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Mark Bowden is a mental performance coach to Premier League & Champions League players.
He is the author of the best selling book: Use Your Brain, Raise Your Game: The Professional Footballer Guide to peak Performance.
Mark regularly gets approached by the media for his expert opinions and has appeared on Sky Sports, TalkSport and various national publications.
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If you’re looking for the best way to improve concentration and increase focus as a footballer, in this video I’m going to give you a brilliant strategy to use to help you improve your game. When it comes to the types of mental training for football players that I recommend most often, the ability to remain focused, and have brilliant concentration levels in a game, is right up there as one of the most important.
I’m Mark Bowden - Mental Performance Consultant to Premier League & Championship football players. And on my Fearless Footballer channel, I’m sharing exclusive methods of mental training, for football players of all levels.
Quite simply, if you subscribe to my channel and implement the things I teach, you WILL become a better football player.
If you’re interested in developing your game by improving your mental performance, you should also check out my Instagram: / officialmarkbowden
-- The Best Way to Improve Concentration and Increase Focus (Mental Training for Football Players) --
When it comes to improving your concentration levels and increasing your ability to focus, there are obvious benefits that will improve your game more-or-less instantly. Firstly, you’re paying close attention to what’s happening within the game, so you’re more likely to see the runs of your teammates or identify a dangerous run from one your opponents.
Because football is played at such a fast pace we need to rely on split second decision making and, if we aren’t concentrating, our decision making is going to be slower, our reaction times are going to be sluggish and we’re going to miss out the opportunities presented to us.
But there’s another reason why concentration and focus is enormously important for every football player…
And, for me, this reason is more important than any other!
Let’s think about the very best game you’ve ever played…
When you were playing in this game, I’m going to guess that everything you did felt… effortless.
You might have covered more ground, had more intensity about your game, things just seemed to click.
And at the same time, you felt like you could play all day long.
Now think: when you were doing everything brilliantly, what were you thinking about?
I ask this because when we are performing to our very best levels, most of the impressive things we do are actually instinctive… it’s automatic… it’s almost like you have a sixth sense and you simply KNOW exactly what to do… and you do it without thinking…
If you want to learn more about this state of mind, make sure you check out my video.
👍 If you find this video useful, please do give it a like (or a share) because it really helps me a lot! And if you'd like to see more videos like this, check out the rest of my channel and hit the subscribe button so you don't miss the new ones.
(Draginski, B., Gaser, C., Busch, v., Schuierer, G., Bogdahn,U,m & May, A. (2004) Neuroplasticity: Changes in grey matter induced by training. Nature, 427 311-312)
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