The great books about sports training are not the books about training! (1)


Just so: the real books about training are not the ones who speak workout,

without detracting from professionals, Scientists movement, but if we continue to stay to cultivate our garden, without embracing other knowledge, our ability to observe the phenomena that surround us will always be limited to the knowledge of our discipline, and only with great effort, we will make a step forward towards new horizons;

include sports training is to understand the life, study athletic training does not mean studying muscle, strength etc.., how many watertight compartments, as he understood Pascal, when he says that:

“can not be considered without taking account of the particular global and can not be considered the global without taking into account the particular.”(2)

Everything is connected, everything is connecting, nothing is separated, Unfortunately, our culture has taught us to think in these terms, in a reductionist: with reductionism we put more attention to how things are done, much less we are interested in how things work.

The first lines of the definition of sports training Paschal Bellotti recite:

sports training is an educational process complex“.

A careless reading might lead us to overlook when it is deep and rich in meaning that definition, in fact, the terms: educational process and preserve the essence of sports training complex, A new paradigm is on the horizon, a new interpretation changes the modus operandi of the coach, to do whatever effort is required, effort and a willingness to abandon old ideas about training now sports;

this involves suffering, implies pain, no need to abandon our beliefs and went the way of uncertainty, the biggest mistake you can do is get stuck in the old conception that we have of training, whether you like it or not sports training does not respond to Newtonian laws of cause and effect or, in other words, does not respond to the stimulus-response Pavlovian and the effort consists in abandoning the mechanism and reductionism of which training is pregnant, being the concept of training the son of ideologies now dead and buried.

To err is human, persevere is diabolical or better to persevere is stupid. Just thinking back to training in a new interpretation we can get out of the trap into which we have fallen, whether you like it or not, but the road is not drawn from programs, Bens that Strategie.

How would Antonio Machado: “Walk This Way“, there is a road marked, the way you do with the way, while walking you trace the path.

The training is complex”, but what it means is complex?

Complex does not mean complicated, a watch is complicated, the body is complicated, but in fact complex, the substantial difference lies in the fact that something complicated, such as the clock, can be dismantled into all its parts and then be reconstructed in its entirety, then the total is the sum of the parts,

Instead the body has completely other features, parts of the body are linked together in a close relationship of interdependence, the body can not be decomposed, the sum between the parti, constituted by its connection to herself or interdependencies,returns entities more of the individual parts, then the whole is more than the sum of its parts: we can not think of strength training separate from the resistance, the tactics or technique, etc.etc., as if everything was divided, everything was separate.

As a process hologramatic, every movement is an expression of the athlete, but beware! Do not make the mistake of considering only the athlete as a biological phenomenon, because the athlete is also psychological, is also sociological.

In other words, the athlete's son, the athlete is a student, the athlete boyfriend, adolescent athlete is, the athlete is a national, the athlete athlete, the athlete athlete among athletes: in short, the athlete is a person with all its history, with all his experience, with all his thought, which is expressed through the movement, even the smallest movement.

The coach has a responsibility to consider all. If he does, when it does, when tempted to reduce reality to pure facts mechanical, the athlete to a machine, then fails.

my most sincere greetings

Giulio Rattazzi

Note

(1) “The great books about sports training are not the books about training!”

Sentence pronounced by Prof. Pasquale Bellotti during a university course at the Faculty of Sport Sciences of Turin

(2) “can not be considered without taking account of the particular global and can not be considered the global without taking into account the particular.”

Aphorism says Blaise Pascal, cited in the book “The head well done” Edgar Morin, Routledge

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