Monthly Archive for April, 2014

Bayern crashed against the wall

Bayern does not show committent. The offensive players did not reach the mid-field in the forse 45 minutes. You cannot win if your players has this attitude duri G the match. Opposite habitus showed Real Madrid since the beginning. If you do not thanks like a team you will crash against a wall.

L’intensità qualifica l’impegno

Spesso gli atleti ci dicono che loro s’impegnano al massimo ma che i risultati non arrivano, come è possibile? A mio avviso in questi casi, che sono frequenti, manca l’intensità durante le sedute di allenamento. Vuol dire che ci si allena ma non con la volontà di fare il proprio meglio ma più semplicemente per eseguire in modo corretto i compiti assegnati a loro, non è questo il modo di migliorare! Si migliora solo quando ci si impegna a dare il meglio di se stessi in ogni esercitazione altrimenti sarà solo un mediocre allenamento.

Per vincere non basta il talento

Vincere è un risultato veramente difficile da raggiungere e nonostante gli anni di esperienza professionale nello sport di vertice rimango ancora stupito di quanta energia molti atleti mettono nel boicottare il loro talento. Sono purtroppo numerosi i giovani bravi in uno disciplina sportiva, che nel momento di reagire alle difficoltà di una gara, non lo fanno e si abbattono sull’ostacolo. Che devono fare per migliorare. Spesso non accettano gli errori e sono poco disposti a quel lavoro mentale necessario proprio in questi momenti. Non basta il talento, ci vuole la voglia di pensare momento per momento, altrimenti si perde non la gara ma sopratutto la fiducia in se stessi.

The vital role of parents

Read these site “To small to fail” it’s about the parents’ role.

“Parents keep children safe and healthy – it’s in our genes to look out for our children’s well-being. We react instinctively when a child is in harm’s way. The more we learn about how children develop, the more we know about the crucial role of parents in those moments when a child isn’t in danger. Parents play a vital role in their children’s social and emotional development by providing quality engagement that stimulates brain growth and increases their learning potential. Those every day interactions are the keys to a child’s long-term potential.

Research has shown that meaningful family engagement—the amount of time parents spend talking with their children, reading them a book, cuddling them or asking about their day—has a direct impact on learning and motivation. Very young children thrive when their parents spend time talking, reading, and singing to them every day and when their parents remain calm during emotional outbursts or stressful situations. Older children benefit from parents who ask about their friends, establish a homework routine, and carve out quiet study time.

All children benefit when parents and caregivers establish routines in their home, whether around family meal times, bedtimes or bath times. Routines that begin early, in particular, can pave the way for habits that last into adulthood. A routine as simple as reading to a child before bed contributes to her healthy brain development and sets her up to become a successful, lifelong reader.

No matter the activity, parents play a critical role in their children’s growth and education from birth on, and help establish the emotional and cognitive foundation that their children’s lives will be built upon.”

The emotions might be teaching opportunities

Sport is an activity that tests the skills of young people in managing their emotions. In sports, you win and lose, you make mistakes easily and frequently, and for these reasons it is a situation that calls constantly even self-confidence. It is therefore important for every coach to learn to recognize the emotions of the athletes as a teaching opportunity. The errors they commit as well as new learning and the performances are the optimal situations to train them to handle the disappointment and anger rather than joy. The coach might be aware of the emotions of their athletes, understand the educational opportunities they represent, listen boys and girls with an empathic style, helping them to understand and explain what it happens and seek solutions possible setting the limits within which to find them.

Coaches who act in this way they get from their athletes better results than those who behave differently .

Complain and continue to make mistakes

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Today all to the Park and less sedentary

If we go every sunday to the park as today that it’s holiday we will be less sedentary

The calm workout

The calm workout  is a new holistic workout caring not only the body but the mind too. With an emphasis on mental wellness as well as physical.  Take Psycle, a new spinning gym, where classes take place in darkly lit rooms, with inspiring music, ballet moves and a meditative “free time” section in the middle of the session. Or Zen workouts including Cardiolates sessions, spinning + Pilates. In gyms like Third Space is possible to meet  ”wellness” experts,  ready to program individual sessions for their clients. The goal is gaining pace, with a calm workout, among them Spynga , spinning + yoga, and SoulCycle, holistic spinning class.

Book review: A Guide to Third Generation Coaching

A Guide to Third Generation Coaching

Reinhard Stelter

Dordrecht: Springer Science, 2014, p.254

http://www.springer.com/new+%26+forthcoming+titles+(default)/book/978-94-007-7185-7

This book talks about coaching from a societal perspective. Since the beginning coaching has been interpreted as a process to increase managers’ skills and in any case as a system to approach and solve problems. Third Generation Coaching   is oriented on values  and create meaning underlying aspirations, passions and habits. This concept remember me the Amartya Sen identity idea, when he explains that every day we are part of different groups and in this way we have a multiple identity, build on this different contexts and roles. Thus, Third Generation Coaching talks about our identity, view as interpersonal process continuously in movement. Coachees and coaches  live a space of self-reflection not to improve specific competences but to permit to the coachees to know better themselves and may be to see their life in a new perspective.  Really, this coaching vision is an invitation to change stride, moving to a different interpretation of our life.  For this reason Stelter underlines the main role played by values “as important landmarks for navigating in life.” Today where financial fraud in business and doping in sport are so diffuse, a changing process based on values and ethics became fundamental to guarantee social respect and freedom form illegal actions. In fact, Stelter developed this new coaching approach in a time where values are not very well represented in our society, where at the contrary every day the newspapers published news about bankruptcies or doping cases like the most famous is Lance Amstrong fall. The book talks about the necessity to build in professional or every life meaning-experiences, based on our past stories and the present in order to have a better future. Third Generation Coaching changed also the coach role, he/she became a facilitator of the coachee’s reflections concerning is cultural roots and social relations, very important because determining his/her confidence into the social environments. Third generation coaching proposes a form of dialogue where coach and coachee are focused on creating space for reflection through collaborative practices and less concerned with fabricating quick solutions. Aspiring to achieve moments of symmetry between coach and coachee, where their dialogue is driven by a strong emphasis on meaning-making, values, aspirations and identity issues. Coach and coachee meet as fellow-humans in a genuine dialogue. I can say that also in sport we assisted in an evolution of this kind in the program of athletes’ mental coaching. Till 10 years ago the programs for them were related almost exclusively to increase specific mental skills, to use during the most important events. At this approach, successively, has been added an approach more oriented to reflect about their life style, to the positive role the athletes can play in our society, to doping as negative value for them and for the society because based on deception.

Chilhood has moved indoors

In the last 20 years, childhood has moved indoors. Usually in US, boys or girls spend as few as 30 minutes in unstructured outdoor play each day, and more than seven hours each day in front of an electronic screen.

This change had a deep impact on the children wellbeing: increased obesity rates and pediatric prescriptions for antidepressants. More and more children are out of shape and stressed out, because they’re missing something essential to their health and development, that is to live in the natural world. It’s suggested to spend at least one hour a day outside in unstructured activities.