How Sports Vision Training Can Help Athletes?


Sports Vision Training focuses on improving the visual skills of an athlete. If

an athlete has a deficit or weakness in any visual skill, this will impact their physical

performance.




Sports Vision Training training focuses on improving the visual skills of an athlete. If

an athlete has a deficit or weakness in any visual skill, this will impact their physical

performance.


Sports vision training helps an athlete improve their visual skills so they can

process information faster, make more accurate decisions and see things without

looking. An athletes sports vision training program must focus on the athletes'

visual demands and ensure that any visual deficits are also addressed. We know

that the brain makes decisions based on the information available to it. 


However if the information coming from the senses is not telling the full story, you are basing

your movements and decisions on misinformation. In a sports setting that means

mistakes are made, often when the stakes are high and play is fast and pressured.


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