Athletes With A Natural Sense For A Sport

The next similarity is having the passion for the game. We all have passions in our lives, although many of us might not be clear with that passion yet, many athletes have found their passions When athletes have the passion for the game it can move athletes through tough times and stay hungry for the next game. Passion gives athletes a reason to work hard and be the best player they can be. With a passion, athletes have specific targets to shoot for. According to Dr. Stankovich “Many years ago it dawned on me how important it is in life to have a passion and purpose — to be dedicated to the nth degree, and to have specific targets to shoot for in the big picture of life. I have learned that without true passion (also loosely known as intrinsic motivation), it is extremely difficult to truly reach your full potential in life.” Although it is debatable wither passion can be taught, passion can be looked for.

Her event is a very demanding event. She is obviously a well motivated athlete if she is contending in this event. An 800 meter run is literally a run from h-e-double hocky sticks where your whole body is on fire by the end of the race. By participating in this race the runner must be ready to put everything they have into it. It requires both mental and physical stamina. I trained for it for 1 week 1 time in high school, that ONE TIME was plenty for me to realize I wanted no part of this

I had a personal connection with this passage as I am a runner myself. The feeling of jumping out of the blocks is adrenaline charged. It is exhilarating and nerve-wracking at the same time. To getting to the last corner, the last 50 meters, is where it’s so painful you just want to quit. You want to stop. But you continue to push yourself until you get over the finish line. As you get over the finish line and congratulate your opponents, you want to do it all over again. To have your leg and passion taken away from you is something I would never want. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone because it takes away so much, just like it did for Jessica.

Motivation in sports is why people do what they do. It is also the direction and intensity of one’s effort and determination to achieve. The more motivated one is, the more likely one is to succeed.

Some people believe that dedication, persistence, and time people can accomplish any goal. Everyone should have goals when striving to achieve a specific task. Goal setting is used by top level athletes, successful business man, and achievers in all fields. A wise athlete once said, “Without time and effort put towards ones goal for the sport, you are nearly wasting your time and your teams time and you will never achieve ones goal for that

It is my job as a coach to help develop athletes physically, psychologically, and socially while helping them have fun by playing a sport. I will do this by being enthusiastic and having a positive attitude in practice, games, and while not coaching. This cooperative approach to coaching will create a sense of community within the team I coach, and the athletes will feel more welcome to discuss their thoughts, ideas, questions, and concerns with me. Creating this setting and relationships with athletes will only benefit the team by creating a team culture necessary for the well-being and success of high school sports’ teams. Success in sports means accomplishing goals set by the team, not winning. Winning is important, but just striving to win is even more vital toward the success of teams. As a coach, I will also be a motivator for athletes. Athletes will see me come to practice with a positive attitude, displaying my passion. This is the beginning of how I will motivate athletes. Motivation starts with my attitude, and athletes pick up on this. In order to motivate and want to be motivated, there must be a reason, a why? I will use the teams’ goals they will set, in order to motivate them to give their best effort in order to achieve success by reaching their

As bubbly as she is fast, Morgan Mitchell, age 21, is following in the footsteps of her idol, Cathy Freeman, and running in the elite 400m and 4x400m relay. Whilst not always associating with her outstanding running ability, she was always known for her incredible athleticism. As a kid, Mitchell used her inherited skill from her basketball-star father, Walter, and excelled within the game of netball. She was described as a “talented player, who was always full of energy”, and pursued the sport all the way into the under 19 Australian netball squad. It was in the same year that she made the change to athletics and, as a result, competed in her first World Championship in Barcelona. Mitchell insists she has a torn love between

As a casual reader of the sports section of this newspaper, you come across many articles depicting the triumphs of local athletes. However, very rarely do these articles describe the actual athlete behind the success. Athletes come in all sorts of sizes and shapes. They range from the incredibly talented to the horribly uncoordinated. Some are great teammates while others would rather be a one man team. Certain athletes seek out attention from the people around them while others are modest and stay in the background. The fact of the matter is that there is a wide spectrum of different types of athletes that exist in this world and no two athletes are exactly the same. However, each can be put

