Imagine hitting a home run each time you are at the plate!
Then you wake up! With baseball playoffs now underway, it makes you wonder what some professional athletes have that most of us don’t. There are some God-given skills that some are just born with, but those skills need to be developed. Baseball and many sports rely on a complex set of traits for athletes to perform at their highest level. Each player who is serious about their sport practices to improve their performance. There are both physical, psychological and visual traits that lead to optimum sports performance. The psychological, physical and visual attributes of great athletes play the most significant role in their success. In community and high school sports, there is a lot of effort placed on the physical components to success, with little effort placed on psychology or visual skills needed for most athletes to reach peak performance. Most professional sports teams address these layers to maximize success. Teams hire psychologists and vision experts to maximize their team’s performance in addition to the sports trainers and experts in their field. The difference between seeing adequately and optimally can be the difference between a good and great performing player. The difference between 20/10 and 20/20 vision is the type of edge that professional athletes enjoy. If you enjoy sports, even though you are not a professional athlete, you could invest in your craft to reach peak performance just like the pros do. Since we are not sports psychologists, we will not be discussing sports psychology here; however, these resources are available elsewhere. What we will discuss is the Visual Edge the can be offered by maximizing your sight and how to be a more successful athlete through enhancing your vision.
The difference between seeing adequately and optimally can be the difference between a good and great performing player.
Sight in sports is much more than just seeing clearly. Vision is a complex act that involves focusing your eyes optimally, keeping your eyes in focus while tracking moving objects, and brain functions designed to accurately assess the information the eyes are providing. Sight is combining the clarity of the image your eyes gather with how your brain interprets what you are seeing. Our past experiences play a large role in telling us how to interpret what we are seeing. That is why two people can witness the same event and report differently on what they saw.
Sight in sports is much more than just seeing clearly. Vision is a complex act that involves focusing your eyes optimally, keeping your eyes in focus while tracking moving objects, and brain functions designed to accurately assess the information the eyes are providing. Sight is combining the clarity of the image your eyes gather with how your brain interprets what you are seeing. Our past experiences play a large role in telling us how to interpret what we are seeing. That is why two people can witness the same event and report differently on what they saw.
The best lenses made for sports help you to see well and provide safety to avoid eye injuries.
High definition sports vision should start with ensuring your eyes are seeing as clear as possible. The best lenses made for sports help you to see well and provide safety to avoid eye injuries. The highest-grade sports glasses available now offer digitally surfaced lenses that maximize peripheral vision and are compensated for the position of wear depending on the frame of the face. These lenses have a high grade non-glare treatment to maximize the acuteness of vision. There are also tints that can be employed depending on the lighting you are in and the sport you are playing that maximize contrast.
…professional baseball teams use this legal sport enhancing product called Visual Edge.
There is now a nutritional supplement scientifically proven to enhance contrast and improve sports performance. In fact, professional baseball teams use this legal sport enhancing product called Visual Edge. This formula would work with any sport that requires fast judgement of a small moving object (e.g., baseball, tennis, and racquetball.) This product works by providing special nutrients that are good for the eyes, which create increased contrast in sight when consumed. You may wonder why everyone wouldn’t want this clarity. We offer special testing in our office to see if you would benefit from this type of supplement. Please contact our office if you would like to know more about these products.
Visual training is a specialty within optometry that deals with many types of functional aspects of sight. As I mentioned earlier, vision is much more than just seeing clearly. Vision includes skills such as accurately tracking while keeping a moving object in focus. There are training procedures that can enhance the eyes ability to track moving objects and accurately localize them for the sport you are in. Depth perception and spatial localization of objects as well as hand eye coordination all play a role in many sports and there are training procedures that can improve these skills.
Every person who enjoys participating in sports makes the decision about how serious they want to be about their craft. Maybe we can’t hit a home run every time at the plate, although, enhancing your sport in ways such as maximizing your sight can make a difference in your performance in meaningful ways. That is why professional sports teams have a staff optometrist. We are here to not just help you see your best and maintain your sight, but also to enjoy life to its fullest whatever your interests may be.