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Monthly Archive for August, 2012
When we say to someone who is stressed, we’re not certainly giving him a compliment, the fact we are saying that we see him/her suffering in some way. The most frequent answer we get is: “With the life I lead as I could not be.” Usually if you do not want to insist respond by saying, “Yes, you’re right, who is not stressed today, if you can at least try to rest on the weekends.” It would be best to avoid these dialogues, which only serve to remind us once again that there is nothing to do.
This is the attitude to change, we must not suffer and we have to give a positive meaning to our every day life, because there is not another one. How difficult it is to change attitudes, get out of this passive condition and start to live happier.
September for most of us, it’s back to work, start the schools, there is the return to our daily activities. It can also be the time to decide to live in a less stressed way, starting to appreciate and be more happy with our days and weeks.
During the Games to talk about stress performance means to understand the attitudes and expectations of all young people who are there in London committed to achieving their goals. The trap into which they can fall is to have their mind prisoner of the result to be achieved: win, podium, improve personal record or qualify for the next phase. Focus on the result to be achieved is the biggest mistake they can make, especially because it is not in the power of any person. The result is the effect of performance and this depends entirely on the athlete. No one can decide to win, everyone can decide to do their best. The first attitude creates an uncontrollable stress,while the second determines the degree of stress that is for everyone to give their best. Having this attitude oriented to stay focused on performance rather than the result is an essential step for anyone who wants to compete successfully. Otherwise the risk is not being able to compete at own level. The mental training is the way to learn how to develop this attitude effectively.
Sport doesn’t care where you’re from; if you’re a man or a woman, tall, thin, big or short. Sport doesn’t care how you got here, how much money you make, what you believe in or what you don’t believe in. It doesn’t care if you have two legs, one leg or wheels. Sport only cares that you’re here to take part and give your all to win. Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgYY5UrBcOs&feature=relmfu
The srudy of Malik Falkenmark and his colleagues of the Stockholm International Water Institute shows that food reserves are steadily decreasing, while the global population continues to increase: http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/SWW2012/. We must therefore change, becoming vegetarian because as outlined Umberto Veronesi: “We cannot use half of the cereals, and three quarts of soy products in the world to support the growth of grazing animals while a piece of humanity dies of hunger.” Are in fact 900 million hungry people and 2 billion malnourished ones. In addition, cardiovascular problems, diabetes and obesity already in childhood are determined in large part by this diet, that consists of too much food. It’s clear that in the West we often are sedentary, overfed and without the social support to change. Therefore, next to the radical change of diet, we must combine physical activity and positive social relations. Certainly, the genes of which we are provided give us a hand, but a life style based on the satisfaction of these three aspects will allow us to lead a healthy and positive lifestyle as long as possible.
Expectation to make a great performance is what worse can think an athlete. Expectations should be part of selfcontrol that an athlete must have on itself. The only expectation allowed is to know that you have to stay committed at your best but when you start you have to put aside any idea of the result and fight in every moment of the race, step by step, shot after shot, inch by inch, second by second. There is nothing beyond this and who is not trained in this goes back.
Capisco le leggi del mercato, ma che a due giorni dall’inizio delle paralimpiadi continui il silenzio dei giornali è scandaloso
The bad news are never alone, so in a few days we have passed from condemnation of doping of despair, Schwazer to the deception carried out in a scientific manner, Armstrong. Doping is a deception which makes it look real (a result), which instead is false, because it is determined by the use of artificial substances. The human being has always been deceived and, therefore the form that we call doping there will always be. The question is to ask to ourselves what to do, as well as increased penalties, to create a sport culture really based on competitiveness and not on a fiction of it. The question is: “How do you find the strength that provides the doping through the normal training of body and mind?” If we do not commit ourselves to work in this direction will always be the question on every win. We must learn to master the desire to win through workouts without tricks.
