{"id":1988,"date":"2024-06-22T23:31:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T23:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/whats-the-psychology-of-momentum-in-sports\/"},"modified":"2024-06-22T23:31:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T23:31:30","slug":"whats-the-psychology-of-momentum-in-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/whats-the-psychology-of-momentum-in-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s the psychology of momentum in sports?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: The Conversation The unpredictability of sport is in many ways its greatest attraction, and unforgettable come-from-behind victories are especially captivating. During these epic comebacks, one team or athlete is generally said to have captured or capitalized on one of sport&#8217;s great intangibles: momentum. But what is momentum in a sporting sense? Why &#8216;the zone&#8217; and &#8216;flow state&#8217; are key Psychological momentum in sport refers to a functional overlap between two theoretical concepts: the individual zone of optimal functioning and flow. In other words, these are known as athletes being <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/whats-the-psychology-of-momentum-in-sports\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: The Conversation The unpredictability of sport is in many ways its greatest attraction, and unforgettable come-from-behind victories are especially captivating. During these epic comebacks, one team or athlete is generally said to have captured or capitalized on one of sport&#8217;s great intangibles: momentum. But what is momentum in a sporting sense? Why &#8216;the zone&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}