Clean as water, strong as metal

Limpia como el agua, fuerte como el metal

Winning fair

An infallible guide to triumph in sports – and life.

 

We’ve already introduced you Ronald Jonathan Benites Rangel, a Laws student with three diplommas in criminal issues, extrajudicial conciliator, ecology activist, and fan of bodybuilding and biking too. His sport journey began in 2010 when he decided he wanted to improve his physical condition through power training, and he didn’t stop until participating in three Mister Piura contests in 2012, 2013, and 2014.

 

“I did it because I wanted to prove myself how much I’ve could advance and comparing my level to other Piura bodybuilders, and, why not, everywhere,” he affirms. “Also, I wanted to prove it can participate any contest, then passing the anti-doping tests without fear to objections or accusations.”

 

“You don’t know the sensation someone has going up the stage and contest! It’s an emotion you only can describe in that same instant,” he comments so proud while his eyes shine by satisfaction. “I didn’t win but I dared.” The journey is not simple. The obstacles appear everytime, and the most difficult is the indifference to sports. “One thing concerning me is the bodybuilding has no sponsorship from companies and my town’s institutions,” he claims quiet but convinced.

 

The genetics and natural feeding that still can be gotten in an agricultural community like Chulucanas, Peru, made possible he grew, muscularily speaking, not needing to run to synthetized supplementation. “I eat everything I can but balanced, plus my exercises routine,” he tells.

 

Although in the beginning, his family didn’t see well his hobby, they realized soon it was getting benefits to him. “I like to go out with my friends but I don’t smoke, I don’t drink alcohol, I sleep enough, oh!, and I neither make drugs,” he explains. Also, Ronald has a good academic performance, he’s a student leader, and he has discovered an insight as a conferencist and motivator, getting to catch his public’s interest.

 

At a workshop for youth in Sullana, he got to convince his audience on the need to grow and consume healthy food. After the presentation, he was one of the most required speakers by the attendants to make a picture.

 

The RJ Strategy

Based upon his own experience, we thought what things worked to Ronald that could work to you, and we found a quite exigent pattern, but if you follow it up, you culd also be proud of your own results, and playing fair.

• Find the reason inside you – Almost all the people motivate to begin a fitness plan if someone else goes with them. It helps for sure but it creates dependance. So, the idea is that the spark to begin, continue, and get must break out inside you. If nobody wants to follow you, move on. The triumph or the defeat will be your own responsibility.
• Set yourself clear and realistic goals – Yes, it’s necessary you set up a personal plan –look, personal—that points out wwwhich your sport goals will be and what adequate procedures will be to reach them. Take advice from a reliable specialist to see which ones will allow to optimize your own energy without underworking or overworking. Ronald also can advise you, and we’ll have this contact below this article.
• Get away what they will say – The people have right to opine, but never forget you have right to improve. Empower your convictions, and learn to manage the critic, wwhat means valuating it depending on who comes it on. Obviously, don’t listen to who doesn’t know anything of this – it’s losing worthy time.
• Apply honesty to your own plan – Believe it or not, there are people who try to cheat themselves even when they work out. Don’t do that mistake because you’re gonna frustrate or you’re gonna do an unrecoverable damage. Don’t accept the abounding magic recipes. Everything in life is gotten by working hard, and that’s the way it is. It can take you years even, but if you are patient and perseverant, you’ll se you’ll get it, and nobody could question your triumphs.
• Penalyze and award yourself – wait! This doesn’t mean you begin to hurt yourself, but you set up appropriate penalties and awards to your goals. So, you will learn to valuate your own effort. Your coach or Ronald can advise on this issue.
• Register your process – Are you going in progress? And according to what document? Remember there are advance indicators for every sport (anthropometrics, speed or weight records, etc). Then, take some minutes to have your own statistics and so having your own objective tool indicating if everything goes OK or not. Even it can be funny you design your own personal sport database, for you to set up progress scenarios.
• Share your experience – You don’t know the huge existent disinformation, even at gyms, about physical training strategies, so it’s necessary the people who have known to follow a plan, and prove it works, can do a sort of pair advisory complementing the specialized sport advisory. Plus, you’ll feel the satisfaction to see that all your effort was not in vain.

