Lt Col Harald Dobmeier, MSc. (Armed Forces Office – Sport Department, Bonn, Germany) SPORT PSYCOLOGY – THEORETICAL BASIS OF SPORTY ACTIVITIES

Sport Psychology – Theoretical basics of sporty Activities

LIEUTENANT COLONEL HARALD DOBMEIER

Armed Forces Office – Sport Department, Bonn, Germany

Introduction
Sporty performance is not only dependent on corporality and training conditions. In actual fact psychological processes affect them in a variety of ways.
From there it’s essential to know the theoretical fundament which based on the adequate psychological methods to advise athletes effective and promising. 

Configuration of actions
For creating suitable sport psychological intervention it is necessary and useful to understand the complex structure of activities. It is an interaction of different connected factors. It seems like opaque and difficult. But by a closer view it is very easy and simple.
It’s a network, composed of emotional and motivated person, the motor and mental task and finally the material and social environment.
On closer examination of this complex it follows varied indications and starting-points for analyzing mental problems and for formulation appropriate interventions.

Triad Phases of actions
On the other way every activities are structured systematically. To know and to understand the linkage between the components and the structure of the activities is very helpful on the one hand to make the individual sequences of sport explainable and otherwise it’s useful to find the right starting points for a mental training.