Monthly Archive for December, 2021

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How boring are player complaints

Published on December 7, 2021 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Giovani, Mental coaching, Olimpiadi, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments

Trivial question.

“Why don’t the coaches teach the players to accept that they committed a foul?”.

Watching the champions matches you can see players who after the foul laugh at the referee who according to them would not have understood that there was no foul. Others who get angry against the referee’s decision. Still others who seem to swear that they were not understood. Others who simply tell the referee to go to hell. Others who “spark” each other out of an excess of testosterone.

These reactions hurt teams, are demonstrations of a lack of trust, and classifiable as childish. That being said, what is the lesson that coaches pass on. Do they educate their players to more professional behaviors? From what we observe on the fields, it would not appear that coaches perform this type of attitude correction on their players.

So will we be forced to continue to see these reactions forever?

I think so!

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Curiosity could be the winners’ secret

Published on December 5, 2021 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Giovani, Mental coaching, Olimpiadi, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments Tags: .

When the athlete but also each of us asks ourselves, “Will I make it through this performance successfully?” we can do so in two opposite ways. The first is that which arises from insecurity and anxiety that we are not capable enough and generates thoughts of excessive worry and dislike of ourselves. With this approach it is likely that the outcome of the performance will be negative. The second approach comes, instead, from the curiosity of wanting to see what will happen by performing at our best, if we can make the possible (winning) real (having won). This second attitude highlights the person’s patience in expressing an evaluation only at the end of the performance, paying attention to what needs to be done to achieve the goal.

The philosopher Michel Foucault illustrated this concept most clearly:

“Curiosity … … evokes “care”, the attention one pays to what exists or what could exist, an acute sense of reality, but one that does not freeze in the face of it, a readiness to judge strange and singular what surrounds us; a certain doggedness to discard what is familiar and to look at the same things differently, a going out to grasp what happens and what passes, a nonchalance with the traditional hierarchies between what is important and what is essential. I dream of a new age of curiosity.” (M. Foucault, The Masked Philosopher, in A. Pandolfi (ed.), 1998).

Curiosity should push us not to become immobilized or frightened in the face of reality, represented by performance and sporting hierarchies, and invite us to look at things differently and to be totally absorbed in our actions.

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Amazing Sofia Goggia

Published on December 4, 2021 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Olimpiadi, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments Tags: .

Sofia Goggia was incredible not only for the result but also for overcoming the fear that her injury brought with it. It’s not easy to do a sport as risky for your personal safety as the Downhill and go down with that quality and determination.

We all have to learn from her words: “It’s really amazing. I’m so happy, I just tried to ski hard and follow the lines I had in my mind.”

Sci alpino, Coppa del Mondo - Sofia Goggia vince la prima discesa di Lake Louise, avversarie lontanissime - Eurosport

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10 reasons to increase the young physical activity

Published on December 3, 2021 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Giovani, Olimpiadi, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Let’s remember why exercise is essential for the young development.

  1. It improves the cardiovascular system, so aerobic activity and its ability to circulate blood and oxygen has been used to explain improvements in brain function and cognition (increased capillary growth).
  2. Increased neural network due to greater diffusion of neurotransmitters.
  3. Growth of new neurons in areas of the hippocampus that promote learning and memory.
  4. In young people the greater the demands of school performance, the greater the need for breaks.
  5. Free, unstructured play reduces cognitive interference, promoting learning. More evident in children than in adolescents and adults (cognitive immaturity hypothesis).
  6. Affective relationships and collaboration with peers support learning and inhibit antisocial behavior.
  7. Gradual development of “executive skills” (response inhibition, memory, and decision-making flexibility).
  8. The amount of time children are involved in motor activity and sports is proportional to their school performance; the more time the greater the educational benefits for children and adolescents.
  9. An important consideration for school administrators is the impact of motor activity programs on academic achievement. Schools with more minutes of physical activity have higher levels of academic achievement.
  10. A program called “system-fit” that integrates age-appropriate physical activity is an opportunity to help children who can be defined as kinesthetic-student and children who do not adjust well to the school environment.

 

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Gratitude and solidarity: absolutely not trivial

Published on December 1, 2021 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Giovani, Mental coaching, Olimpiadi, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments Tags: .

Gratitude and solidarity are two values that are absolutely not trivial, indeed indispensable in any team. They represent a necessary factor to keep a team united, especially in moments of crisis like those Juventus is going through. If the head and the heart are the basic elements of the success of a group, the first concerns tactics and the second refers to the values that support a team. Putting the group before the interests of individuals, wanting to give back what the club has given is not rhetoric, nor is wanting to feel united in the difficulties of teammates, the coach and the team.

The sense of belonging is often associated by the rhetoric published in the media to the lack of pride of the teams and the lack of respect towards the jersey that you wear.

Instead, it is a fundamental concept underlying team cohesion in any organizational environment. Its relevance was focused on by former General Electric CEO Jack Welch, who to build a high-performance, world-class culture developed a performance-value matrix to guide GE’s rise. Welch’s matrix assesses people along two critical dimensions:

  • Performance: how well the person leads and achieves important results
  • Values: how well the person embodies and exemplifies the team’s core values

Welch and GE executives have been evaluating employees and managers along the Performance-Values Matrix for years to see how well they performed and how well they fit GE’s culture. As a result, any coach can adapt and adopt this practical and proven Values-Performance Matrix to evaluate, rank and coach team players.

“You never walk alone”  say at Liverpool … let’s think about it.

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