I would consider myself to have been a very committed athlete in high school because I worked my behind off training for every season. Leaving my blood, sweat and tears on the track, not walking off of it until I felt I had accomplished what I set out to do. We don’t just run, we work. We work on speed, endurance, strength and technique. We work on teaching ourselves how running is mostly about mindset rather than a physical thing. We do this exercise where you run a 400 meters telling yourself you’re a brick, sounds kind of dumb, I know. But after you run another 400 meter telling yourself you are feather, telling yourself you’re like Mayweather “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Without even realizing it, even after running the first 400 and being dead tired, we realize our times for the second lap were faster than the first! You have to tell your body what to do and be mentally in control so when you’re on your final 200 meters you can push yourself to limits you didn’t know you had. You will find very few track athletes who actually enjoy running themselves to death on a daily basis, but we do it because when you cross the finish and look up and see you name on the score board in a top place, you will want to relive the moment over and over again because it is absolutely priceless. Then when I received the letter telling me I had been offered a scholarship to run and jump at a D1 school, all the hard work I had been putting into this sport over the past four years felt completely worth

Many times the men had stressful lives outside of running; they would use running to get away from the stresses of life. Not only did they overcome mental challenges, but also physical challenges, which were a constant struggle. One quote in the novel that shows this is when Roger Bannister said, “but feeling rejuvenated. He needed to reconnect to the joy of running, to get away from the tyranny of the track.”(14) To emphasize the mental challenges they faced Wes Santee shows a perfect example. Wes Santees father did not support his running career and believed he should help his father out on their farm in Kansas. Running was freedom to Wes due to the amount of stress his father put on him about maintaining their farm. If Wes did not succeed in his races like his father hoped, his father punished him. These actions drove Wes to become a better runner and he eventually overcame the mental barriers set by his father. Each man worked to achieve his goal and that meant doing track workouts. Many track workouts for the men were grueling and strenuous this is an example of physical challenges they faced. In the long run, the workouts got them to their best performance. Each of the men endured training throughout their childhood and young adult years to train their bodies and mind to be the best they could

The time and effort I have put into each and every day to shape who I am displays my dedication. Growing up, I had a vision of who I wanted to become because of the influential people who surrounded me. As my current chapter is coming to an end, I realized I obtained my goal; I have managed to play every sport that interested me. My goal led me to play my three favorite sports, all four years of high school. Along with my athletic abilities, I have managed to maintain a spot in the top ten percent of my class, which made me eligible to participate in National Honor Society.

In the story she says that many people call her the swiftest thing in the neighborhood, which shows that people think she’s really fast. Also, in the story it says, “ You can see me training on running at any time of day.” This also shows that she trains hard to get what she wants. The thought I have about this is she has the right to say that to the girls who were mean to

Athletics has played an instrumental role promoting success in all branches of life impacting my performance in school, work and other life facets. Involvement in athletics taught me the value of commitment allowing me to play in Division 1 Women’s Soccer while attending the University of Washington. As a former student athlete, I have been winning and losing my entire life developing my own resilience and tremendous work ethic to work with others toward a common goal. My drive spills over into my professional interactions and career aspirations allowing me to connect

In earlier days sports psychology was mostly concerned with developing assessment methods that would identify those people with the potential to become serious superior athletes. Today the focus is on psychological training, exercises that strengthen the mental skills that will help athletic performances on the path to excellence. These skills include mental imagery and focus training. If an athlete is serious about becoming the best he or she can possibly be, the most essential ingredient is commitment to practice the right things. It takes incredible commitment to reach the top: a commitment to rest and train the body so it can perform under the most demanding conditions and a commitment to train the mind to

Motivation is crucial for an athlete in order to want to win. It is hard to want to win if you have no motivation. The main aspect of motivation in terms of the self-determination theory is intrinsic motivation. The self-determination theory can be defined as “a highly appropriate conceptual framework from which to study sport persistence and dropout” (Calvo, Cervelló, Jiménez, Iglesias, & Moreno Murcia, 2010). Intrinsic Motivation can be defined as “an athlete taking up playing a sport just for the enjoyment of playing a sport” (Pelletier, Tuson, Fortier, Vallerand, & Briére, 1995). It is important to realize that the self-determination theory affects an athlete’s motivation intrinsically (internally) because the self-determination theory uses factors like “autonomy” and “competence” to motivate an athlete to play better in their sport. Most athletes, now and in the past, find it easier to motivate themselves intrinsically if they enjoy the sport or have fun while playing the sport (Ryan & Deci, 1985).