Why Athletes Experience Fear

Although there are numerous reasons why athletes experience fears, some of the biggest fears are created because of a lack of timing in sports. Timing is the synchronization of the communication between your mind and body. When this communication is On then you'll experience a perfect performance in training and during competition. When this timing is Off you'll experience fears, doubts, self sabotage, negatives and a poor mental focus.

Remember when you've had days where everything seems to be On, in the Flow or you are in the Zone? Well in those days it seems that everything that you do will almost be done perfectly without any problems whatsoever.

On those days your internal timing is working at a 100% level and this is what creates this feeling of being in the Zone or Flow in your training or during competition.

Here is what happens when your fears come into the picture:

1. If your timing is Off then the communications between your mind and body even slightly off will create a negative feeling because all of the information from your mind to the body doesn't get through because of a so-called electrical short that prevents this from occurring.

2. As soon as this interference happens then your mind has no choice but to go and retrieve a possible solution to this lack of communication.

3. Although your mind has a choice of going positive or negative, it will 99% of the time chooses a negative thought, feeling or fear to cling on up.

4. Once your mind then this fear is a negative tendency to have a little feeling of uncertainty about everything that you try to run or practice your sport.

Now athletes know this kind of feeling and hope that all their training into the situation, a positive feeling that they can achieve levels of performance throughout the competition.

What works and plays at the right time for the competition.

Once the athletesknow about how to eliminate and control this process then they'll be able to control the outcome of any training or performance to their very best level.