Self-Efficacy In Hockey

Hockey is a sport of various performance methods. There is a strong physical side and a mental one as well. Each side needs addressing to meet up with the demands that hockey players must live up to in their sport. Hockey like many sports is pushing all hockey players to the limits. With no more hours in the day to work with to get more training done they need to find new ways to get more out of each minute that they put into their sport. This has the question what is worth doing with the little time that is available to keep one with or ahead of the competition? Several studies have answered this question. ………. Improving performance is many different things combined into one, a mental-physical training that cumulates in winning the …show more content…
Where and when to shoot the puck at the net is as important as having the strength to hit the puck with an amazing amount of force. important after all the physical training to be able to use it to a hockey players advantage on the ice. There have been many ways that psychologists have said to improve in competitive sports, but one study focused specifically on how hockey players view self-efficacy and accuracy in goal scoring. This study involved players viewing or not viewing videotapes of a perfect model of shooting a goal. They divided into two groups one group watching the videos as part of their training the other group took that time and did more drills. The group watching the videos had a slightly larger improvement in their goal scoring and self-efficacy than the control group. This may seem useless information, but it has a significant impact on a hockey players training. When there is only so much energy to expend being able to watch a video and improve goal scoring a huge help for an already tired athlete. This study is backed up by another…… that show watching any sport, in general, is guaranteed to improve performance. This is because the same area in the brain is involved in viewing the action as well as doing the action. The area triggered so much the same that to the brain there is no difference between actually executing the movement or just watching the movement be done by someone else.

Mentally watching someone perform the desired outcome, HIIT training and plyometrics are some of the options strongly backed by science. There will always be though, newly welcomed research to consider as a hockey player to keep up with the competition. Until there is something better these training methods should be strongly considered to incorporated improve performance in the game of