In 2020, Chiefs Punter Dustin ColquitT, who ran away for the first time before the SUPER BOWL LIV kickoff, remembers to find a quiz on the video board. If the patriarch wins today, Dustin joins Dad Craig and Britain Britain as the Super Bowl Champion.
It immediately triggered a bout of thought and anxiety.
COLQUITT thought it was “oh, garbage.”
To calm the nerve, he used a simple treatment: a series of breathing exercises in the side job.
Everywhere, people deal with similar pressure or tension. The professional footballers who made it in the Super Bowl are experiencing the same feelings, but tens of millions of people can see it on the public stage. Its extremes are all forced to find out how to conquer these feelings before big interviews, participating in public speeches, or before the pressure of our lives.
There are four tips on how to keep your mind quiet from the Super Bowl Champion.
Find a helpful interference
In the middle of the 2015 Super XLIX, Seahawks Wide receiver Doug Baldwin felt some anxiety. It was strange to him after he participated in a game that he called “overwhelming confidence.” But he knew where the anxiety came from.
“This may sound foolish, but the conviction that you can catch the ball as a receiver sometimes leaves you.”
That’s why he practiced some skills in advance. One of them started at that moment.
He closed his eyes and caught his hand in front of him. Then I used my thumb to touch my fingers one by one and knocked my finger repeatedly.
Baldwin said, “I was deceiving me again at that moment. “It helps to harmonize with my body. Simply touch your fingertips to send an electrical signal all over your body. ”
It also knew that it was necessary at the moment Baldwin had pressure. 1-2 hours ago, he preoccupied him with his favorite strategy game, Galaxy on Fire: Alliances.
“I was able to distract my heart and go with a little more control and light heart,” he said.
Other Super BOWL champions, such as COLQUITT, have a similar approach to music. COLQUITT said some of his team members prepared a big game with big over -advertising music, but preferred the calm of Bob Marley and Jimmy Buffett. The consistency of his music choice also helped to alleviate his mind.
“I knew that when I listened to my music, I felt that I felt only other games and other opponents,” he said.
Breathe work can quickly correct you
COLQUITT spent a moment as before all the game before playing to play in SUPER BOWL, focusing on breathing. Indie Rock music is still a winding sound, he started with No. 13.
He was able to breathe for 13 seconds and breathe slowly for 13 seconds. He stopped the count for 10 seconds after breaking the count with three increments and released it for 10 seconds. Until he went down to three.
Colquitt said, “We will start slowing your heart rate. “Between that music and music it kept me calmly or peace. I just took my nerves from everything. ”
Similarly, before the former Steelers Guard Willie Colon played in Super Bowl XLIII, he wore a uniform, repeatedly listened to the “Closer” song of Gaapele, and began to calculate.
“I go from 10 to 10 to 10 to 10,” he said. “Focusing on my breathing and focusing on my breath really calmed down. It always helped me. ”
For the Patriot Connor Back Logan Ryan, breathing work not only helped before the pressure, but also helped.
Ryan was in the NFL for the second year when he created his first Super Bowl in 2015, and he was not pleased with his spirit even if the patriot won.
“I played it safely,” he said. “I didn’t want to be the reason we lost. I didn’t take the risk because I knew what was in danger. I told myself that I would never do such a super ball again. ”
Two years later, when he made a superball with the patriot, he decided to play without fear without fear of the moment.
In the last year of his career, with the third Super Bowl, he said in 2024, with the San Francisco 49ers in 2024, he said he was “in most Sunstates.”
Most of them were due to breathing technology. He learned around him. Through breathing, he mastered how to track and drop heart rate. On the bench, even in the field before the play, he used this technology to enter a comfortable state.
“Just let go.” “Do not be afraid of mistakes. I really wanted to be at that moment, and I think breathing really blocked me. ”
Ryan and Colon still uses breathing to calm down big meetings or broadcast games.
Visualization can be powerful
KJ Wright, a backker of the Seahawks line every night before the match, takes only 10 minutes. There is no phone call, no TV, gun silence.
In that 10 minutes he will remind me of the coming game.
“I talk to myself,” he said. “I will do all the tackles. This is your way. ‘It brings that energy to me and brings that positive success. It was an amazing game changer. I swear by it. ”
Another Seahawks Line backer, MVP, MVP of Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014, showed a slightly different torsion. He prepared for perfection for a week, but he reminded himself that the imperfections were part and okay before the game.
“You knew you would make a mistake. It won’t be perfect, ”he said. “Do not set the expectation that it will be perfect. You make mistakes, knock down and keep going. ”
Embrace a large moment
Sometimes a huge opportunity can be overwhelming. Smith and Baldwin leaned.
Smith constantly reminded me that Super Bowl’s over -advertising should not surprise him. You must excite him. He said he was more calm in that game than any other game.
Smith said, “There was no cheat syndrome because we proved that we were eligible to be there.” “In general, if there is a big day, you can often be there because you have that opportunity. It helped me to calm down and attend. ”
Boldwin said, “Let’s be a moment.” “Enjoy the moment you come to that moment and attend the moment you come out at that moment. It is a very powerful antidote for anxiety and doubt. ”
Bruce Arians, who won the Super Bowl as the chief coach of the Pirate Stone of Tampa Bay in 2021, wanted to be himself. So he always did what he did the night before the game. Two drinks and sleep. In the end, he thought it was enough to take him to the Super Bowl.
Arians said, “I never tried to change. “I tried to stay the same. Keep the routine the same so that there is no more advertising. ”
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