On this weblog we discover whether or not COVID has offered athletes with an excessive instance of efficiency necessities and the way athletes must consider yoga to assist the unpredictable into their coaching.
Over 11,238 athletes competed in Rio, however this summer season we’ve seen a decline within the variety of athletes at 11,091 …and counting. Solely days earlier than the ceremony, and on account of the Coronavirus pandemic, we’ve seen athletes equivalent to a Chilean taekwondo fighter and Dutch skateboarder already take a look at constructive for COVID-19. Sadly this implies they haven’t any alternative however to drop out and will likely be unable to compete on this yr’s Video games. The implications this might need on the result of the Tokyo 2021 Olympics is unimaginable.
Not solely may this impression on the outcomes for the competitors nevertheless it’s necessary that we take a second to contemplate the psychological well-being of the athletes. It’s exhausting to grasp what it is like for an athlete who has skilled rigorously for the final 4 years – maybe their complete life – solely to have the chance of representing their nation taken away on the final second and at such an integral level of their profession. Unhappy occasions. As COVID-19 continues to problem us in methods past our comprehension, let’s deal with the positives that may come out of this most extraordinary yr.
An athlete has 4 years to coach to compete within the Olympics with structured coaching plans and efficiency goals to realize. Rigorous coaching schedules, self-discipline, and focus has them maintaining a tally of the aim and the coveted Olympic prize. As evidenced, the pandemic has offered so many uncertainties and through this time it’s integral to come back geared up to any efficiency with a device equipment prepared to deal with an entire new layer of stress. Yoga will be this game-changing device equipment.
For over a decade the Institute of Yoga Sports activities Science® has supplied athletes with new instruments to assist them obtain their objectives by making use of sports-specific yoga and efficiency respiration methods to their coaching. We’ve skilled individuals keen about yoga and sport to offer the precise yoga device equipment to the athletes by introducing our evidenced-based methods to assist athletes cut back the chance of harm and improve efficiency, mindset and well-being. The wonder, the science and the subtlety of yoga has the ability to offer a basic basis for a game-changing efficiency.
‘The contribution to the yoga and athletic world that Hayley Winter and workforce on the Institute of Yoga Sports activities Science (YSS) have made over the past decade, has been a sport changer for yoga lecturers desirous to specialize and work with athletes, and a gamer changer for athletes which have utilized the YSS methodology delivered by Yoga Sports activities Coaches’. – Leon Taylor, Olympic Silver Medalist, Creator, Mentor, BBC Sports activities ‘Voice of Diving’ and Yoga trainer.
With the Olympic Video games absolutely underway, we’re already seeing the fallout from the extra layers of COVID stress, and examples of athletes having to make on-the-spot powerful selections to assist their psychological well being and well-being.
This Olympic Video games will go down in historical past as a Video games like no different. One which has seen athletes deal with a component of unpredictability – a pandemic – that to-date has been an unknown amount to issue into any athletic coaching. It has reminded us that athletes are human.
On the finish of this Video games many discussions, debates and evaluations will hopefully be carried out by athletes, coaches, and the Worldwide Olympic Committee. We hope the supportive and integral position that sports-specific yoga can play is a key a part of these discussions throughout all sports activities for each human athlete. 🙏🏽
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