This is football: 10 minutes at the end of the second half put the Real in a position to hope to do the third goal in the last minutes. The Real did not play with this intensity in the other minutes of the game. It played the first 15 minutes as Real and the last 10. This is the problem physical and mental focus.
Monthly Archive for April, 2013
Very well Real Madrid in this first 15 minutes, showing will as needed. They must continue to be fast but more accurate. Very good the Borussia counterattack. 63% Real Madrid possession ball but no goals.
After 30 minutes the match is boring, Borussia is always very well in the defensive actions. Borussia looks more than eleven. Ronaldo looks distracted and not committed. Who is the Real leader? May there is not this night.
Twenty years ago today, something happened that changed the digital world forever: CERN published a statement that made the technology behind the World Wide Web available to use, by anybody, on a royalty free basis.That decision, pushed forward by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, transformed the internet, making it a place where we can all freely share anything and everything—from social media updates, through streamed music, to YouTube videos of cats. It has fundamentally shaped the way we communicate.
From: http://gizmodo.com/twenty-years-ago-today-the-world-wide-web-went-public-485593843
The two matches that Barcelona and Real Madrid will play will be a measure of their “will to win.” The team’s will is the power to choose and implement actions suitables to the achievement of certain purposes. Only at the end of the two matches we will know who won but since the beginning we can know who fights to win. For teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona the attitude with which they will begin the game will be relevant, opponents will never have the perception that it will be easy to go to the Champions League final. That’s why they should enter into the field with the will to win despite the very negative result of the first match. This is the Everest they have to climb: play to the best of their abilities and win, knowing that it would be much easier to play a poor game in terms of pride and will and not qualify. These challenges are almost impossible as it is to climb Everest without oxygen, but someone did it.
Coaches, sport administrators and parents must increase their ability to identify, understand and respond to the needs of young people whose enjoyed the trust. Why it should no more happen experiences like that of the Italian Olympian athlete Alex Schwazer.
Read more on: http://www.huffingtonpost.it/alberto-cei/perche-molti-atleti-scelgono-di-non-doparsi_b_3161051.html?utm_hp_ref=italy
Doping dominates the media because it’s too common in sports. Only in the last days the most sensational news:
- sentence of 3.6 years to Italian Olympian athlete Schwazer,
- The U.S. Department of Justice calls the damage to Lance Armstrong. The former cyclist, if found guilty, must pay a fine of $ 150 million
- U.S. Olympian sprinter Crawford was suspended for two years from competition
- Sheikh Maktoum’s 15 horses were found positive for doping and their coach, Al Zarroniwas banned for eight years
- Spelman College has abandoned competitive sports also due to the spread of doping and corruption
The first news is that Jonny Wilkinson is passionate about quantum physics. “All my life I have been obsessed with achieving perfection and was disappointed. Until one day I started looking for another way to get a different perception of the world and my work. First of all, I turned to Buddhism (…). And shortly after I found out that there were ties between my work and quantum physics. “In particular, to have fascinated Wilko is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The German scientist said that in certain fields natural laws do not lead to a complete determination of what happens in space and time, the occurrence depends form the game of chance. “If even in quantum physics not everything is controllable, Wilkinson must have thought, why should it be rugby? Better to relax.” There’s a first level that you can handle: the ball. If you kick the ball a hundred thousand times, in the end I can reach the same result in the game. And little by little I feel I can control everything. Then there is a second level, in which many things are inscrutable, in which another part of me is called into question, the part about instinct, deep emotions. And that’s where I can really be myself, connect to the world, and even learn something new.” So it turns out that, paradoxically, for Jonny the kick is the least interesting of rugby. At one point, describes him as “a work from postman.”
The choice of Beverly Tatum, president of Spelman College, quit the sport business to invest in the well-being of the students through the dissemination of various forms of physical activity is undoubtedly a revolutionary choice that does not give priority to the development of the absolute sport performance but physical and psychological fitness. This choice responds to the rule that the sport/physical activity is for everyone, not just those who choose it as the main activity of their lives. I think the time has come to say again that sport is the only way to lead a physically active lifestyle and to combat the problems and diseases as a result of the movement absence. And then it is the best thing that the School promotes less athletes but more healthy and active students. 
The Wellness Revolution American starts from Spelman College in Atlanta, where the president Beverly Tatum has decided to drop the “business sports,” the great national championships in football, basketball, baseball, track and field to return to the true physical activity, investing activity that cost very little and make a lot for their impact on health and well-being. In one of the oldest US female university in Atlanta have made their appearance courses in pilates, zumba, yoga and martial arts. But the college led by Tatum is not the only one: to choose the less expensive and polluting sports there is also a group of other universities, the New York City College of Technology to the University of Maryland: an experiment that could soon turn into a real new revolution. In her college the 80 athletes cost $ 900,000 per year, which if they were distributed among all the students would allow all to have daily access to courses of physical activity. It’s the defeat of gigantism of the university sport and points out that the fight against doping, bullying of the coaches and the costs of this type of sport is unfortunately only effectively abandoning the exasperate competitive sport. And as noted by Federico Grappling on www.Repubblica.it “no known cases of yogis still ruined by steroids.”
President Beverly Tatum says the school decided it was time to change its focus.
We have to ask ourselves: What is the cost of the program and who is benefiting? How many people are benefiting? Is the benefit worth the cost?Tatum went on to say that the goal is to positively impact the health issues that African American women have faced:
We know that 4 out of 5 women of African descent [are] overweight or obese. We know that black women are twice as likely to develop Type 2 diabetes. We know that black women over the age of 20—something like 40 percent or higher—already have hypertension, high blood pressure.
It’s a move that makes a lot of sense. Sure, intercollegiate sports can be an important part of the college experience, but in this day and age when 70% of adults in our country are overweight or obese and over 25 million people have diabetes, it’s time for some creative solutions.
To do that, Spelman now offers a campus-wide health and fitness program. Through this, all students can take part in weight loss programs, exercise at the college gym, Zumba, dance classes, and more. Already, more than 300 students are taking advantage of this every day.
In what they call a “wellness revolution,” Spelman’s site explains their goal (as taken from an article by Tatum):
The need is urgent, and it is our population — young black women — that is among the most at risk for negative health outcomes. Committed to educating the whole person, mind, body and spirit, we have an opportunity to change this epidemic. Ending intercollegiate participation may seem counterintuitive, given our focus on physical activity, but instead of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars transporting a small number of athletes to intercollegiate events, we will be investing those dollars in intramural programs and wellness activities that can be sustained for a lifetime.
Of course, not everyone thinks this is a good idea. Some of the athletes are upset, and even threatening to transfer to other schools. But, Spelman is the first school to drop NCAA sports in years, and it’s a move that is re-prioritizing the way we look at things.
Tell us what you think. Is this a good idea?
If you’re a runner, you might have noticed this surprising headline from the April 5 edition of the Guardian: “Brisk walk healthier than running—scientists.” Or maybe you saw this one, which ran in Health magazine the very same day: “Want to lose weight? Then run, don’t walk: Study.”
Dueling research from rival academic camps? Not exactly. Both articles described the work of a herpetologist-turned-statistician at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory named Paul T. Williams, who, this month, achieved a feat that’s exceedingly rare in mainstream science: He used exactly the same dataset to publish two opposing findings.
Read the article on: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/04/run_
