When you're preparing for an important athletic event, you do everything possible to reach optimum performance. While your physical training can help you get the most out of your body, deep meditation gets the most out of your mind, which many top level athletes feel is much more important. Some meditation techniques even involve combining sport exercises and meditation to reach higher states of consciousness.
So why not combine athletic training and meditation? Make a little meditative prelude to your sporting session by closing your eyes and doing some highly focused breathing. Exercise while trying to keep your meditative trance the whole time, clearing your mind of all distractions, fully concentrating on perfecting your techniques.
When done regularly, meditation can greatly improve your athletic performance by 'tuning' your body to peak at just the right time. Many athletes underestimate themselves and use only fractions of their mind's true potential. When you are at peak awareness, your mind is free of needless concerns and negative emotion, utilizing all of your inner resources optimally.
Adding meditation to your life can easily peak your mind's ability to focus, remain stress free, and have instant calm at all times during high pressure moments (during sports as well as during all other areas of your life).
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