 

Ronald is available for customized training sessions and sport advisory, as well as speaking and conferences through Ronald_27_89@hotmail.com, his Facebook account, and our Twitter account.

 

Outdoor Training

By ChulucanasGym

Much more before  there were the classic gymnasiums, the Hellenic predecessors of the actual facilities, the way how the people kept fit was outdoor. If it’s true the Greek Classic Culture was the one that printed a lot  those activities through its art, there is evidence that every ancient world’s culture had training sessions mainly addressed to war exercises, all them made in the open.

As the time has been going on, the conception of the physical training has been getting close into the gymnasiums as we know them more than 3000 years ago, and only some specific activities have been left to work out outdoor, especially the ones referred to adapt to the natural landscape, as adventure sports. However, the effort to look for a major contact with Nature is motivating the people to depend less on indoor and to rediscover  the advantages of doing it not depending on the limitations of four walls and a roof.

As the environmental quality is guaranteed, one of these main benefits is to oxygenate with pure or mostly pure air. Another of those advantages is improving the mood much more evident compared to indoor only provided the landscape is cared or if it still conserves itsinitial natural setup. That’s why many outdoor training activists, our partner Ronald Benites among them, have demanded the authorities to have more green spaces inside the cities and to conserve the areas as the forests, beaches, wetlands, or any space where the human action has created few or none impact.

Over this basis, the outdoor training activity chances are wide, from calisthenics  to  major physical exigency sports. You choose the one you like a lot because whatever will come OK, the issue is you put in activity, so we have you some very useful tips for it.

1. Check Out The Weather Conditions

There’s no more disappointment than to schedule a day for beginning your training sessions and a heavy rain just starts to fall. It’s not about the heaven sending you any kind of message, it’s about you forgot to check out the weather conditions for the zone where you’re going to work out. Then, the solution is such simple as paying attention to the forecast on your favorite TV or radio station, or newspaper. Also remember today there are services offering you a high level of accuracy those allow to know the weather forecast and check it out real-time, that you can have it as an app on your smartphone, even.

2. Protect From Solar Radiation

Even in cloudy days, remember that having long time outdoor means to be exposed to B-type ultraviolet rays (UVB), unlike their A-type brothers (UVA), those can cause skin burning or cancer, or cataracts in the eyes (we will see which protection on the next point). Then, use a sunscreen that allow you to isolate them while you are out there. Remember the medical consensus is to use that with a 40-to-up sun protection factor (SPF). However, ask your reliable doctor or dermatologist about  wwhich one is the most adequate for your skin type. Also remember the sweat removes the sunscreen, so it’s necessary you to retouch it as suggested, one to two hours in general.

3. Choose The Right Outfit

One thing is working out indoor, where you can work out even naked, but another very different is doing it outdoor where you have to face different elements as solar rays, the wind, the temperature, the humidity, and inclusive the insects. Lookfor  and wear the clothes that guarantee you two things at the same time: protection before those elements, and flexibility for doing your movement in a free and natural way. Also choose the sportshoes those allow you to anchor very well  to the soil (or whatever you have to get your feet on), and that results easy to handle. If you work out during the daylight, wear a hat or a cap according to the circumstance and protect your eyes  with special sunglasses those filter UVB rays, those don’t go flying at the first abrupt movement. Get advice  with your trainer, in a serious sport store, and with other people those also work out outdoor.

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4. Never Forget The Medical Kit

If we didn’t advice it before is because we suppose your gym has an accessible one, but when you’re not in a facility of that type, or you’re totally alone at worst, and you have an eventuality as a contusion or any kind of accident, who and how helps you? That’s why it’s worthy to invest in a kit containing band aids, alcohol in gel, iodium, cotton, gauze, sticking plaster, some cream against bites, and even your sunscreen. It’s a good idea your kit box to have a card  wit your name and your phone numbers in emergency case - nobody never knows. Oh, and never it’s useless to know about first aid.

