Monthly Archive for December, 2019

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How much it’s easy to be choked by the situations

Published on December 9, 2019 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Giovani, Mental coaching, Olimpiadi, Stress and Tennis. 0 Comments

It often happens that athletes are distracted by some event outside them and without to show the readiness to react immediately. In tennis it can be the wind, in sailing the weather, in opposition sports the determination of the opponents, in football a goal taken more for bad luck than for anything else.

The question I ask myself is: how is it possible that athletes who spend so much time to training, do not think they should spend a significant part also to understanding these eventualities? I know I don’t like the wind, the weather of today, the play of that opponent but why don’t I put myself in a position to find the solutions to be adopted to deal with those situations before the competition starts? Why do athletes so often allow it to happen, without taking immediate responsibility for dealing with them?

It’s nice to take responsibility for our mistakes, but it would be even better to understand and react immediately!

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Understand Juventus in 10 points

Published on December 8, 2019 in Allenatori, Calcio and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: Juventus, Sarri.

I want to try to put together the problems that Juventus, as a team, is facing.

It won the last 8 Serie A championships
The Champions League is its black beast.
It’s a team made up largely of champions
Cristiano Ronaldo, the planetary star of football and bearer of formidable economic interests for Juventus SpA, plays it.
It has always had coaches (like Trapattoni, Capello, Lippi, Conte and Allegri) with a concrete attitude, very assertive and aimed at winning starting from strong defenses, a midfield centered to play for the champion of turn (Sivori, Platini, Zidane, Pirlo and so on) until an attack that always lined up the strongest champions
Juventus does not appear determined on the pitch, it does not play with the intensity that instead shows the team which wants to win
Is this a difficulty due to a superficial approach by the players? Do they expect to win with little effort?
Is the coach too focused on wanting to prove that his playing module is the “right” one? While he’s less concerned with how to change what’s happening on the pitch?
The coach seems less determined in (public) communication than his predecessors at Juventus. Does he show this personal trait differently from others, or is this his weakness?
How does he match the main problem that all coaches have: wanting to prove that he is right and at the same time wanting to win. In the first case, his method dominates, while in the second case on the top there is the adaptation to the Club philosophy the team culture and the players characteristics.

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Calcio Insieme for young with motor and intellectual disabilities

Published on December 6, 2019 in Allenatori, Calcio, Generale and Giovani. 0 Comments Tags: AS Roma, Calcio Insieme, disabilità, Roma Cares.

Calcio insieme

Un programma di calcio integrato per giovani

con disabilità motorie e intellettive

ALBERTO CEI, MICHELE ROSCI, DANIELA SEPIO

Università San Raffaele AS Roma Accademia di Calcio Integrato

Convegno Nazionale Scientifico AIDEE 2019

La Disprassia

Roma, 17-18 Novembre 2019

Calcio Insieme, è un progetto promosso dalla Fondazione Roma Cares, Onlus legata al più ampio contesto di responsabilità e sostenibilità sociale della AS Roma e dalla Asd Accademia Calcio Integrato, il cui obiettivo è lo sviluppo di una cultura dell’integrazione e dell’educazione ai valori dello sport attraverso il calcio.

Obiettivi - Studiare gli effetti di un programma di allenamento basato sull’insegnamento del calcio, su giovani con disprassia e con disturbo dello spettro autistico (ASD) promuovendone le competenze psicosociali, motorie e calcistiche. Nessun altro studio è stato condotto su sport di squadra e a nostra conoscenza i dati a disposizione provengono da sport individuali (Bremer et al., 2016; Luiselli e Cei 2017; Rivilis et al., 2011)) se non sono addirittura sconsigliati (https://dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk/dyspraxia-children/pe-lessons/).

Metodo - 30 partecipanti sono stati sottoposti a valutazione motoria pre/post. Valutazione psicosociale effettuata con interviste pre/post a genitori e insegnanti e con una valutazione svolta sul campo e continuativa nel tempo da istruttori di calcio e psicologi dello sport.

Risultati – Abilità motorie: differenze significative rispetto alle valutazioni iniziali in 6 prove su 10. Abilità calcio “correre con la palla”: il 39,3% non mostra alcun miglioramento, il 28,6% raggiunge un livello intermedio e il 10,7% un livello medio alto di abilità. Interviste ai genitori e insegnanti: percepiscono un incremento delle abilità psicosociali e motorie. Tale incremento differisce in base alla gravità del disturbo del giovane.

Conclusioni - Si conferma quanto emerso dalle rassegne su persone con ASD per cui la dimensione motoria migliora con percorsi specifici di apprendimento sportivo, ma a ciò si aggiunge che l’organizzazione dell’allenamento in attività di gruppo e individuali favorisce lo sviluppo delle competenze psicosociali. Il ridotto numero di giovani con disprassia richiede che i risultati dovranno essere documentati su una popolazione più ampia. Gli sviluppi futuri del progetto andranno verso una distinzione dei programmi di ricerca e di allenamento, con modelli specifici di intervento per le diverse diagnosi coinvolte.

