We see this all the time in rugby locally, it must be instinctual the guys do this so much!<\/p>\n
“Sportspeople often talk about being \u2018in the zone\u2019, but I\u2019m sure many are unaware of what this actually means. The zone in question to give it it\u2019s full title is the \u2018zone of optimal functioning\u2019 or when an athlete performs to their absolute maximum \u2013 has the perfect game. That is why it is the holy grail \u2013 it has so many variables that an athlete will be lucky to truly achieve this once or twice in their career. Anything from amount of sleep, relationship status, nutrition, training and coach input (amongst countless others) can influence performance. One such occasion when someone came pretty close to a best possible game was David Beckham against Greece in the World Cup qualifiers in 2001:<\/p>\n
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Beckham\u2019s arousal levels would have been close to their optimum. Arousal is defined as alertness or awakeness and exists on a continuum between deep sleep and panic\/red mist territory……… quote InTouch “Trimble was there last year six nations” http:\/\/www.thesportinmind.com\/articles\/being-in-the-zone-sports-holy-grail\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We see this all the time in rugby locally, it must be instinctual the guys do this so much! “Sportspeople often talk about being \u2018in the zone\u2019, but I\u2019m sure many are unaware of what this actually means. The zone in question to give it it\u2019s full title is the \u2018zone of optimal functioning\u2019 or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6146,14074,5871,5747,5743,12240],"class_list":["post-80381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-being","tag-holy","tag-in","tag-sports","tag-the","tag-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80388,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80381\/revisions\/80388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}