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Tutto viene dalla mente

Tutte le cose originano dalla mente. Azioni ed eventi dipendono in larga parte dalla motivazione. Apprezzare l’umanità, la compassione e l’amore sono i punti chiave. Se sviluppiamo buoni sentimenti, indipendentemente dal fatto che il nostro campo sia la scienza, l’agricoltura o la politica, poiché la motivazione è così importante, tutto migliorerà.

Dalai Lama

 

Immagina e tira

Conoscere il tipo di tiro che vuoi fare e impegnarsi a realizzarlo è importante tanto quanto la qualità del tiro che sei capace di realizzare.

Se non hai il volo della palla e il punto di arrivo nella tua mente, stai semplicemente tirando e sperando.

Risultati immagini per Visualise your shots like Nicklaus

Mental coach e baseball

Nel baseball USA, i mental coach che una volta erano visti utili solo per “i deboli di mente”.

Ora sono considerati essenziali.

10 indicatori di salute per le nostre strade

Mi stupisco sempre di come sarebbe facile cambiare il nostro stile di vita socialmente orientato alla sedentarietà. Altri come in questo nel Regno Unito sviluppano una cultura differente e provano a cambiarlo in uno stile di vita socialmente orientato al benessere che viene dal movimento.

  1. Pedestrians from all walks of life – London’s streets should be welcoming places for everyone to walk, spend time in and engage in community life.
  2. People choose to walk, cycle and use public transport -Walking and cycling are the healthiest and most sustainable ways to travel, either for whole trips or as part of longer journeys on public transport. A successful transport system encourages and enables more people to walk and cycle more often. This will only happen if we reduce the volume and dominance of motor traffic and improve the experience of being on our streets.
  3. Clean air – Improving air quality delivers benefits for everyone and reduces unfair health inequalities.
  4. People feel safe – The whole community should feel comfortable and safe on our streets at all times. People should not feel worried about road danger or experience threats to their personal safety.
  5. Not too noisy – Reducing the noise impacts of motor traffic will directly benefit health,improve the ambience of street environments and encourage active travel and human interaction.
  6. Easy to cross – Making streets easier to cross is important to encourage more walking and to connect communities. People prefer direct routes and being able to cross streets at their convenience. Physical barriers and fast moving or heavy traffic can make streets difficult to cross.
  7. Places to stop and rest – A lack of resting places can limit mobility for certain groups of people. Ensuring there are places to stop and rest benefits everyone, including local businesses, as people will be more willing to visit, spend time in, or meet other people on our streets.
  8. Shade and shelter – Providing shade and shelter from high winds, heavy rain and direct sun enables everybody to use our streets, whatever the weather.
  9. People feel relaxed – A wider range of people will choose to walk or cycle if our streets are not dominated by motorised traffic, and if pavements and cycle paths are not overcrowded, dirty, cluttered or in disrepair.
  10. Things to see and do – People are more likely to use our streets when their journey is interesting and stimulating, with attractive views, buildings, planting and street art and where other people are using the street. They will be less dependent on cars if the shops and services they need are within short distances so they do not need to drive to get to them.
Risultati immagini per 10 Healthy Streets Indicators

Lo stile di leadership di Ferguson

Rene Meulensteen  was a key member of Sir Alex Ferguson’s first-team staff at Manchester United for six years. Here he talks about Ferguson’s leadership style

Vision

The ultimate aim was to win, but Sir Alex wanted to win in a certain style. I can remember him bringing me into his office when he’d made me first-team coach. He had a flipchart and said, ‘listen, Ren – I don’t need to talk to you about how to run your sessions, you know all that. But I’d like to reiterate what I want to see. Possession is important, but always possession with a purpose. When we attack I want to see pace, power, penetration and unpredictability. These are the four things you must instil in the team in every single training session.’

And he was always a big advocate of youth. That meant investing in youth facilities and policies, but also giving opportunities. If ever he had chance to bring a homegrown player into the first team, he would do it.

Delegating

The manager achieved the highest level of management – he delegated. He was overseeing it all, he always stayed in control, but he gave us the freedom to do our jobs as well as we could.