5. Have A Specialized Monitor

As much as the difficulty and the risk of the physical activity you do is major, the ideal would be it has the supervision and the guidance of a person who is paying you attention constantly, who knows how to act if any type of eventuality happens. If you work out in group, it would be fine that one of you to be someone having most experience for becoming that monitor. Remember that one thing is the gym, where you are just a couple of feet away, but another very different is out there where you could be inclusive a couple of hours away.  So listen carefully to your monitor, follow up the recommendations literally. The idea is you to come back to work out, not you to go just once and being forced not to come back for a long time or not coming back never again.

6. Hydrate

Yes, it’s obvious, but it’s necessary to remind it for the same reason than the previous tips. If you are at the gym, you only got to go to the water dispenser or buy a bottle with water, but out there, especially if you are far from the city, the better is you go well-supplied with enough water for hydrating before, during, and especially after  your training session. The same thing if you are accostumed to drink re-hydratant beverages, those only you have to consume after your training session for replacing salt and carbohydrates, not before. Find out more related information here.

7. Leave Clean The Space

It doesn’t matter  if you’re the only person who works out there, and much more reason if it’s about a collective space, avoid to leave trash although that’s not yours, especially if that could harm someone else. Working out outdoor implies a big commitment with the environment, so the hygiene would be a logical and consistent attitude. In consequence, not polluting (anyway) and educating the others through your example not for doing it  will be another of your responsibilities.

8. Create A Community

Although someone will prefer to isolate physically from the rest for a better training, our suggestion is you to try connecting other people like you doing certain outdoor sport or discipline around your region, your country or the world for interchanging experiences, warning for any cause, or even seeing the chance to visit each other for sharing the experience by promoting a kind of sport tourism. The social media are currently the means for commiting that task effectively and efficiently. Use them responsibly.

9. Share Your Experience

If you are who think your relatives, friends or contacts deserve to share the same satisfaction you get when you work out outdoor, try to write something and post it on your social media where you tell how you had, describe the place, and motivate the people to go with you or by themselves. If you want, share your experience with our crew on our Twitter account, by writing us at chulucanasgym@gmail.com, or leaving some message right below. We’ll enjoy to read you!

The photos on this post were provided (from the top to below) by César Campos, Ronald Benites, Pedro Changanaquí, and Félix Oviedo.

Ganando limpio

Una guía infalible para triunfar en el deporte, y en la vida.

 

Ya te hemos presentado a Ronald Jonathan Benites Rangel, un estudiante de Derecho con tres diplomados en temas penales, conciliador extrajudicial, activista ecologista, y además aficionado al fisicoculturismo y al ciclismo. Su travesía deportiva comenzó en 2010 cuando decidió que quería mejorar su condición física mediante el entrenamiento de potencia, y no paró hasta participar en tres certámenes de Mister Piura, en 2012, 2013 y 2014.

 

“Lo hice porque me quería probar a mí mismo cuánto he podido avanzar, y comparar mi nivel con el de otros fisicoculturistas de Piura, y, por qué no, de otras partes”, afirma. Además, quería demostrar que se puede participar de cualquiera de estos concursos y pasar luego las pruebas anti-dopaje sin temor a objeciones o señalamientos.

 

“¡No sabes la sensación que uno tiene de subir al escenario y concursar! Es una emoción que sólo puedes describirla en ese mismo instante”, comenta orgulloso, mientras sus ojos se iluminan de satisfacción. “No gané, pero me atreví”. La travesía no es sencilla. Los obstáculos aparecen en todo momento, y el más difícil es la indiferencia hacia el deporte. “Una cosa que me preocupa es que el fisicoculturismo no tiene auspicio de las empresas y las instituciones de mi localidad”, reclama tranquilo pero convencido.

 

La genética y la alimentación natural, que aún se puede lograr en una comunidad agrícola como Chulucanas, Perú, hizo posible que creciera muscularmente hablando, sin necesidad de recurrir a suplementación sintética. “Como todo lo que puedo, pero balanceado, además de mi rutina de ejercicios”, cuenta.

