The
Power of
Mental
Training and
Creative Visualization
in
Sports
Eye-opening Results of a Study
In
one of the most well-known
studies on mental training and
creative visualization in sports,
Russian scientists compared
four groups of Olympic athletes in terms of their
training schedules:
Group 1: 100% physical training;
Group 2: 75% physical training
with 25% mental training;
Group 3: 50% physical training
with 50% mental training;
Group 4: 25% physical training
with 75% mental training.
The Group 4,
with 75% of their time
devoted to mental training,
performed the best.
"A man is but the product of his
thoughts: what he thinks, he becomes." ~
Mahatma Gandhi
"The great successful
man of the world have
used their imaginations, they think ahead and
create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that
picture in all its details,... and steadily building, steadily building."
