Getting Pumped

Pump up. This happens in many different forms. Listening to music before the big game in the locker room. On the field in front of your whole team. It can happen alone or with everyone. Everyone has their own way of pumping themselves up. Me for example I love music. I listen to so much music before my game. Every second I am thinking of what could happen. I get that feeling inside my stomach. If you are an athlete you will understand what I am talking about. That “Natural High.” It is a feeling like none other. This is a mix of emotions. From fear to excitement, nervousness to confidence, anger to happiness, these are the emotions you fell all at one time. At times these emotions can be overwhelming. It is important not to let these things take advantage of you and have effect on your performance. The best players are the ones who learn how to control these emotions. They understand how to keep them hidden even on the first play of the game. Revealing these emotions to early can lead to disaster, and revealing them to late could lead to a helpless loss. The greatest players know exactly the right time to call upon these emotions. Not too early and not too late. Sometimes the pump up does not happen before the game or competition but rather in the middle, when it is needed most. Sure it helps to be pumped before the game, but great things can happen to a team that comes out of the locker room at half time pumped up and ready to go compared to a team with no motivation to do any worse or any better than they already have for the first half. It is upon this that great teams separate themselves from the weak ones. Showing a sign of togetherness rather than a sign of separation and distraction. There is an unlimited amount of ways to get pumped up. Everyone has their own way. No one can decide yours for you, but rather you have to go searching for it and find it. It could be something very obvious that you enjoy, or it could be something you never expected. That is all the fun in getting pumped up. You have to find your way. You cannot let someone tell you how to get pumped. The decision is yours for the taking.

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