In this 2022 literature review, Fidare Stephen et al. emphasize the importance of visualization in the increasingly competitive world of youth sports. Some of their findings include:

• Sports have never been more competitive than they are today and anything that can provide an advantage should be pursued
• Coaches and trainers need to provide more assistance to help athletes bring visualization techniques into their routines
• Vision Prep Soccer provides players with that extra competitive edge and assists coaches and trainers in implementing visualization with their athletes

In a 2020 paper, Radu Predoiu et al. discuss how visualization works and some of the numerous benefits athletes gain. Some of their findings include:

• Visualization reduces the time needed to acquire different technical and tactical elements of a sport, and the level of preparedness for stressful situations is increased
• An athlete’s thinking becomes more disciplined, which increases awareness of the performed motor skills and makes it easier to achieve full potential
• Other intangible benefits of visualization include an increase in self-control, a reduction in fear and tension, and improvements in confidence
• We believe Vision Prep Soccer confers all of these benefits

In this 2018 research review, Jesmy Jose and Maria Joseph found nearly 20 studies that discussed various timeframes in which visualization worked and the circumstances in which it can supplement or replace real practice. Some of their findings are:

• Consistent training for 6 weeks or more improved physical performance of athletes in various sports, but psychological benefits were shown after just 3 days
• Visualization is a great substitute for physical practice when athletes are not able to effectively practice their physical skills (such as when fatigued, over-trained, injured, or weather prevents real practice)
• Vision Prep Soccer can be used both as a supplement to real practices and when practice isn’t physically possible

In this online article, Dev Roychowdhury defines visualization and discusses the best techniques for applying it in one’s training. Some of his conclusions are:

• Youth athletes get the best benefit when their visualizations are guided
• Athletes benefit more when they complete their visualizations in a calm and relaxing environment and include it as part of their pre and post-performance routines
• Athletes benefit from goal setting even more when their visualizations are integrated into the process
• Vision Prep soccer recognizes the importance of guided recordings for youth athletes and directly meets this need; in addition, our recordings offer a goal-setting process

In a 2025 paper, Yiran Liu et al. discuss their conclusions around how frequently athletes should visualize. Their findings state:

• Athletes who engage in imagery practice for approximately 10 minutes, 3 times weekly, over a span of 100 days produced the greatest performance gains
• Integrating imagery practice with additional psychological skills training surpassed the efficacy of imagery practice in isolation
• Vision Prep Soccer was designed to give athletes 5, 10, 15, and 20 minute recording options and includes numerous psychological skills recordings

We return back to the review by Fidare Stephen et al. to provide the research-supported best techniques for visualization. Some of those conclusions include:

• Be as specific and detailed as possible
• Engage all your senses
• Execute skills in real time
• Practice consistently
• Vision Prep Soccer was meticulously designed to achieve these outcomes; our guided instructions ask athletes to visualize what specific parts of their body are doing, imagine sequences at real gameplay speeds, and to practice multiple times over the course of a week