Strategies for Improving Concentration and Attention Control in Athletes

Every athlete has lost a point, a lift or a round because their attention went somewhere it should not have been: to the scoreboard, to the crowd, to the last mistake. Concentration is often talked about as if it were a character trait, something you either have under pressure or do not. The research treats it differently, as a set of skills that respond to training in much the same way as strength or endurance do. This article looks at the two best-studied approaches to training attention in sport and what they tell a coach or athlete about keeping and regaining focus when it matters.

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