Apolo Ohno's sports psychologist used methods such as badminton games, questioning, meditation, breathing exercises, positive self-talk, and visualization to improve his performance.

“so this this guy named David Cresswell who was pretty young at the time I think he was actually still studying he was going to how did you meet him he was brought in as an intern to basically look over a lot of the younger athletes and he also was doing a sport psychology kind of residency program at the Olympic Training Center and so he was so pro about you know all these different things and he started asking me we would play badminton like for fun I would make mistakes like over and over again and he would notice that I was kind of getting down on myself and he would ask me these like little questions Oh what happened there with that shot you know and I I this guy was so young I was like I can't respect this guy and I just didn't recognize the time and he was basically trying to figure my how I like what made me angry and the inconsistencies that would happen on the court were a direct representation of active what was happening in sport and so that was my first real foray into understanding and so we did everything from like you know meditation exercises to breathing exercises to writing down positive self the basics right positive self-talk manifesting what you want and then he began my real true process of visualization”