Ben Greenfield separates visualization, which rehearses specific sports moves, from spatial skills training, which builds general physical readiness through daily 3D games. He describes a drill where athletes slow down time in their mind, like watching a water drop creep across Michael Phelps's goggles, then snap back to real speed. Training both sharpens the brain as much as the body.
In my head, I think of visualization as being your sports specific training and spatial skills are your gpp. So every single day, no matter what, you're into some type of spatial game that challenges your ability to manipulate scenes in 3D. In your head, it's maybe you realize that you just get fast and aggressive in periods of time where you don't need to be. We're going to practice a visualization drill that involves speeding up and slowing down time. So maybe you see the drop of water come really slowly off Michael Phelps's goggles, and then once it leaves the goggle, back to real time. So there's a dual training modality that I kind of bring to the table when we talk about training an athlete's brain.
All right, andy.
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