Week 2 - Listening to music

Weeks 2 and 3 will be the acquisition phase. This will focus on strategies and techniques for learning the different psychological skills. The PST programme will be tailored to meet my clients needs during this phase.

Listening to music has been described and explained to the client in how effective it can be to increase their motivation. I have chosen listening to music as a technique to increase motivation as it is within the client's interest and it is a free technique. Once I have taught the client and they understand the technique, they are capable of performing this by themselves and do not need assistance. This weeks meeting with the client will be in a quiet location, local cafe, which will enable us to listen to a lot of songs and playlists that the client is in to. This meeting lasted 1 hour and this was enough time to figure out their music taste and this will therefore enable me to make a playlist for the client. Whilst discussing music tastes, the client has highlighted the following songs as songs they listen to before a match.

After having the meeting with the client and discovering what kind of music they listen to before a match. It was clear to me, as a sports psychologist, using https://songbpm.com/, that the client was listening to songs with a low BPM (Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know) and (Arctic Monkeys - I Wanna Be Yours) before a match and this is what may be causing the lack of motivation they are suffering with. My task, as the sports psychologist, will be to look at the type of music the client likes e.g. Arctic Monkeys, and find songs by that artist that have a higher beats per minute as this will result in a higher arousal and motivation levels.