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What strategies do you use to help athletes maintain focus and avoid distractions during training and competition?

Focus is essential for the success of an athlete, and there are a few ways to strengthen focus, such as using breathing and meditation to center yourself, having a laminated 48-hour routine card, knowing and doing your job one play at a time, staying in the moment, and breaking down tasks into small, palatable segments.
 
Transcript: "So focus is huge to your success as an athlete because results happen at the end, you have to do things methodically to get there. Step by step, one of the most important things is to use breathing with Focus to Center yourself. Okay. Be it to get yourself a little more in the moment and you can use meditation outside of training to strengthen the cortical part of your brain that will help with Focus. Another thing is to keep a 48-hour routine laminated card, keep it in your car, keep it in your bag. That shows you all the things you need to do in the 48 hours before when T, when to sleep. When to do your warm up, listen to your playlist. Okay? It'll help both your confidence and your focus, okay? As you get flustered and get nervous. Okay. A lot of times you forget things and so this will kind of show you what to do in every A moment Bill, Belichick has a great saying know what your job is and do your job and every moment Nick Saban championships are won one play at a time. Yes, the big picture matters but it's in the details that get us there. One. Play at a time when they looked at why people quit hard things, they very rarely quit only because they were hard, they quit because they got flustered and thought about everything up ahead. Try to stay in the now. Okay, look at other sports. The biathlon Fascinating because it's a sympathetic sympathetic fight or flight nervous system of cross-country ski racing with the parasympathetic rest and digest of shooting. You can see them go through the systems and lose focus. You see this when the quarterback throws the ball to the wide receiver and he's thinking end zone or getting hit before he drops the ball. So be in the now and lastly segment, things break things down in a small palatable segments. It makes gives you a dope. I mean Russian allows you to get things."
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So focus is huge to your success as an athlete because results happen at the end, you have to do things methodically to get there. Step by step, one of the most important things is to use breathing with Focus to Center yourself. Okay. Be it to get yourself a little more in the moment and you can use meditation outside of training to strengthen the cortical part of your brain that will help with Focus. Another thing is to keep a 48-hour routine laminated card, keep it in your car, keep it in your bag. That shows you all the things you need to do in the 48 hours before when T, when to sleep. When to do your warm up, listen to your playlist. Okay? It'll help both your confidence and your focus, okay? As you get flustered and get nervous. Okay. A lot of times you forget things and so this will kind of show you what to do in every A moment Bill, Belichick has a great saying know what your job is and do your job and every moment Nick Saban championships are won one play at a time. Yes, the big picture matters but it's in the details that get us there. One. Play at a time when they looked at why people quit hard things, they very rarely quit only because they were hard, they quit because they got flustered and thought about everything up ahead. Try to stay in the now. Okay, look at other sports. The biathlon Fascinating because it's a sympathetic sympathetic fight or flight nervous system of cross-country ski racing with the parasympathetic rest and digest of shooting. You can see them go through the systems and lose focus. You see this when the quarterback throws the ball to the wide receiver and he's thinking end zone or getting hit before he drops the ball. So be in the now and lastly segment, things break things down in a small palatable segments. It makes gives you a dope. I mean Russian allows you to get things.