Stress & Sport Performance

True or False: Performance stress a negative

• True

• False

What is Distress?

• Good stress

• Bad Stress

• A stressor

What is Eustress

• Good Stress

• Bad Stress

• A Stressor

Distress leads to...

• Anxiety and Bad performance

• Motivation and Bad performance

• Anxiety and Good performance

• Motivation and Good performance

Which one of these is a psychological symptom of stress?

• Increased HR

• Increased breathing rate

• Increase Muscle

• Decision making

Which one of these are a physiological symptom of stress

• Anger

• None of these

• Negative mindset

• Perspiration

What stress comes from inside of us?

• Angry

• Mood swings

• Internal stress

• External Stress

Somatic stress is....

• the changed that occur in the actions your carry out or how you act.

• the physiological response to stress

• to the negative thoughts, nervousness and worry experienced in certain situations

Effects of stress are...

• Behaviour, Somatic and External

• Nervous system response, negative mental state and loss of self-confidence and concentration

• Nervous system response, internal and somatic

Causes of Sporting Stress in athletes include

• Finances

• Importance of the event

• Sleep deprivation

• Type A personality