 

Aunque al inicio su familia no vio con buenos ojos su afición, pronto se dio cuenta que estaba consiguiéndole beneficios: “Me gusta salir con mis amigos, pero no fumo, no bebo alcohol, duermo lo suficiente, ¡ah! Y menos consumo drogas”, explica. Además, Ronald tiene un buen rendimiento académico, es líder estudiantil, y ha descubierto una faceta como conferencista y motivador, logrando atrapar el interés de su público.

 

En un taller para jóvenes en Sullana, logró convencer a su auditorio sobre la necesidad de producir y consumir alimentos aludables.  Tras la exposición, fue uno de  los ponentes más requeridos por los y las participantes para hacerse fotos.

 

La estrategia RJ

Basados en su propia experiencia, nos pusimos a reflexionar qué cosas funcionaron con Ronald que podrían funcionar contigo, y encontramos un patrón algo exigente, pero que, si lo sigues, también podrás enorgullecerte de tus propios resultados, y jugando limpio.

• Encuentra la razón dentro de ti: Casi todas las personas se animan a iniciar un plan de acondicionamiento físico si otra persona les acompaña. Claro que ayuda, pero crea dependencia; entonces, la idea es que la chispa para empezar, seguir y lograr debe nacer dentro de ti. Si nadie quiere seguirte, avanza: el triunfo o el fracaso será tu propia responsabilidad.
• Establécete metas claras y realistas: Sí, es necesario que traces un plan personal –ojo, personal- que te indique cuáles serán tus objetivos deportivos y qué procedimientos serán los adecuados para lograrlos. Asesórate de un especialista confiable para ver cuáles serán los que te permitan optimizar tu propia energía, sin subesforzarte ni sobreesforzarte. Ronnald también te puede asesorar, y al final te dejaremos su contacto.
• Destierra el ‘qué dirán’: La gente tiene derecho a opinar, pero nunca olvides que tú tienes derecho a mejorar. Fortalece tus convicciones, y aprende a manejar la crítica, es decir, valórala dependiendo de quién venga. Obviamente, no le prestes oídos a quien no sabe nada de esto: es perder tiempo valioso.
• Aplica la honestidad a tu propio plan: aunque no lo creas, hay gente que trata de engañarse a sí misma incluso cuando entrena. No cometas ese error, pues o te vas a frustrar o te vas a hacer un daño irreparable. No aceptes las ‘recetas mágicas’ que abundan: todo en la vida se consigue trabajando duro, y ése es el camino. Puede tomarte años incluso, pero si eres paciente y perseverante, verás que lo conseguirás, y nadie podrá cuestionar tus triunfos.
• Penalízate y prémiate: ¡espera! Esto no quiere decir que comiences a hacerte daño, sino que establezcas castigos y premios apropiados a tus metas. De ese modo, aprenderás a valorar tu propio esfuerzo. Tu asesor deportivo o Ronald pueden aconsejarte sobre este tema.
• Registra tu proceso:  ¿estás progresando? ¿Y según qué documento? Recuerda que hay indicadores de avance para cada deporte (antropometría, marcas de velocidad, peso, etc.), entonces tómate unos minutos para llevar tu propia estadística,y así tener una herramienta objetiva que te indique si todo va bien o no. Hasta puede ser divertido que diseñes tu propia base de datos deportiva personal, para que establezcas escenarios de progreso.
• Comparte tu experiencia: No sabes la cantidad de desinformación que hay, incluso en los gimnasios, sobre estrategias de entrenamiento físico, por lo que hace falta que las personas que han sabido seguir un plan, y probar que funciona, puedan hacer una especie de ‘consejería de pares’ que complemente el asesoramiento deportivo especializado. Además, sentirás la satisfacción de ver que todo tu esfuerzo no fue en vano.

 

Ronald está disponible para sesiones personalizadas de entrenamiento y asesoría deportiva, así como para charlas y conferencias, mediante ronal_27_89@hotmail.com , su cuenta de Facebook o nuestra cuenta en Twitter.