Creating the right environment

There was something else, which I only really realised afterwards: not once did I ever feel any level of pressure, not in the six years I worked for him. I never felt ‘I’m under the cosh here’ or ‘the manager’s not happy with this’. That takes top-drawer management, to make everyone feel that comfortable. We had some tough moments but never got carried away. We were able to very quickly see it in perspective and move on.

Always adapting

Things change … He had this ability to adapt and evolve, which is rare, maybe unique, when you think how long he had been there and how much success he had had.

Being decisive

If a difficult decision had to be made, he would make it … He was never afraid to make the big calls.

Belief

He always said, ‘our approach is 75/25 -75% about us, 25% about the opposition. Because we are Man United.’ It was about always reinforcing how good we were, how strong we were.

Humour

The key to working with such high-profile players is to inform and facilitate. In training, you’re not telling them every step they should make, you’re showing them the options. You back it up with video footage – ‘this is what I talked to you about, this is what I meant’. And you let them evolve it.

If one thing stands out from my time at Man United it was the amount of laughs we had. We laughed every single day. Sir Alex had an unbelievable sense of humour.

+ età + attività fisica

Un nuovo report prodotto da Sheffield Hallam University, ukactive and DataHub ha messo in evidenza che in relazione all’allungarsi della vita delle persone, si  dovrebbe diventare più attivi con il trascorrere dell’età. Nel 2030 in Gran Bretagna le persone con almeno 60 anno saranno 20 milioni. Il sistema nazionale sanitario ha previsto che si potrebbero risparmiare 8 miliardi di sterline se gli over 55, che attualmente rappresentano il 31% della popolazione, praticassero attività fisica in modo regolare.

Naturalmente non è solo una questione economica ma di miglioramento del benessere individuale e sociale. E’ necessario creare degli spazi di attività fisica nei ritrovi pubblici e programmare azioni da svolgere nei quartieri di residenza delle persone.

Bisogna anche prevedere istruttori di fitness che siano anziani, così che possano dimostrare ai loro coetanei che è possibile essere attività a qualsiasi età.

Servirà un impegno significativo da parte del sistema sanitario nazionale per diffondere questo stile di vita attivo attraverso azioni concrete nelle città. Temo che questo approccio culturale sarà solo pura fantasia per l’Italia e che, come per altre situazioni, questo cambiamento avverrà solo se le associazioni non profit e le organizzazioni sportive in modo autonomo dallo Stato s’impegneranno a sviluppare questo tipo di programmi.

 

 

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LeBron James: i proprietari squadre NFL hanno una “mentalità da schiavisti”

In the NFL they got a bunch of old white men owning teams and they got that slave mentality,” James said. “And it’s like, ‘This is my team. You do what the f— I tell y’all to do. Or we get rid of y’all.’ ”

“I’m so appreciative in our league of our commissioner [Adam Silver], … He doesn’t mind us having … a real feeling and to be able to express that. It doesn’t even matter if Adam agrees with what we are saying, he at least wants to hear us out. As long as we are doing it in a very educational, non-violent way, then he’s absolutely okay with it.”

“I am very educated about what I believe in and I’m not doing it in a violent way,” James said. “I’m not knocking on your door saying, ‘Listen, I’m kneeling today and if you don’t kneel with me, I’ll knock you the f– out.’ But you know people go crazy when things are done outside the box. People don’t know how to react.”

#Atleti top #Natale > probabilità di ammalarsi

English Institute of Sport (EIS)  ha distribuito agli atleti del Work Class Programme un pacco contenente informazioni sulla salute e e prodotti per la prevenzione per aiutarli a combattere i germi invernali e a rimanere sani durante il periodo delle feste.

Secondo un’indagine condotta da EIS gli atleti di elite hanno quattro di più la possibilità di ammalarsi durante il periodo delle feste. Ciò sarebbe dovuto al break  dagli allenamenti che determinerebbe un leggero rilassamento nella loro dieta, all’igiene delle mani e alla routine dell’allenamento,  determinati da un aumento degli eventi sociali e all’esposizione ai germi. Queste situazioni potrebbero influire negativamente sugli’allenamenti di gennaio.

Anita Biswas, il medico che ha guidato il progetto ha detto ” Per gli atleti è importante rilassarsi durante le vacanze ma in passato abbiamo visto che molti atleti che si sono ammalati in questo periodo o che sono tornati ancora ammalati”.