Physical Education

Unit - 3

3.2.10.1.Pressure Training Sessions
How to keep your skills even when all about you are losing theirs?
Coping under pressure is the hallmark of success in any sport. As often as not, the best performers are those who keep the skill elements of their game or event together under the most severe physical and psychological duress. Such ability is not simply a result of natural talent, although genetic endowment is a requisite for elite-level performance in modem-day sport. Well-structured training programmes and sessions draw the best from an athlete, conditioning him or her to perform at the highest level when it matters on competition day.

Normal training sessions may work on biochemical adaptations within the body to enhance various fitness attributes. They require some sort of biochemical overload to the body systems to trigger adaptations, given sufficient recovery in between.

Technique work, when fresh, will enhance skill learning and improve the ability to perform the particular skill in the correct manner when required. This is fine for the improvement of skill in the training environment, but sometimes added stimulus is required to make the situation more specific to actual competition. Such training can come in the form of pressure.