The Best Of Winter 2018

We want to take this space for thanking you because of your preference to all our features. In fact, those ones were the favorite for you on our Twitter account:

The influence of genetics
This article pays attention into your family history and how it determines your progress capability when working out bodybuilding, fitness or any sport as well.

Beware about what you eat
Many times, the guys get focused on the physical routine, but they dismiss the importance of a healthy feeding and how it balances everything. And this is the subject point by our contributing writer and bodybuilder Ronald Benites.

Yeah, the yoga
This is a classic one of ours. Although the information is very litle -we recognize-, it's a good introduction for this discipline about we promise to produce more stories.

Another top features you like and share were:
How the muay thai changed the life of Piura-based athlete Daniel Garro.
3 projects for recycling the plastic and give a better look to your living-room.

In terms of specific audiences, those are the countries and contents those worked better during the last season:

United Kingdom:
The 5 lessons you have to consider when entering in a bodybuilding or fitness contest.
The story of Sullana-based bodybuilder Kevin Cano.
The importance of a healthy feeding.

Spain:
The functional training.
The muay thai and Daniel Garro.

France:
Why to practice yoga.

United States:
why to practice yoga, again (a top story, actually)
The muay thai and Daniel Garro, again.
Recycling plastic through 3 projects for your living-room.
The importance of a healthy feeding, again.

Austria:
5 steps for a right warm-up

Remember we want to know about you and your story. It could be highlighted here. Imagine inspiring the world! Do it! Follow our Twitter account or write us down at chulucanasgym@gmail.com or drop us a message right under here.

Más allá de un simple ‘al natural’

Let's Return To Nature

By Ronald Benites

There is a place where all the effort and sacrifice we display at the gym is tested - the natural mean, outdoors, right there where electtricity and technology are limited use, where we are among the Creation.

Very few of us remember, or want to remember, that much before wireless and smartphones existed, human beings had to be in-shape for going amid the forests, the mountains, and the water, looking for our livelihood. It was necessary to be well fed but also having strong and flexible muscles for moving forward fastly, sagaciously, successfully. Despite it, surviving was impossible.

Inclusive when we were setting down as human settlements as towns or first cities, constant physical activity was basic to sustain our life.

As our knowledge allowed the technology developed muchly, we also were losing the connection to tat mean where we encourage or were encouraged to survive. In some sense, the confort of a roof or the immediacy of a click have been taking off our ancestral spaces, and altough we try to recreate few yards away our homes or inside them, it's not the same.

So, for who works out hard constantly at the gym or a sportscenter, the return to Nature must not be considered as an extravagant but necessary activity, not like an extraordinary milestone but a frequent habit.

The reason is so simple as the contact to Nature revitalize us when breathing pure air, forcing to be in constant physical activity, solving our lacks with creativity, getting amazed by the processes and interactions of living beings to the landscape... because we came from there and we have to return there as often as we can for cleaning our soul.

We could say that unfortunately our urban spaces drown our natural spaces much more everytime, but we are responsible in some sense about that process when we refuse to propose an ordered growing and a more rational exploitation of the environment, and the manner we live.

So it's desirable that we must incorporate the respect and conservation of our natural spaces where we can intervene preventively for our physical, mental, and even spiritual health, also demanding our basic services to be correctly implemented and satisfied. Spaces where we can practice physical activity and sports, meditate, produce healthy food, and even follow therapies of diverse kind too.

Our actual or aspirant authorities have there a straight interesting agenda item they must not skip but promoting, managing and defending.

Personally, I enjoy a lot being in contact to Nature. I feel I clean my soul, and there are fortunately many spaces around Chulucanas, my city, where I can reload myself after going some minutes up by walking, running, or biking (actually, the pictures of myself on this article were taken in this place).

But I confess  I have a big predilection by the mountains, abouth those I am going to feel ever wondered.  You know. Maybe become living there some day further, eating tasty and healthy, working out my body and soul while listening to the animals or the creeks' water in the background... in the end, returning to that space where the human learned once upon a time to be human.

