Reply To: Balancing energy between rehearsal and performance

[Noa Kageyama]

Hi Augustas,

I’m not sure if you’re in the habit of napping, but a lot of NBA players nap as a regular part of their game-preparation routine. The league office apparently knows not to call them at a certain part of the day because they know they’ll probably be waking them. I wonder if this might be one thing that could help with your situation as well?

I think another thing that might help is to take it easy in your dress rehearsal. Where you avoid using too much energy (both physical as well as mental/emotional) in your run-through. Divers, for instance, will even deliberately mess up a little thing in practice dives to make sure they don’t “use up” their one good dive in advance of the competition. I don’t think you have to deliberately make mistakes, but do you think it would be possible to give a half-intensity performance at the dress rehearsal?

Noa