During the numerous hours of practice I endured this connection was detectable. After weeks of eating minimal amounts of food and exerting great amounts of energy to reach the weight I wrestled at, I was both mentally and physically exhausted. Fortunately, when my body was weak my mind pushed it to go harder with the reminder of how badly I wanted to be a successful wrestler and when my mind was feeble my body kept performing. The importance of the mind-body connection is immense. It pushed me to practice harder, become both mentally and physically tougher and perform at athletic levels I did not know I was capable of
Aimee Hart Mrs. Dzubak English 121 2/19/2012 Becoming a Successful College Athlete “There are about 400,000 student-athletes, and just about every one of them will go pro in something other than sports. To many “going pro” is a measure of success outside of sports.” Through balance and determination student athletes can be successful in both athletics and academics. Student athletes have to find a way to balance their education with their sport. In order to be successful, they have to develop the mental stamina to fight through the drowsiness and get to that 8 a.m. class when they just arrived back in town four hours earlier from a grueling game the night before. Student athletes need to manage their time productively by not being able to waste the limited time they have and to plan ahead with daily schedules that organize their time as necessary to fulfill each of their responsibilities.
This is not true, athletes have to work significant hours just to stay in their professional league, let alone be a star. A great deal of practicing, working out, rehabbing, and watching game film goes in every day to prepare for the next opponent. Every week, they practice and play a notable amount of hours, most notably on the weekends, when most people don’t have to work. There is a huge amount of pressure on players to win every game, especially in cities like New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Dallas, and other notorious sports cities. This pressure is raised even higher for rookies, who were stars in college, and also for superstars.
Football training started a full month before school. It gave us time to develop a bond. We ran, hit, learned, sweat and bled together. With each sprint, lap and push up, our bond grew stronger. We began to help each other up, push each other harder and pass along information to each other.
Improving my accuracy, loading time, and how quickly I could spot a target where all the things I needed to go into the big leagues. But first I had to learn all of the rules of handling a gun which took time but soon became second nature when doing target practice outside. When I was ready, my mom and dad took me to their save and pulled everything out. They started training with me and every week started to let me handle the guns more and more. We scheduled a day at the range with a couple of our friends but they were more like family.
Meets in swimming are really hyped up. Each team and coach are shouting at the top of their lungs for every passing team mate competing. Meets lasts hours upon end where all your personal events probably only lasts from thirty seconds to five minutes. Personal events for me are always time eclipses that swiftly lead to my inevitable defeat. Luckily if you're nervous about personal events they are over before you know it.
The only reason why I had stayed at the school for so long was because of the sparring that we practiced there. I could fight all out in an environment where it was perfectly okay to hurt the other opponent, this gave me a great feeling that I am now always craving for. Every single day, I practice my basics moves. I spend about an hour just practicing martial arts each day. But at my house we don’t have a punching bag, so to substitute for it; I condition, or harden my hands by taking a wet newspaper, then placing it on a brick wall to punch.
According to Ben Askren, a two-time NCAA champion and an Olympic team member, there are two thing in wrestling that are always true. He believes a wrestler has to wrestle at the correct weight class in order to be successful and the more mentally tough wrestler wins if everything else is equal. Since it is known that the more mentally tougher wrestler wins, he states that the act of losing a lot of weight puts the wrestler’s mind into a tougher state of mind. Many wrestlers believe the more weight they lose, the bigger they are compared to the rest of their competitors, which ultimately leads to more success. This is true in some cases, but only if the weight is lost in a healthy amount of time and by maintaining a healthy diet.
When the announcement came, we were overcome with emotion that our name was not called for that meant that we were champions. Practicing for this goal was no easy task. It was complete with hard work, blood, and sweat. Each year we began with band camp, a grueling two-week period
My team and I were going to play St. Rita, a battle we had persistently prepared for since the last game of our sophmore year. The sun was beating on my pads, radiating the heat to make practice seem even worse. I was exhausted and looking forward to the end of my last sweat, pouring practice for the week. Our team was repetitively executing plays to make sure they were like second nature to us on friday. The coach yelled, "Last Play!"