Thanks! An athlete must be good in discipline, must form a possitive attitude too.

By ChulucanasGym
Model and photographs by Ronald Benites.

One of the problems many athletes face is the anonimity because they have no clarity on a personal branding-&-publicity strategy, because they don't get to catch the attention of mass media as well. And when you are not public, who will be following about the things you do and get?

If you are in that bunch, your choices are discouraging or continuing to fight.  If you choose the second one, you can do it from the resentment -attitude that the most adopt wrongly- or you can do it from the enthusiasm itself; from the conviction you are superating your own limits, you can break the records as well.

How much does this count in an athlete? It has much to count, because as much as how you go educating and displaying your attitude, that much you will know  to asume your results and setting new challenges. If you ever keep possitive, the victories and the defeats will mean learning. If you trend to be negative instead, everything wwill generate you anxiety and you will live in a constant frustration status.

Of course your possé has much to count in the formation of a possitive or a negative attitude, and you must have the sufficient intelligence in that sense for realising when that pulls you, when that harms you. Depending on the answer, you must be too brave to step ahead or stop in your spot.

Coming next, some advice you can apply for creating a possitive attitude, based upon the experience of many peoplelike you, living with and within the sport, and who can superate through this.

Being Kind Is Free
They say the two expressions those open doors are "please" and "thanks" ("push" and "pull" are not)., and this is the key of your whole success - the respect. As much as you treat well to the people, the people will treat you well... or the most, at least.

The ameability is the skill you get to have your life well-mannered, with affection, deserving the care of the rest. Although being kindis remembered in the same level than being rude, the ameability presets favorabily the people for listening to you and helping you in what you need. Inclusive if the person doesn't have the capability of solving your problem turning it under control, be sure that your good treatment could commit that person to allow you for finding  and answer, a solution, or simply for that person does you that favor  you need in the best possible way.

Being kind also attracts the people and puts the spotlight on you. And as an athlete, one of the things you must be more focused about is the support , being just cheers, being to get a little different complex things as a sponsorship. It also allows you to have certain concessions in services you use to take. An athlete ever causes admiration, but a kind athlete  will be ever the person whom everybody will want to suport what they can.

And ever and forever, do it because you feel is right. The people use to realize, soon or late, when your attitude is real or when it's just a disguise.

Humble But Not Shy
The humility is the own recognizement of everything you are capable, thinking you're not much or less important than the rest. It's simply about how much great you can become, what costed you work to get, not making you haughty, disparaging, or arrogant, what could be its worst opposite edge.

The another negative edge of the humility is the shyness, the feeling you have of not deserving what you have got or the recognizement you receive, what borns from your own insecurity. And this is the keyword of all this advice.

If you shine with your own light (not lended, not stolen), don't fear the rest realizes it. Simply shine.  Don't mistake  turning off that bright because you will regret  in the future, or you will feed  a dumb aprehension against the rest because they don't give you such a space or chance.
The first trick is you learn to love yourself with everything you have for better or for worst, for recognizing you can improve the good and correct the bad, and feeling proud (not arrogant) for every task you are getting.

Do you remember of saying thanks? If they recognize it, thank it, don't get focused out of yourself, chase your next goal.  And when you get it, repeat the procedure. And this advice applies too for social media, no matter how many followers you got (what is relative) , telling them what you're achieving, thanking when the people appreciate it feeds your soul and prepares your body to step ahead much gladly.

If the people don't recognize it to you, take it easy, analyze if it's about a hard critic or simple envy. Anyway, don't let that disencourage you. Turn it into a fuel to go to the infinite and beyond.

Your Privacy Has Limits
everybody highlighting everything public, sports inclusive, could generate restlessness and curiosity. Its natural and even legitimate.  The question is how longer those restlessness and curiosity can reach. Answer: Until you allow it.

Set up access rings and deserve the people with access priviledges to your life according to the trust grade you go developing with them: the intimate, that only matters you, the private, that usually counts on your inner possé, the public, that can be known by the rest.

