Juve last night against Chelsea could suffer defeat very hard after the two goals scored in a few minutes and instead it has managed to overturn the result. This game teaches that the quality of the game without fighting spirit of the team is of little use. Combat is not a scientific term, but in my opinion clearly indicates the ability to play ball on ball consistently throughout the game. The second characteristic of fighting is the ability to play this way regardless of the outcome of the game, you play ball on ball when you win 2-0 but even when you’re losing 2-0. It expresses the conviction of being in the field with this attitude until the final whistle. The little combative teams can overcome this deficiency with individual actions of their best players and in this way can also win some games. Unlikely to repeat the results of this type continuously, because in football to win a championship or an international tournament counts the reaction of the team not only the inspiration of star players.
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Milan coach, Allegri, is put seriously in question in these days because the team does not score and lost two of their first three league games. It’s the same team that has sent away 5/6 players important players without replacing them with other top players. The Club is associated so other football clubs in thinking that the coach that in the two previous seasons won the championship and finished second, after just three games can be fired. If this is the system in order to overcome the difficulties it can be said that Italian football is now lost.
The profession of sport psychologist in Italy is not as widespread as one would expect for many reasons linked to our cultural backwardness both in sport than in the academic world. Among these reasons, there is one that concerns the lack of knowledge by managers and coaches of where and to whom to direct their offers of counseling psychology of sport for their clubs. Often the choice of the sport psychologist occurs through the direct or indirect personal knowledge. Everyone knows doctors, but no one would think to go to an orthopedic surgeon when needed instead of a cardiologist or viceversa. In many people’s minds is dominantt he idea that to work in sports is enough to be psychologists and not sport psychologists. The reaction of the psychologist who are offered this opportunity is immediately positive but shortly after he began his frantic search for a colleague who is sport psychologist to talk to and ask for advice on what to do. Result: the psychologist will present to the club a program that includes the implementation of skills that he does not have and will bring discredit on the sport psychologist profession. Personally, I often talk to coaches who told me: “Before you there was a colleague who has spent time doing observations and we never knew what was served,” “Just that we no longer need fill tests, which are useless, “” He always questions but never gave an answer. ” These are the most common comments I’ve heard and certainly start working in a context where the psychologist has this perception on the part of coaches is not easy.
Therefore I tell to managers and coaches to use Internet to find professionals who can also direct them to colleague in their geographical area, contact the Schools of Sport of the Italian Olympic Committee for indications, contact the Italian Society of Sport Psychology, contact the university teachers of sport psychology. If you believe that the sport psychologist is professionally useful to improve aspects of a sports organization, you cannot choose the first one on the street, because it is unlikely to be the right one. We live in a period of high specialization in all professional fields, including psychology. Do it!! Because only in this way we will acquire as sports clubs a competitive advantage in our sporting environment in terms of services and programs offered to coaches, technical team, athletes and their families.
It started by three weeks the Italian football championship, 1° Division, and there is already who smiles (Juventus, Lazio and Napoli) and those who have problems (Rome, Milan). All, however, have problems of stress. Juventus, Napoli and Milan will play as many games in the League and Champions League. Roma, Fiorentina, Udinese and Lazio want to win because their goal is t o be in the top four in the League. Most of the others because they will have to fight to stay in 1° Division also in the next season. There will be stressful for everyone, who wins and who loses, for the first and the last, for those who will achieve its goals and who will fail. Will, as usual, many coaches changed? Likely. Footbal creates stress for the visibility of the protagonists, the competitiveness of the matches, the high level of responsibility of players and coaches, the expectations of the sponsors, Clubs and fans. It is the only professional environment in which nothing is done to reduce the stress of those who work there. In this initial phase of the championship, my advice to coaches and players is to engage in following a program to reduce their professional stress , because I am convinced that this will allow coaches to be better leaders and players to relax and reinforce mentally to play at their best in this new season.
I am often asked to give some practical suggestions to reduce stress and anxiety produced by strenuous workouts, the desire to excel or expectations of the sporting environment and family. I will do it in this blog and others that will follow and I want to begin from an action that every human being is continuously without interruption: breathe. In general, athletes do not know, how many other people, perform a deep breath and especially ignore the reasons why they should. First, it must be said that a deep abdominal breathing can afford both to reduce the level of tension that is proof at that time as well as can increase the level of activation.
To breathe you have to take the air from the nose, initially fills the lower part of the lungs, making sure that the diaphragm moves down and this is the reason why the abdomen is out. Subsequently, the air occupies the middle part of the lungs, thus the lower ribs and sternum are raised; the thorax expands immediately after, when the air invades also the upper part of the lungs. Of course, there are not three distinct phases but a single rhythmic motion breathing. Hold the air for a few seconds in order to allow the lungs to absorb oxygen that you have just introduced. Finally, take the air out gradually from the mouth. We can start from the execution of 3 deep breaths in order to arrive to make 7/8. This exercise should be carried out during the warm-up and when you do the stretching. The purpose is to get used to perform properly and increasingly automated this exercise. It should be recalled that a breath of this type must have a duration of about 20 seconds, for which it will make 3 breaths in about 1 minute. If you want to improve the state of mental calm while breathing can mentally repeat the words as “calm … relaxed” or you can think of past experiences where it was quiet. Of course I’m talking about exercises to do for now in training in order to increase the self-control.
