We’re halfway through term 2 at college, club training and games are in full swing and it’s at about this time I would expect our students to be putting into practice the strategies we have outlined in regards to injury prevention and management.
While it’s not pleasing to see our students sidelined because of injury, I was very happy to see a number of our players choosing to sit out at our indoor session last Wednesday. This indicates their understanding of their injury and what is required to ensure a fast return to optimum health and training. I hope these players are also making sensible decisions where their club training and games are concerned. This is the mindset of professionals.
It is very different to the mindset of those who will not make it in professional sport. In such cases, there is a point in every match or prior to each training session – (and in some cases it’s right at the beginning) – when the loser decides he’s going to lose.
After that, everything that player does will be aimed at providing an explanation of why he will have lost, or not performed at training.
He may throw himself at the ball so he will be able to say he’s done his best against a superior opponent. He may dispute calls so he will be able to say it’s because of the referee. He may feign injury so he can say it was apparent all along he wasn’t in top form. At the end of the day, his energies go into producing an explanation, an excuse, a justification for losing.
I have used excerpts from the following source for this blog:
C. Terry Warner, Bonds That Make Us Free: Healing Our Relationships, Coming to Ourselves
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