Before LIV kicked off in 2020, when he ran to the venue for the first time, the chief Dustin Colquitt remembered that he looked up and looked up, and saw a trivial matter on the video board: If the chief won today, Dustin joined his father Craig and his brother Britton to become a super bowl champion.
It immediately triggered a round of excessive thinking and anxiety.
“Oh, nonsense,” Korkit thought.
In order to calm his nerves, he used a simple remedy: a series of breathing exercises.
People in various places are dealing with similar pressures or tensions. Professional football players entering the super bowl are experiencing the same feeling, but on the public stage, people can see tens of millions of observations. The extremes of all this forced them to figure out how we can conquer these emotions before we participated in large -scale job hunting interviews, publicly participating in or any stress moments in life.
There are four techniques here to show how to calm down from the super bowl champion.
Find a beneficial distraction
In the middle of the Super Xlix in 2015, Doug Baldwin of the Sea Eagle team felt a little anxious, which was strange for him because he entered the game with his so -called “overwhelming self -confidence”. Essence But he knew where anxiety came from.
He said: “This may sound stupid, but as a player, the confidence that can catch the ball sometimes allows you to stay.”
That’s why he practiced some technology in advance, when he started to do so.
He closed his eyes and stretched his hand in front of him. Then, he touched a fingertips with his thumb, touched his fingertips one by one, and then repeatedly patted his fingers.
Baldwin explained: “At that moment, what is it doing.” “It helps me to cooperate with my body. Your fingertips can be briefly exposed to send a electrical signal in the entire body.”
This is also a distracted person. Baldwin knew that he needed at the moment when he was stressful. He had only one or two hours, and he focused on his favorite strategy game “Galaxy on Fires: Alliances” on his mobile phone.
He said: “I can scattered my thoughts and do something easier and easier to control and relax.”
Other super bowl champions, such as Colquitt, use a similar method to music. Corkit said that although some of his teammates were prepared for big hype music, he prefers the peace of Bob Marley and Jimmy Buffett. The consistency of his music selection also helps to relieve his thoughts.
He said, “I know, if I listen to music, it feels like another game, just another opponent.”
Breathing work can quickly re -calibrate you
When preparing to participate in the super bowl, Colquitt spent a little time as before each game, just focusing on his breath. As the ears of independent rock music are still buzzing, he starts from Number 13.
He held his breath for 13 seconds, and then slowly released for 13 seconds. He counted at a three -point speed, held his breath for 10 seconds, and then released another 10 seconds. Until he fell to three.
Corkit said: “This will start to reduce my heart rhythm.” “Between that and music, it keeps me calm or peaceful. It is just a bit nervous.”
Similarly, before the former Steelman defender Willie Colon performed in the super bowl of XLIII, he put on his uniform and listened to Goapele’s song “CLOSER” repeated and began to count.
He said, “I will count to 10, then from 10 to one, and then return to 10.” “Only counting and focusing on my breathing can calm my nerves. That always helps me.”
For the Patriot’s Logan Ryan, breathing work is not only helpful at the moment of pressure, but also helps during their period.
Ryan entered the second year of NFL in 2015. He won the first super bowl game on NFL. Even if the Patriot team won, he was not satisfied with his mentality.
He said: “I found myself play a role safely.” “I don’t want to be the reason for our lost. I just don’t have adventure because I know what risks. I tell myself that I will never play such a super bowl anymore. “” “
Two years later, when he played a super bowl with the Patriot team for the second time, he was determined not to be afraid of this moment and fearless.
In the third super bowl of his last year of his career, this time in the 2024 game in the 49th of the San Francisco, he said he was in “the most Zen state he had played.”
To a large extent, he learned to breathe technology. Through breathing, he mastered how to track his heart rhythm and reduce his heart. During the competition, even before the game, he used the technology to enter a relaxed state.
He said, “Just let go.” “Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. I really just want to be the moment at the moment. I think the work of breathing really makes me the moment.”
Ryan and Colon still use breathing work to calm their thoughts before large -scale conferences or broadcast games.
Visualization may be powerful
Every night before the game, KJ Wright, the defender of the sea eagle, only takes 10 minutes. No phone, no TV, just completely silent.
In those 10 minutes, he will play the upcoming game in his mind.
He said: “I will talk to myself.” “I would say: ‘You will perform all the spatulas. This is your way. Just bring this energy to me and bring me positive success. That is A weird change of the game rules.
Another sea eagle defender Malcolm Smith is the MVP of the 2014 Super Bowl XLVIII, which is slightly different. When he was preparing for perfect this week, he also reminded himself that before the game, the flaws were part of it, which was okay.
“You know you will make mistakes; this will not be perfect,” he said. “Don’t expect it to become perfect. You will make a mistake, eliminate it, and continue to move forward.”
Hug an important moment
Sometimes, the huge opportunity will be drowned. Both Smith and Baldwin leaned.
Smith kept reminding himself that the hype of the super bowl should not scare him. It should inspire him. He said he was more calm than any other game he played in that game.
“There is no replacement syndrome, because we prove that we should be there.” “Usually, if you have an important day, it is usually because you win that opportunity to come there. This helps me calm down and and Last.
Baldwin said: “Let the moment be the moment.” “No matter what happened at that moment, enjoy the moment, and be with the present. This is a very powerful detoxification agent for anxiety and doubt.”
Bruce Arians won the head coach of the Tanpa Bay Pirates in 2021. He just wanted to be himself. Therefore, he did what the night before the game: I drank a few glasses of wine and slept well. After all, he thinks it is enough to let him go to the super bowl.
“I have never tried to change,” said the Ali people. “I try to keep unchanged. As long as I keep my daily work, there will be no additional speculation.”
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