SNR #183: Arthur Lynch & Eoghan McNeill - Sports Psychology in Self-Paced/Closed-Skill Sports
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2017
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Sigma coach Arthur Lynch interviews sport psychology PhD researcher Eoghan McNeill of the University of Limerick on applying evidence-based sports psychology techniques to improve performance, particularly in powerlifting and other self-paced/closed skill sports.
Eoghan is a PhD researcher in the PESS department at the Univeristy of Limerick. Eoghan's research examines improving performance in self-paced sports (focusing on golf) through psychology techniques and mental preparation. Eoghan has a MSc. in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Ulster University, Jordanstown (UUJ). Eoghan can be contacted at [email protected]
In This Episode We Discuss:
Pre-performance routine and the importance of conscious thought
Use of first-person and third-person imagery for performance and skill acquisition
Effective self-talk
Thought replacement strategy and reframing negative thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | Because what we tend to get with expert performers is we tend to get this over learning of their particular skill to the point where they don't have to actually attribute any kind of cognitive resources to the biomechanical focus of the skill itself, right? So basically in layman's terms, they have learned their skill to the point where they don't have to really think about physically, completely the skill. |
| 0:27.6 | So what you end up with then is you end up with all of this kind of free thinking space, which can be filled with task, irrelevant thoughts. |
| 0:36.6 | And that's all the performance machine is really doing. |
| 0:39.3 | It's just filling this time and filling this cognitive space |
| 0:42.3 | with task relevant cues that are going to actually aid, in this case, the lifter to perform. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio. My name is Danny Lennon, |
| 1:08.5 | and you're listening to episode 183 of the podcast. And today is going |
| 1:14.3 | to be a slight change of pace in that I'm not going to be conducting today's interview. |
| 1:19.3 | Today we're going to have Sigma Nutrition Coach Arthur Lynch talking to a fellow PhD researcher |
| 1:25.8 | at the University of Limerick, Owen McNeil, who specialises |
| 1:29.3 | in sports psychology. |
| 1:31.2 | So just as some reference for those of you who may not have been listening to the show for |
| 1:35.4 | a while or unaware of our coaching staff here, one of our coaches, Arthur Lynch, is currently |
| 1:41.9 | doing PhD research in muscle physiology within the University of Limerick, |
| 1:47.6 | and outside of that as an athlete is an elite level powerlifter. And as of right now, he's about |
| 1:53.6 | two weeks out, I think, from IPF worlds, which are happening in Belarus, where Arthur will be competing |
| 1:59.8 | in the 93 kilo category. |
| 2:02.1 | So working within the physical education and sports science department in the University of |
| 2:07.4 | Limerick, Arthur has got to know Owen, who is on today's show quite well and has discussed |
| 2:13.6 | a lot of the research that he's been doing within certain self-paced, clothes |
| 2:18.7 | skills, sports, as you'll hear once they get on the show. And this kind of particularly |
| 2:24.9 | relates to Arthur as a powerlifter. And so most of the conversation that you'll hear today |
| 2:30.5 | is framed from that perspective of looking at improving performance and skill acquisition |
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