true it hurts! A strong statement and certainly unpopular in a world aimed at mythologizing the phenomena competitive sports, which increasingly tend to gravitate around the concept of "business".
The competitive spirit, intent to churn heroes of our time, is often shown in advertisements so distorted.
performance anxiety and competition in the athlete generates a lot of stress both physically and emotionally, and today it is scientifically known that stress is the number one enemy of our immune system. The physical skills are often taken to excess and extremes through hard training sessions and sometimes exhausting, leading, long-term wear on the tissues involved.
How well you know your body and mind are two interdependent aspects of the same unit, and therefore any physical stress it is a psychic, and vice versa. Under these conditions, it is not difficult to find classic pathological conditions of the sporting world racing: anorexia, bulimia, bigoressia.
is worth spending a few words about the new "bigoressia" (from "big", big) that is depopulating between young aspiring body builder: look in the mirror and see a small, too small, too skinny, have an obsession to increase their muscle mass, to expand more and more, obviously trying to make up for any lack psycho-emotional and socio-relational.
And as a chain of events that follow a law of cause and effect, everything goes to lead one of the greatest scourges of modern day world of sport: doping.
And in addition to the doping itself depopulate the high-protein diets, dieting DIY and all the counter products such as vitamins, nutritional supplements, energy drinks, protein bars and miraculous tablets that certainly are not healthy and that lead practitioners Sports Young and old alike, toward a kind of behavioral psychology related to the philosophy of doping. "
All this has diverted attention the real purpose of the practice of sport should have. The sport, or more correctly, the motor activity is a powerful tool for health, for the prevention of many diseases and to achieve physical, mental and social well-being.
But how to implement this change of direction?
From antiquity to the present day has always understood the importance of exercise and has always sought to establish the criteria of effectiveness, which could bring him on the path of health and wellness. . .
Hippocrates: "If we are unable to provide people with the right amount of nourishment and exercise or physical defect or in excess we found the road to health. " (460-377 BC)
Plato: "the lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, on the contrary, the methodical movement and exercise the conservation and preservation." (428-348 BC)
Joseph H. Pilates: "Physical activity is forced into a stressful and harmful to the body and mind, as much as it does not move at all ... Not well planned and executed with precision in a balanced sequence has the same value of hours and without contortions forced roughly. " (1883-1967 AD)
World Health Organization Health: "Health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental and social."
Today's sports psychology offers a model of wellness (physical, psychological and socio-relational), designed to develop an education designed to raise awareness of the value of the body, understood as an expression of personality, as a means of relational communication , expressive, operating beyond the sterile consumption patterns imposed by today's society that has an urgent need to appear completely forgetting the deeper need that is related to the Self.
In this way, the movement becomes a wonderful means of education health for all individuals of all ages.
Scientific experiments have shown the best qualities of intensity, duration and frequency of exercise:
should carry out physical activity between 60-80% of VO2 max for 30-50 minutes, 3-4 times a week .
In general, activities that meet these guidelines are those belonging to the category of the footing, from the lightest to heaviest, the walking, jogging and running, ie those activities that refer to the so-called "light jog."
Alongside this activity of aerobic, there is a diversity of activities anaerobiche, da poter affiancare, che preservano e mirano al raggiungimento di uno stato di benessere psicofisico, primo tra tutti lo Yoga, ma anche ad esempio il metodo Pilates, o comunque tutti quegli sport praticati a livello dilettantistico che ci piacciono, che ci divertono, che ci mettono di buon umore e ci fanno star bene, allontanando da noi lo stress e non causandolo!
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