Word: bernal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bernal claims that by the end of the season at the Eastern finals, his team is swimming a race that they have mentally rehearsed thousands of times before. Last year, for example, his "weak team" placed first at the Eastern Seaboard Championships because of their mental preparedness, he says...
...swim coach Joseph Bernal, accepted as reigning export on the subject at Harvard, tells of a Vietnam prisoner of war, who returning home after seven years, plays golf on his local course. Although emaciated and weak, he scores near per because he claims he has been practicing for years, mentally rehearsing the course as an escape from prison life...
...Bernal has been advocating the use of psychological training since he developed the technique on himself 17 years ago, and claims that mental concentration makes up 60 to 70 percent of day to day training, and 90 percent of competition performance...
...that starting block everyone's equal...it's a mental game in the water to see how tough you are, how mentally prepared you are to accept those challenges...The race doesn't go to the strongest team, the fastest team, but the one that's most intelligent," Bernal says...
With this goal in mind, Bernal has his swimmers spending four-five hours a week on mental training. Two and one half hours of this time are spent as a group each week in practice. Beyond that swimmers are expected to devote time on-their own, listening to a series of cassettes prepared for individual relaxation training...