Paralympics have taught me that we all have a second life ahead.
Nobody said it was easy,
It’s such a shame for us to part.
Nobody said it was easy,
No one ever said it would be this hard.
Monthly Archive for September, 2012
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In what appears to be a shocking development for guide Guilherme Soares de Santana, Brazil’s Terezinha Guilhermina won the women’s 100m gold in London.
The competitive anxiety is a state of mind that any athlete lives before and during the competition, and not just those who are struggling to achieve an absolute level. It’s enough to participate in a local contest or to be one of many who run a marathon to feel those same emotions that seem unique to the international level athletes. The anxiety felt by all those who attribute relevance to the competition they face, it is a psycho-physiological reminds us that we are ready to compete and it is the moment to increase this state of readiness to act. When this condition becomes excessive for the individual, placing her, as it has been said, outside of her optimal emotional condition will have the effect of inhibiting the performance. To quote with the words of everyday psychology, “Okay to be tense but we must never lose self-control.”
The purpose of education to develop the skill to relax iis to improve the athlete’s self-control to reduce those emotions that hinder learning and act negatively on performance. In this way the athlete acquires attitudes, ways of thinking and feelings appropriate to the task. Moreover, the experiences of self-control acts indirectly to stimulate personal confidence and to encourage concentration. For example, the association between a deep breath and mental rehearsal of an action technique, as an high jump, put the athlete in a state of greater calm and at the same time promote the concentration on the task. Relaxation is a condition that everyone knows and helps to recover not only from anxiety but also from the physical and mental fatigue, this through the creation of a state of calm.
Relaxation:
- It ‘s a process of letting go – The trainee guides himself through the mental repetition of short verbal formulas, to reach a state of mental and physical relaxation.
- Represents the opposite of the action – Athletes benefit more from relaxation exercises during periods of higher intensity training, to recover the energy needed to conduct daily workouts.
- It’s acquired through everyday training – Anyone can learn to relax, they must just train in a constant and regular way. The process of learning this skill requires to practice every day for 10 minutes.
- It determines a state of well-being – The athlete learns to achieve a state of well-being that lasts even after the exercises, so as to deal more calmly his days.
- Promotes faster recovery from fatigue – Sports that rely on repeated trials in the same day need to recover quickly from fatigue at the end of each test. Many athletes make use of relaxation techniques as a way to not continue to be attached to the performance just ended and recover from the stress of racing.
Returned to work one begins to think again to restart the physical activity that most people leave during the summer. For those who did not move, the secret lies in gradually. It is as if the body is aroused from sleep, for this reason we have not be in a hurry or to stress it with efforts at this time exhausting. It’s much better to start with workouts short and moderate. The goal must be the persistency in time of physical activity whether it be running, swimming, cycling or whatever. It is not important to run today 1 hour but to achieve this maybe in two months. The gradualness is the basic principle to be observed. It has to be applied to adults who pass the from the condition of sedentary to the physical activity, you should be aware that it is not important “to do so much” in the first week to prove to himself and to others that in the end I was not so out of shape but it is instead relevant to continue to be active even after six months. The same concept applies for the individuals trained. Now the sport in Italy it is mainly practiced by adults from 40 to 60 years old. We are not teenagers, recovery times are much slower and the body is aging. Therefore, to start gradually allows the physical apparatus to regain day-by-day movements known and to reach the specific activation to the activity that takes place. This simple thing is the most difficult to do. I would say that does not let anyone, including me. This is because we should think but we do not do it and let ourselves be dominated by passion. We run or swim or play tennis because we like it, without being forced by coaches to follow a well-defined program as it should do athletes, and thinking “so I’ve always done it this way”. For many people problem is not the performance, we know that we can train better, but we are happy with what we do. The problem is the age that at some point asks the bill and then asks you if you want to continue to do as you’ve always heard that you should have. If you take this road someone’ll look wiser, but you know that it is only out of necessity and certainly not by choice.
You can only control your own performance.
The former Formula 1 driver has won the race of handbike H4 . “I gave my best and it was enough to set everyone,” said Zanardi commenting on the race. “If will I continue? First in the next two days there is the road race then I do not know – he added – in any case I cannot live without sports. I consider myself someone who has had so much in life and I continue to add. Of this I can only thank the Goddess of luck. “
We can learn much from his words.
Every day in the newspapers there is important information on what is the better way of life to be conducted to improve our standard of living. It is also increasingly clear that this lifestyle is connected positively to the care of the natural environment. Let’s talk about attitudes and behaviors that are already implemented in Italy by millions of people, for example, there are more than 5 million of vegetarians and 25% of the population practices some form of physical activity. The issue is that groups are too few in number, while on the contrary the obese are increasing and not decreasing the number of smokers. In essence, we all know what we should do to live better, but we don’t it. The State does not deal with these issues and his only action is to increase the price of tobacco products and it is willing to do it with drinks that contain too much sugar. I think the movement of the “sport for all” should deal with this phenomenon in a primary, since “more movement for all” would also involve an increase in other positive factors that determine well-being. It ‘s a matter which concerns not only the sports organizations but must also involve those of doctors and psychologists. In Italy there have been experiences of this kind but it is not to continue in this way because this way of being must be spread everywhere. Otherwise, as always, who can invest economically on their health will continue to attend sports clubs and SPA, while the majority continue to be prey to the advertising and its stress will lead them to be getting worse.
Alan Oliveira’s wonthe 200m and Oscar Pistorius, predestined to win it, is opened a discussion on the correctness of the length of the blade of his opponent. The Brazilian has indeed used blades a few inches longer than those of which he had served until recently, while remaining within the limits set by Regulation Paralympics. Pistorius says that the greater length of the blades has provided a significant advantage to Oliveira. Beyond tof the opportunity to do now this battle of the blades, these statements seem more due to non-acceptance of defeat and of no longer being the only athlete in the world to this time. In case Pistorius posed the question about the value of the blades. If they really provide an advantage it should not be allowed to compete with the able-bodied athletes and even less with those who run with a single prosthesis. These are issues that should be dealt with beings outside of competition controversy and in the field of scientific research applied to human movement.
