Same ability – different performance from match to match!

Same ability – different performance from match to match!
For each field of human activity, the “necessary” elements-characteristics vary, depending on the requirements of the conditions. In the sports environment, the adaptation and success of athletes depends on factors that mainly concern physical and technical elements, as those that are “projected” more. Athletes train to develop their sport-specific components with greater emphasis on how to improve in terms of their physical condition as well as their technical knowledge.
Why, however, are they not in the same mood every day? What are the factors that determine their tolerance to exercise fatigue? Why do some understand better the instructions given and develop correspondingly better perception and speed of thought? Why do some athletes become “better” than others, while following the same training? And if someone is talented in technical or physical elements, will they necessarily reach the top? Because for many athletes, training is a high-performance environment, while in competition they find it difficult to “bring out” their best selves. Why are there shifts in performance while ability is either maintained or improved?
Research data and daily experience show that the athlete’s success “depends” on many Psychological and Spiritual factors. Psychological includes motivation, self-confidence, stress management, emotion management, self-control, and other factors that “regulate” the athlete’s emotional state.
Corresponding to the Mental factors, skills such as concentration, the ability to analyze information, speed of thought, decision-making, information selection, understanding of the environment and all the elements that make up the intellectual dimension of the person are included.
The ability obtained as a result of training concerns technical and tactical features of the sport. The ability of the athlete to perform in each match based on his ability, his consistent performance from match to match depends on psycho-spiritual factors.
It shows that it is necessary for athletes, especially at a high level, to focus on the consistency of performance, as a factor that “distinguishes” them and “places” them at the high level. For this purpose, psycho-spiritual factors are for many athletes a field of focus in their daily sports activity.
Otherwise, while the athlete is at a high level he will not perform in every competition, sometimes because he has not managed his emotions and sometimes because he did not “read” the demands of the competition correctly.
Both Psychological and Spiritual elements are the result of corresponding “training”, each athlete has the possibility to “work” on them and based on his effort to acquire them. Athletes choose to focus on technical elements and physical condition, as these are what “show” the most. For the optimal physical condition, it will be necessary to have the corresponding psycho-spiritual condition as well.