This is not an essay. This is not an argument. This is just a note to myself and everybody else to pursue this line of thinking further, and also to share my very slight enthusiasm about discovering it. It sounds like a productive approach: the relationship between hope and burnout. I haven’t really read the […]
There’s no avoiding it any longer: I have burned out. Burn out is not the same as overtraining, although it has direct and indirect relations with the “underperformance syndromes”. The burn out syndrome is a psychological state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion. I like Maslach and Leiter’s description of it as “an erosion of
My objective in posting this very interesting drawing (unfortunately not mine, and I can’t find the author to give him credit) is to stress the reasons underlying the “construction” of each body type. In a strictly semantic perspective, both (as everything, even the sedentary body) are “body – building” – strategies that lead to the
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This video touches me deeply. After I got back from Atlanta, in the emptiness in which I found myself here, I watched it every single day. I even downloaded “Written in the Stars” to my ipod. I listen to this song when I need an extra drive to my training. Not because of the song,
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More on my own hybrid training and how it is periodized. If you look at my table with five categories of training components (powerlifting, weightlifting, kettlebell, bodyweight training and “other”) it will look like a sort of game with random dice throws. It’s not. This is a table I designed for myself in which I
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Stress e performance: a maior parte da pesquisa em psicologia esportiva relacionada a stress e performance diz respeito a lesões. Há estudos relacionando fatores psicológicos que vulnerabilizam o atleta a lesões e também estudos sobre as reações à lesão. A tríade do “medo do fracasso”, “perda de controle” e “inadequação social” são a tônica da
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Stress. That’s the bottom line after endless tests and clinical evaluations. In the end, vulnerability to injury, problems with recovery from injury and staling in pre-competitive preparation stem from stress. But where does stress come from? Unfortunately, the literature on sports psychology is mostly restricted to collegiate Olympic athletes and focuses on injury specific events.
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