PSYCHOLOGY

Choking under pressure is defined as diminishing our own abilities in circumstances where the pressure to perform well increases or, […]

Generally, in managing stressful situations in skiing, we tend to use different strategies that vary in time and in each

Coping is about what we do to alleviate situational stress, that is, the ability to manage challenging, threatening or dangerous

The neuroscience of the traumatized mind A traumatic experience can modify our brain. Trauma separates both brain hemispheres. The traumatized

A trauma is a non-daily condition in which our physical integrity was in danger and was experienced with intense emotion

Some possible stressors when skiing could be: Once on the slopes, the most common stressors may be: Body stress Certain

We mentioned that when skiing it is natural to present biological stress, that is to say, responses of our organism

Stress hormones Upon sensing some form of imminent danger, our brain sends signals for glands to produce hormones such as

Among the theories of stress are the following: The Yerkes-Dodson Law or Inverted ‘U’ Theory postulates how performance, whether recreational

Stress is our mental and bodily reaction to something that we interpret as an emergency situation, a danger, a challenge,