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Coaching is much more than a list of exercises well chosen

Published on March 4, 2019 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Giovani, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Orlando Pizzolato, in the latest issue of the Italian journal Correre, writes the coach must go beyond the usual act, overcoming the mental myopia that leads to accept passively the training rules and its applications. We should instead call into question our own ideas opening the mind to new solutions.

I agree with this goal because as I wrote in my book “Training to win”:

“train does not mean teach a technique and an athlete does not only practices sport techniques, although it may be complex and requiring a high level of competence. Coaching  means to use  cognitive, emotional and motor skills to teach/learn to know and to do what needs to be done to achieve optimal performance levels. Of course, in each sport the  technical movement is the visible component of the sport performance, but there is much more behind the excellent performances, because running an almost perfect action requires an optimal level of technical mastery, control and fitness all expressed in mental actions. Behind these actions there is therefore the overall ability of the athlete:

  • making the right choices (select actions appropriately to situation)
  • with all the time he/she wants (act quickly without showing in a hurry)
  • read the race situations (recognizing what’s going to happen and act in the best way)
  • adapter/himself  to the conditions of competition (changing the race plan according to what happens)
  • be ready and calm (run only the information that serve with no apparent effort)
  • to accomplish their work (to act in the way that best meets the goal of the race)
  • manage the competitive stress (maintaining the effectiveness of the benefit in times of increased competitive pressure)

Elite athletes also know master seemingly opposite conditions such as, for example, be accurate and fast, stable and flexible, responsive and reflective.

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The numbers of the marathon in Italy

Published on February 3, 2019 in Allenatori, Corsa, Generale and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

The strenuous physical activity tends to decrease in most animals with increasing age. In humans this is not always true, because it is noted today a significant increase of individuals who continue to remain physically active even when they are older.

In recent years the worldwide success is experiencing the marathon (42.195 km) is a demonstration of this track.

  • In Italy 2018, 37,874 individuals whose 6,872 are women have been finishers.
  • It is increased the number of runners who run the marathon with times from four hours and thirty minutes: this year were 9508, corresponding to an increase of 25% compared to 2017.
  • In our country, just 43 athletes have raced in less than two hours and thirty equivalent to a decrease of 23.2% compared to 2017.
  • Even the group between three hours and three hours and thirty decreased of 28.6% and it corresponds to 6,553 individuals.
  • The largest number of finishers was between three hours forty five and four hours: 4,752 (- 5.8% compared to the previous year).
He’s probably right Daniele Menarini explaining these data of the increased of the slow-running as linked to the diffusion of fitwalking and nordic walking. The marathon continues to be a challenge with oneself also at low speeds. Accepting this approach can lead to a conception of this race as a motivating experience even for those who do not run (or walk) with the logic of time but to live an experience that as a citizen is still extreme. Menarini suggests at this regard to increase the maximum time to accommodate more participants, following the spirit of what is happening in Japan. Murakami Haruki, the writer-marathoner, reminds us:

“In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.”

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To walk or run15 minutes every day improve the children life

Published on October 15, 2015 in Generale and Giovani. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

We do so few things to promote the movement amog the children, that news like this one become immediately virals and demonstrate how it could be easy to do much more with only the good will.

“As son as the children at one primary school in Stirling hear the words “daily mile”, they down their pencils and head out of the classroom to start running laps around the school field.

For three-and-a-half years, all pupils at St Ninians primary have walked or run a mile each day. They do so at random times during the day, apparently happily, and despite the rise in childhood obesity across the UK, none of the children at the school are overweight.

The daily mile has done so much to improve these children’s fitness, behaviour and concentration in lessons that scores of nursery and primary schools across Britain are following suit and getting pupils to get up from their desks and take 15 minutes to walk or run round the school or local park.”

(The Guardian)

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Lizzy Hawker ultramarathon mentl coaching

Published on May 16, 2015 in Corsa, Giovani, Mental coaching and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Interview to Lizzy Hawker, five-time winner of the 103-mile Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc and former 24-hour road running world record holder . (by The Guardian)

What do you think makes you good at running ultras? Have you got something different – or have you managed to connect to something everybody has inside them? For me, endurance just comes naturally. It’s always been a way of life – from before I ever got into racing and long-distance running. Even when I was a child I preferred to walk than to take the bus – to cycle rather than drive. That’s always been there. That’s probably different for most people. With ultra and endurance sports the mental side is really very important, and that’s also part of who I am. I guess we’re all looking for something in life – I find something through running.

What’s the best thing about running for you? I think I just like moving – but under my own power – and of course I love the mountains. The love of running is a little bit separate from that because I’ll run wherever I am, whether it’s pavement or trail. Maybe it’s the physical movement … and the mental freedom.

If someone asks you for a training tip, what do you say?
With long distances, it’s really about staying in the moment. If you can do that, and have the confidence to try a long run, then our limits are never where we think they are. You realise you can go beyond what you thought was possible for you.

When you’re running these enormous distances you must hit ‘the wall’ numerous times. How do you deal with that? I think it’s matter of knowing that there will be times when you feel great and there will be times where you feel really, really not great. It’s one of those truths about life – that nothing lasts, everything is impermanent – so it’s just knowing that those bad patches are going to pass and you’ll come through the other side and trusting in that.

