in the household; however, only the data collected from the bedroom television sets was observed. Television viewing in the bedroom contributes to less exercise along with disruption of sleep habits, both main causes of obesity.
At the conclusion of the study it was found that those with bedroom television sets viewed significantly more television per day. (5.4 hours with compared to 3.6 without) This study reveals that if television sets are not present in the bedrooms of both adults and children, there is a possibility that obesity may be reduced due to more time spent not watching television and improved sleep habits. This is supported by other studies that have shown reduced television viewing time leads to greater energy expenditure, as much as 119 kcals/day. It is essential that the America’s obesity rates drop significantly and while large-scale steps toward this goal are most important, small steps, such as the removal of bedroom television sets, can also help stop this epidemic from spreading.
http://bmo.sagepub.com/content/34/4/290.full.pdf+html
Why Sports Psychologists Should Be Employed
Ashleigh Dorman
The University of North Carolina is sometimes referred to as The University of Champions because of how much talent is displayed through the number of national championships its sports team is rewarded each year. A number of Carolina students will tell you how exciting it is to be able to call themselves a Tar Heel because UNC athletes are constantly coming out on top with their dedication, skill, and competitiveness. The athletes have a set practice routine and schedule and they have other training that might even include help from other people besides their coaches. Sports psychologists are used in sports to help improve an athlete’s focus and help them get their mind set on the task: scoring that basket or achieving that touchdown. Because of sports psychology being a more recent science, not many coaches and athletes are fully aware of how a sports psychologist could truly increase the chances of a team’s success by allowing the athletes to be not only physically trained but mentally trained as well.
Although it would be an extra expense for a sports team, a sport psychologist would be a smart investment for the success of a team. Sports psychologists help athletes improve their game through preparing them mentally, helping them focus better on the game. The only obstacle in the way of a sports psychologist helping an athlete is the way they are viewed by coaches and athletes. Sports psychologists are misunderstood but once coaches and athletes better understand how much the psychologists can really improve their mental preparedness for the game, there will be an increase in the number of sports psychologists used.
Because of it being new to the sports world, the idea of sports psychology is more popular than its practice actually being used. Sports psychology is a relatively new branch of psychology meaning that numerous coaches and athletes aren’t very knowledgeable of its purpose and objectives of mentally preparing the athletes for a successful game. If an athlete goes into a game with a clearer mindset, there’s a more likely chance the athlete will come out of the game with a victory.
Many coaches and even some athletes are unaware of how beneficial sports psychology is to the performance of an athlete. The connotation of the word psychology is just not helpful in the hope for an increase in use of their services. Coaches and athletes look at it and only think of a sports psychologist being able to help them sort through “problems.” Sports psychologists are compared to other mental practitioners by coaches so they are ruled out of involving the psychologists in their athletes’ lives. Athletes also have the wrong idea of sports psychologists. Athletes choose to avoid them because they don’t want a bad rep of needing a “shrink” to sort out their problems.
If coaches and athletes better understood the job of a sports psychologist, more would be used. Sports psychology is a positive advancement in science for athletes because its central goal is to help the athletes become better focused mentally and sustain that mental stability throughout the game, in turn increasing their chances of winning the game.
http://bmo.sagepub.com/content/34/5/386.full.pdf+html
Ashleigh Dorman
The University of North Carolina is sometimes referred to as The University of Champions because of how much talent is displayed through the number of national championships its sports team is rewarded each year. A number of Carolina students will tell you how exciting it is to be able to call themselves a Tar Heel because UNC athletes are constantly coming out on top with their dedication, skill, and competitiveness. The athletes have a set practice routine and schedule and they have other training that might even include help from other people besides their coaches. Sports psychologists are used in sports to help improve an athlete’s focus and help them get their mind set on the task: scoring that basket or achieving that touchdown. Because of sports psychology being a more recent science, not many coaches and athletes are fully aware of how a sports psychologist could truly increase the chances of a team’s success by allowing the athletes to be not only physically trained but mentally trained as well.
Although it would be an extra expense for a sports team, a sport psychologist would be a smart investment for the success of a team. Sports psychologists help athletes improve their game through preparing them mentally, helping them focus better on the game. The only obstacle in the way of a sports psychologist helping an athlete is the way they are viewed by coaches and athletes. Sports psychologists are misunderstood but once coaches and athletes better understand how much the psychologists can really improve their mental preparedness for the game, there will be an increase in the number of sports psychologists used.
Because of it being new to the sports world, the idea of sports psychology is more popular than its practice actually being used. Sports psychology is a relatively new branch of psychology meaning that numerous coaches and athletes aren’t very knowledgeable of its purpose and objectives of mentally preparing the athletes for a successful game. If an athlete goes into a game with a clearer mindset, there’s a more likely chance the athlete will come out of the game with a victory.
Many coaches and even some athletes are unaware of how beneficial sports psychology is to the performance of an athlete. The connotation of the word psychology is just not helpful in the hope for an increase in use of their services. Coaches and athletes look at it and only think of a sports psychologist being able to help them sort through “problems.” Sports psychologists are compared to other mental practitioners by coaches so they are ruled out of involving the psychologists in their athletes’ lives. Athletes also have the wrong idea of sports psychologists. Athletes choose to avoid them because they don’t want a bad rep of needing a “shrink” to sort out their problems.
If coaches and athletes better understood the job of a sports psychologist, more would be used. Sports psychology is a positive advancement in science for athletes because its central goal is to help the athletes become better focused mentally and sustain that mental stability throughout the game, in turn increasing their chances of winning the game.
http://bmo.sagepub.com/content/34/5/386.full.pdf+html
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