On the other hand you will have a higher activation state of mind if you are breathing as it has now been described, but with a little variation. When you have completed the inhalation phase you must hold the air inside and with open arms must bend forearms for 5 times ( corresponding to 5 seconds), and only at the end of it phase of exhalation start. In this way the movement of the arms acts as a pump that pushes with more rapidity oxygen throughout the body and at the end of a few breaths you will perceive clearly a greater sense of mental activation.
For seven years now, a growing number of General Mills workers have been practising meditation, yoga and so-called “mindfulness” in the workplace. And what began as a side project by one executive has transformed the culture of a Fortune 200 multinational. “It’s about training our minds to be more focused, to see with clarity, to have spaciousness for creativity and to feel connected,” says Janice Marturano, General Mills’ deputy general counsel, who founded the programme. “That compassion to ourselves, to everyone around us – our colleagues, customers – that’s what the training of mindfulness is really about.” The General Mills initiative is at the vanguard of a movement that is quietly reshaping certain corners of the corporate world. William George, a current Goldman Sachs board member is one of the main advocates for bringing meditation into corporate life, writing articles on the subject for the Harvard Business Review. “The main business case for meditation is that if you’re fully present on the job, you will be more effective as a leader, you will make better decisions and you will work better with other people,” he tells me. “I tend to live a very busy life. This keeps me focused on what’s important.” There are no reliable statistics on how many companies offer meditation in the workplace, but a quarter of large US employers have launched “stress reduction” initiatives, according and that number is growing steadily.
So it seems to be luck over the period of the guru screaming and survival training to learn how to beat the competition. We return to ourselves, to the improvement based on understanding and compassion. It does not mean slow down, but to be aware that in everyday life there are times to spend and others to recover. The programs for stress reduction have this regenerative function and maintain the focus on things that really matter at that time. There needs to be calm because the frenzy does not stimulate optimism rather depress it, leading to be in late or always feel at fault for something. In this difficult times we need to be optimistic and to reduce the stress caused by fear. Therefore, find the time to reduce stress and enlarge our mental limits.
We always talk about the contribution that women can make to leadership in sport. In Italy a few days ago broke a taboo and for the first time at the head of a sport federation, one of equestrian sports, was elected a woman, Antonella Dallari, owner of a farm, 47 years of Modena. It was time, congratulations.
Many speak of Coaching and often cause shouted, promising the moon after walking on hot coals. Coaching is a process of change and takes time. You do not change on a weekend but we may have insights into how we, and is a lot. We have to know that we can all improve, even if no one says it will be easy. If we are willing to accept this approach, then we can walk on this road led by a coach. Coaching in this sense allows us to find a concrete solution to the main questions that managers and young talent, athletes and coaches, team members and leaders, professionals and entrepreneurs. These are:
I want to do better rather than good
I want to do more with less
I want to make new ideas instead of always repeating
I want to convey energy and not resignation
I want to explore new ways without doing the same
I want to balance work and private life
I want to delegate rather than do it all alone
I want to encourage curiosity and not boredom at work
I want to listen without prejudice instead of thinking to be always right
I want to live in movement and not in a marsh
If you are interested in knowing more about this approach to change write me and I will give you more information
I think this is one of the most important challenges that It must cope with those concerned with the welfare of citizens. The Km is the lack of movement that affects about 40% of Italians and that is much greater if it were found only in adults. The too Kg is the weight that many children already carry around and adults too.
Numbers:21.9% of Italians do sport on an ongoing basis and 10.2% on a temporary basis. 27.7% is physically active. 39.8% is sedentary. Since 1997, there has been an increase of 5% of the physically active population. The frequency of overweight and obese children is highest at 11 years (29.3% in males and 19.5% females) than 15 years (25.6% in males and 12.3% in females). Young people of 15 years (47.5% of males and 26.6% of females) do less physical activity than boys of 13 (50.9% of males and 33.7% females. Minor daily intake of vegetables in South of Italy and among males. the percentage of population being overweight increases with age, from 19% between 18 and 24 years to more than 60% between 55 and 74 years, and then decrease slightly in older age (55.9% among people with more than 75 years). Overweight and obesity are more common among men than among women: 45.2% of men are overweight and 11, 3% are obese compared 27.7% and 9.3% of women.
Who is responsible to change for this situation? Any idea to not end up like in the movie WALL.E?