If you stand on the start line of a 24-hour race and think about how long you’ll be running it’s almost inconceivable. You have to take it moment by moment. It’s the same in a 100-mile race – if you think about the finish at the start then you’re probably not going to make it – but if you take it step by step, stage by stage, then you realise it is actually possible to run that far. If I have a race strategy it’s just to run the best that I can at any point in the race.

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The first paraplegics to run the Rome Marathon using the exoskeleton

Published on March 19, 2015 in Corsa and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

Carmine Consalvi and Nicoletta Tinti face a new sport challenge: are the first complete paraplegics to attend the Rome Marathon, using a wearable exoskeleton. Sunday, March 22, Carmine and Nicoletta will walk viale delle Terme di Caracalla, for about a kilometer, showing how the exoskeleton has revolutionized their lives. The initiative, sponsored by the Saint Lucia Foundation in Rome, aims to get to know this technology, which promises to change the daily lives of so many people today forced into a wheelchair.

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Book review: Correre è una filosofia

Published on May 13, 2014 in Corsa, Generale and Libri. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Correre è una filosofia

Gaia De Pascale

Ponte alle Grazie, 2014, p. 188

www.ponteallegrazie.it

I liked the book because it’s a journey through the many reasons and emotions explaining why we run  that eventually leaves without a definitive answer, because everyone finds his personal motivation within himself. De Pascale illustrates how this action seemingly meaningless, ” I run because I like it ” is in fact the answer the runners provide more frequently when someone asks “Why do you  run?”  It’s in fact rooted in the depths of the human being since the origin. The book takes us for a walk from Chinese mythology,  to the Greek and Native Americans by showing how running  fulfills an important cultural role. Another strong theme of the book  regards running and freedom. A sign of freedom for those who are in prison, as the champion Henry Rono falsely accused of robbery that runs almost on the spot being in jail, escaping from the situation of segregation. Or how Cavallo Blanco, a young Californian , “sick of running” in extreme landscapes, who had this nickname from the Tarahumara, Mexico’s Indian population, able to run dozens of miles every day with the foot sandals with soles made ​​from the tires of trucks. Running as redemption is that of Marco Olmo, the great Italian ultramarathoner, who stunned the world with his exploits. Running as a biological necessity, our ancestor Homo Sapiens has been defined in terms of  long distance runner, to hunt and run away from animals. This book is about these stories and many others, written in a pleasant and documented way, leaving the readers the freedom to choose the definition of running who prefers for themselves.

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Obama and Biden jog at White House against children obesity

Published on March 8, 2014 in Giovani. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden showed their support for First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign by having a brisk jog around the grounds of the White House. A video of their exertions was released in support of the campaign, which aims to tackle the issue of childhood obesity.

 

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Kathmandu Marathon – ‘It’s like running with a cigarette in your mouth’

Published on September 27, 2013 in Corsa and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

“Last Saturday, my friend Richard and I were brave enough to enter the Kathmandu marathon, or rather the half marathon as doing the full distance in this mad traffic would have been suicidal…

It was definitely done in the finest Kathmandu style! When I arrived at the marathon registration desk at 5.30am last Saturday – I was already half an hour late – the person who was supposed to take my details was nowhere to be found. “She will be here in a minute,” said race director, Nilendra Shrestha, who had taken on the brave task of organising the marathon in the Nepalese capital for the seventh time in a row.

More than 6,000 runners were expected to participate in the event, which featured a full marathon, a half-marathon and a 5km-fun-run, however, a lot of the aspirants must have overslept, as the stadium – the start of the race – did not seem very busy that morning.

“Every year we want to block the roads, but it’s just not possible here. We don’t have alternative roads and for our citizens and drivers using the roads, this is still something they are not used to,” explained Shrestha, who once lived in Germany and ran across what used to be West Germany in the 1980ies. “Well, it’s certainly a lot easier to do something like this in Europe.”

I must say, I do take my hat off to the organisers; putting together an event like this in Nepal must be somewhat of a nightmare. Kick-off was supposed to be at 6am, which seems very early in European marathon terms, but here in Kathmandu it means you might actually have a chance to beat the traffic. Well, that’s what I thought. Being a good and punctual German, I walked towards the start at about 5.58am, however, there was nobody to be seen. Not one single person was ready to start at 6am. ‘Oh well’, I thought and ambled back into the stadium, where people were still chatting, registering, stretching or just hanging about.”

(By Billi Bierling, journalist and climber, read the full article on her blog)

It's still fun though!

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“Run, Don’t Walk.” “Don’t Run, Walk.”

Published on April 23, 2013 in Corsa and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .
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.

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After the bombs, how to restart to run together?

Published on April 16, 2013 in Corsa, Generale and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

The marathon is a sport event that brings people together, spectators and athletes, in the desire to spend a day of joy. For many running the marathon is the realization of a dream, it’s the expression of their vitality, charged of personal meanings that at Boston join the celebration of Patriot’s Day, the beginning of the war of independence of the colonies American by the British Empire.

Read more on: http://www.huffingtonpost.it/alberto-cei/dopo-il-terrore-di-boston-come-riprendere-a-correre-insieme_b_3092934.html?utm_hp_ref=italy

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pgYY5UrBcOs 

 

 

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