Blood lactate levels can be tested to measure a riders fitness, using a stop watch to recording lap times can be used to measure bike conditioning and speed and dyno testing and computer programmes can be used to measure the bikes performance.

So how do you measure a person’s feelings, concentration and motivation?

There is no tool you can plug in to the human body and measure a persons feelings, when they are sitting on a start line to find out if they are scared stiff or bursting with excitement (and all the other possible feelings in-between) as they wait for the gate to drop.

This is something that, you as a rider, have to become aware of first of all (how are you feeling in certain situations and would you be able to get better results if you get rid of unresourceful feelings and replace them with feelings of excitement, self belief and confidence) you can choose to either deal with it yourself, to get the result you want or hire a Motocross performance psychologist, like Ed Bradley, to ensure that you are feeling totally empowered when preparing for battle and make the most of all the hours of training, practicing and testing in preparation for the racing season.

A way of improving concentration and motivation is setting goals. When done correctly this will provide huge motivation and determination to achieve those goals.

Two of the most important parts of setting goals are;

1, that the goals are for you only with no influence from other people or what you think other people want you to achieve. Basing your goals on what you believe other people expect from you will lead to a conflict with the goals that have been set and what you feel you can actually achieve deep down. What result do you want to get more than anything else in the world?

2, be specific about the results you want to achieve. If you went to an airport check-in desk without a ticket and no idea where you want to go, you’d go nowhere! If you said that you wanted to go to America, then you can get a flight to America, however, you might end up being thousands of miles away from where you want to be. This is why you need to be specific with your goals, so you can get to where you want to go.

A goal is ‘an end in mind’ and sets you off on a journey to get those results. Once this happens, there is a realization that there is only you in a race. No longer is there any need to look at other riders before you go on to a start line and have thoughts of ‘oh, his bike is more superior to mine’, ’he’s better than me’, ‘I hate him’, ‘I’ve got to beat him’. The focus becomes the result you want and the strategies you are going to use to get it.

Totally focusing on your goals is what gives the winning racers the determination and single mindedness (some may call it arrogance) to get out there and get the race results they want.

To your success.............Ed Bradley

Ed Bradley.

Motorsport Performance Coach.

Certified Master Practitioner of NLP,

Certified Master Practitioner of Time line Therapy®,

Certified Master Hypnotist.

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