Category: Sport
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MAKING MY PEACE … with skipping for healing
MAKING MY PEACE … with skipping for healing … finding rhythm and reclaiming ground … Boxers are perhaps the best-known skippers. Muhammad Ali’s light-footed skipping was legendary, showing a combination of focus, coordination, grace, and fun. Boxers, dancers, astronauts, and athletes often skip for physical preparation, and also to build agility and rhythm. America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) found that skipping is 68% more efficient than jogging in improving…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with putting my hands up, up in the air
Making My Peace … with putting my hands up, up in the air Putting your hands up, up in the air, two hands above the head, is a symbol of joy, especially at concerts and celebrations and especially amid many like-minded people. The message is one of embracing fun. Sometimes putting your hands up…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with screamers at sporting events
Making My Peace … with screamers at sporting events While volunteering at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, I heard a lot of screamers. Screaming, yelling athletes. No, not in rage, and not yelling at someone else, but to psych themselves up to achieve their best, to scream in exhilaration at scoring a…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with learning life’s lessons while watching the Olympics
Making My Peace … with learning life’s lessons while watching the Olympics The Paris 2024 Olympic Games is not only about sport – it’s about life’s lessons. Observe what a winner does. Observe what a loser does. But not everything in sport is about winning and losing. I observed handball players fight tough…
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MAKING MY PEACE … with optimism and pessimism in athletic performance
Making My Peace … with optimism and pessimism in athletic performance The Paris 2024 Olympics is about to commence, and athletes are either ready or not. Can they do anything now to improve their athletic performance? Sports psychologists say yes! Researchers of a 2018 study at four universities in Spain maintain that optimism…