In sports you are only as strong as your mind, for the mind can push even an injured body to victory. The mind is also the key when it comes to helping your body recover faster. Psychological skill training is the process that involves training athletes to learn psychological skills that help in the process of relaxing and regulating their mind.
Due to the lockdown, it’s getting harder for everyone to stay motivated and continue learning new skills. This is especially true for young footballers and to address this need, RFYS has been enabling online education for its young athletes and their coaches. The webinar series is covering a range of topics across football training & tactics, nutrition, mental conditioning, and much more.
A warm up is a set of systematic preparatory exercises and movements done before a workout or competition in order to get the body into a position to perform optimally.
There are some days whose significance cannot be understated and one such day is the National Sports Day which is celebrated across the country on August 29. It is impossible to talk about the day without talking about Hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand Singh, popularly known as "The Wizard" for his extraordinary goal-scoring feats. He is widely regarded as the nation's greatest hockey player of all time whose feats included leading India to three Olympic gold medals in the years - 1928, 1932 and 1936 and scored over 400 goals in his career spanning 22 years.
With studies revealing that 80% of the general population suffers from Low Back Pain (LBP) at least once in their lifetime, the condition has cemented its position as the leading injury globally. What’s even more baffling is that as you read this sentence, 18% of the world’s population is experiencing LBP RIGHT NOW.
The criticality of low back pain cannot be stated enough and it is of utmost importance for any athlete to know about it! Dr. Chandan Poddar, Musculo-skeletal & Sports Physiotherapist at Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, takes us through the details surrounding this crucial topic. #Athletes #athletics #sports #sportseducation #RFYS#Letsplay
Periodisation is a means of organising and managing training to provide a greater likelihood of successful performance through year on year improvement and planned management of peak performance.
The Olympic Creed mentions: “The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.” #Letsplay
Achieving sporting excellence isn’t just a month long quest. It is years of hard work coupled with precision planning. Now, while many athletes are more than willing to put their bodies through the grind, it’s in the planning where we are often found lacking.