Good risks are required for athletic success. This article will consider what prevents athletes from taking risks and how they can make a plan to increase their risk taking. No Time Like the Present to Take Risks It never feels like the right time to take risks because, well, there are risks to taking risks. […]
Mese: Ottobre 2021
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Controlling Emotions in Sport
Marc Jones, Staffordshire University Controlling Emotions in Sport Marc V. Jones Staffordshire University Emotions play a central role in sport performance. Accordingly, it is important that athletes are able to draw on a range of strategies to enhance emotional control. The present paper outlines a number of strategies based on Lazarus’ cognitive-motivational-relational theory of emotion. Strategies are […]
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HOW TO EMBRACE FAILURE IN SPORT?
I.G. 2018 As the saying goes ‘we learn from our mistakes’. Embracing failure is the reason why parents let their children fall down and get back up when they’re learning how to walk. It’s the reason why students re-sit exams, and it’s the reason why sports athletes have comebacks after major defeats. So important is failure to your […]
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Discussion
Various adverse neurological and psychiatric outcomes occurring after COVID-19 have been predicted and www.thelancet.com/psychiatry Vol 8 May 2021 ………..The data presented in this study, from a large electronic health records network, support these predictions and provide estimates of the incidence and risk of these outcomes in patients who had COVID-19 compared with matched cohorts of patients […]
I’ve noticed lately that my mind has been wandering a lot so I wanted to see how attention works and how to manage it better. It turns out a lot of us have wandering minds and struggle to stay focused. In fact, when we’re reading, our minds typically wander anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of the time. […]
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Mind-Wandering General Conclusion
(………….) The results of this project suggest that mind wandering is part of sport, as occurs in other areas of daily life. Accordingly, mind wandering occurs in a wide range of situations in sport and physical activity. Common features of many situations involved physical inactivity while coaches were talking, low arousal emotions, both positive and […]