Per sapere di più su Calcio Insieme:

Cei, A., Franceschi, P., Rosci, M., Sepio, D., e Ruscello, B. (2017). Motor and psychosocial development in children with autism spectrum disorder through soccer. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 48, 485-507.

Cei, A. e Luiselli, J. (a cura di) (2017). Sports, exercise and physical health among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 48, 473-568, Special Issue.

Cei, A., Ruscello, B., e Sepio, D. (2019). Summer camp for children with ASD and parents perception of changes in psycho-social skills. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 50, 162.175.

Cei, A., Sepio, D., e Rosci, M. (in press). Sport, calcio e integrazione: L’esperienza dell’AS Roma con i bambini con disabilità intellettiva. Torgiano: Calzetti e Mariucci.

If you want to know more: send me mail for articles pdf.

Ulteriori informazioni: www.accademiacalciointegrato.com

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Few questions at sport psychologists

Published on December 4, 2019 in Generale, Mental coaching and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: competenze, domande, psicologo, psicologo dello sport.

A few questions to sports psychologists, which will be discussed in the next future, in the meantime find your answers:

Why should an athlete learn to relax?
Why are routines useful if no one teaches them to athletes in training?
Why is it better to think that we will be able to achieve our goals but it will still be very difficult?
Why do you have to learn to put the maximum of attention even in boring workouts?
Why isn’t winning everything even if you compete to win?
Why is it useless to ask for more attention?
Why can’t you motivate someone to do something?
What makes a top-level athlete realise that you are a top-level psychologist?
What is excellence for you?
Can you distinguish the needs of a good athlete (national level) from a better athlete (international level) and a champion (top level in his sport)?
How good do you want to become as a sports psychologist and how will you know that you have succeeded?

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Personal trainer’s mistakes

Published on December 3, 2019 in Allenatori, Generale and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: errori, fitness, personal trainer.

As a personal trainer, which of these mistakes do you make most often?

Narcissist - He pleased to talk to the client, he uses the charm he feels gifted to bewitch. He puts a lot of emphasis on speaking and choosing words, often difficult or for experts.

Aggressive - She expresses herself by assuming that she is right and it is obvious the customer must become a member, because the proposed method is infallible. Speak in sentences and exclamation points

Funny - He is more at ease if he establishes from the beginning a friendly relationship with the customer, uses jokes to arouse hilarity, wants to be sure about the success of the customer by making the proposal elementary

Scientist - She wants to convince with objective data of the results. Not interested in understanding the client’s motives and goals. She is self-confident and proves it with documented arguments

Guru – He believes this system as the Fitness Revolution of which he is the master who introduces the student to a new dimension of life

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Personal trainer’s skills

Published on December 3, 2019 in Generale, Mental coaching and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: Corpo, fitness, mente, personal trainer.

The personal trainer is now a professional figure well established in the world of fitness and promotion of active living. It is a different role from the coach and requires the development of specific skills that can be summarized as follows.

Social and Communication – You’ll be dealing with a wide variety of people. Purpose: to get the most out of each individual. Use your social skills. Cheerful and extrovert, so customers warm up quickly. Simple and precise, to persuade to follow session

Empathy - Each client comes from different backgrounds, faces challenges and lives different limits, physical and mental, to become physically fit. Connect personally with these challenges by listening to them and understanding their feelings. Watch the life through their eyes, understand their goals. Show genuine interest in them

Motivation and leadership - One of the main tasks is to provide reasons for motivation. You must be able to teach to be motivated. Important is the ability to motivate yourself every day and push you beyond your limits.

Planning & Organization - Work with many different customers. You need organization and planning to draw up unique plans, maintain awareness of the goals achieved and proceed.

Professionalism - Competence in proposing a training program. Professionalism is evident in dress and language. Friendly and sincere in the relationships with customers, be fit in order to demonstrate that you practice what you preach with great benefit on your body and mind

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Be subjected or control?

Published on December 1, 2019 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Giovani, Mental coaching, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments Tags: atteggiamento, Brad Stevens, controllare, subire.

“You got a choice – you either come in & let your circumstances control your attitude – or you let your attitude control your circumstances.” Attitude is critical to overcoming adversity.

@BradStevensTeam @Celtics

Risultati immagini per brad stevens you got a choice - you either come in

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The mistakes teach how to win

Published on December 1, 2019 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Giovani, Mental coaching, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments Tags: errori, perdente, vincente.

Made a mistake does not mean I am a failure as an athletes. Making a mistake is a specific behavior or event. Telling that I am a loser is a global self-assessment. Telling, I lost this competition is an objective evaluation and open the door to do better the next one.

Too often the athletes say themselves:

I made several mistakes → I failed the race.→ I am a loser.

A right assessment could be:

I made several mistakes during this race → I lost it → I need to talk to the coach (or mental coach) and make a plan to avoid these mistakes.

Do this exercise: Think back to a time wen you lose a competition. Please, rewrite the story so that you don’t condemn yourself as an athletes? Be aware how changing the narrative you tell yourself can improve your confidence.

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