Over 20 years leading research in Attentional Focus for high performance – Dr Gabriele Wulf

We can all relate to the central role that mental and attentional training plays in high level sports. We easily recognise that the difference between a high performer – just think of Roger Federer – and one that perhaps did not quite make the grade is not about having more muscles, more physical training or more skills knowledge – but rather the wisdom of their choice of focus and attention under pressure and the essential ability to reset the mind when all seems to go off plan. In the last twenty years sports science has indeed made tremendous advances in harnessing the make or break power of the mind and […]