At least I’m consistent. I couldn’t get back in the groove yesterday morning and lost my final racquetball match, playing poorly once again. Ah, well, now I have a good reason to start and maintain this mental exercise program that’s laid out in the book Sports Psyching: Playing Your Best Game All of the Time, by Thomas Tutko.
Part of the book is a six week, 20 minutes/day mental exercise program that’s designed to give you the basics. So today I started with the muscle relaxation exercise called “Let go.” I’m supposed to do it every day for a week. Putting this down in writing and publishing it in my blog is a way of making more of a commitment to it. It’s a little harder to abandon a goal if I’ve let others know about it.
Part of working on this plan for me means playing less racquetball. Less practice, fewer games. Robbie thinks I’ve been too obsessed with it lately, and she’s probably right. As long as the weather’s still decent for XC skiing, I’ll do more of that. And start playing ping pong with my daughter. And staying on my weight lifting program. And swimming and walking and dancing with Robbie. We’ll see how I do.