Yes, Ravi, here is more info about the Russian method.

And I almost sure this will work. I've read somewhere that Russian sport scientists ingreated a creative visualization technology into the training schedules of Olympic athletes.

Russian scientists compared four groups of Olympic athletes in terms of their training schedules:

1. Group 1 = 100% physical training;

2. Group 2 - 75% physical training with 25% mental training;

3. Group 3 - 50% physical training with 50% mental training;

4. Group 4 - 25% physical training with 75% mental training.

Group 4, with 75% of their time devoted to mental training, performed the best.