Is There a Strategy That Elite Athletes Use?

Luke Akins and Joan Benoit-Samuelson are obviously elite athletes. By their employing a psychological technique that the rest of us can also use, you call it narrow focus. What we found is that in fact they reported that it took 17% less physical exertion to walk the exact same distance when they were narrowly focusing their attention. We thought, I wonder if we can teach these people the strategy that elite athletes use. Can we design a set of instructions that people could hold on to in their own mind?"