Coaching goal: teach to react immediately to the bad momentum

To teach sport to young people who train several hours every day, it means teaching to face difficulties. Become an expert athlete is to know yourself at the best, and this happens only in situations that force us to be totally focused on the performances to be provided at any given time.

Those who practice a recreational activity have the goal to be immediately satisfied with what they are doing. Running in a park or have a walk in the mountains are made to personal choice and for the immediate pleasure that these activities will result, in any moment they can stop and then strat again when they want.

The athletes live a completely different situation, even if they carry out an activity that has been chosen and which provides satisfaction. The athletes are essentially the explorer of themselves. They must know and reduce their limits and works to reach the summit which will be able to gain through this exploration. They do not know a priori the result and even the point of arrival, assuming there is one. It has, in fact, to run the risk of failing while they work to be able to meet these expectations.

The athletes have developed this attitude towards sport when they know to be able to accept mistakes and negative moments. No one likes to make mistakes but they should know that they part of any performance. In those moments the goal is to provide a constructive response to the mistake. In those moments, the inner work is crucial, leading to park on one side of the mind what has just taken place, to refocus on the present.

Many athletes fail because they did not work enough in this work of re-focusing on the immediate future. In other words, they have not been trained to move from wrong to right to in the shortest possible time. So, training must be organized to develop this ability, otherwise the athletes will think that their limits are the mistakes. It’s not true! The main limit of an athlete is, however, not to show a fast and efficacy reaction to the bad momentum.

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