Never mistake letting a circle invading anoter one because when you lose control of the access, neither yourself will realize what belongs whose, when too. Yes, you'll end so confused like that.

Don't give your full trust to the people approaching to you. In some sense, first study them carefully. If possible, request for reliable references to the people who proved a more objective vision, and go slow on those lands. Just the same applies for social media.

Your Possé Has Not To Be Toxic
Talking about the people around you, a mistake we use to make is interacting with people who feed our ego so much, that  when we meet wisest people, we think they are attacking on us. In the other side, we have the people who seem to give us an Algebra or Aritmethics books - problems after problems.

Have the enough clarity to detect when your possés begin to become toxic, poisonous, polluting. When things are not clear for you, have the courage for requesting somebody trustable (not toxic) for helping you to see the situation, not to solve the problem on behalf of you.

The healthy thing in those cases is leaving out the toxic possés and migrate to others  which you can grow in a  balanced way. It will be difficult, but remember you  made to going the difficult back, so it has much to to with courage for taking a radical decision.

That applies not only to people but environment. If you can leave them behind, it would be the recommendable. if not, setting them up as much as  you have a quiet place to rest, at least. The same with your social media.

Goals Take Time
everybody repeats it to you, but it's also true that everybody looks for this to get short as much as possible, and the mistake is right there. In the effort to made everything more inmediate, many people end to skip steps, harming them long-term that can destroy, inclusive, their own life.

Use to step at time and standing up firm when you get it. Then step next. Although the temptation to skip is present everytime, even you can, it's better to go step by step.

Obviously, this means to invest time overall, but the virtue of every athlete is the perseverance, get focused on something until reaching it. Check out back what we put about humility, just in case.

Here is good to remember the power of Not once proving that, in fact, the idea or the proposal  is not the best one. Yes, you'll have to develop your skill to analyze the things cold head. It doesn't get inmediatly, neither, and it's possible you mistake in the beginning. Do it because the mistakes teach too, or the mistakes especially teach instead.

Diversify
If you heard somebody advising you (especially your parents) to have in mind something additional to the sport, consider it. Remember tat even if you are exclusively dedicated to it, the sport has a limited life among your whole life, and what will you do when that moment comes on?

Many athletes have one or more additional proffessions, those practice paralelly or once  their cycle has finished. Inclusive, if you thought to open your own academy, gymnasium, or training school, don't you think it would be useful to have some managing or accountability course?

It's recommendable you be a proffessional in the sport you do, and actually many federations worldwide offer official courses and certifications  those give you more weight... proffessional, we mean. Also, it's not a bad idea to make an alliance with with some university or institute for creating extension courses targetting the same purpose.

Now, if your choices are out the sports field, prepare for them so  if you have to assume them, you do  with the required competence. Look! Puting on your resumé you're a qualified athlete, raise scores. We promise it.

Healthy Body In Healthy Mind
Yes, we know the quote is in reverse, but this variant also applies in the formation of your attitude. Because it's not only about reaching an outstanding physique but that goes aside with emotions management, solving your problems adequatly, learning to get related with the persons possitively, and -why not- setting free of prejudge (anticipated ideas) or stereotypes (tagging the people without knowing them).

A big part of your physical performance depends on how much you have your mind prepared. When one of them is unbalanced, unbalances everything.
Your mental work passes not only by receiving a adequate and specialized proffessional advice (a psychologist, sports-specialized if possible), but you take the necessary time for going to work out your mind through  neuroprogramming or meditation. Some people will prefer to trust in the power of the pray, what also allows you  to project toward a spiritual dimension. Do it because it also works.

The reading or doing other productive hobbies will also help you to gro up your mind and acquire new knowledge you can add into the practice of your sport or discipline. Ultimately, it's not only about to be skillful but wise.

You Lose If Stressed
As a next consequence, learn to detect when your stress level raises much than it doesn't affect mentally only, phisically too. And if it affects you physically, your performance could fall down. However, learn to work under pressure. That's why the most experienced athletes themselves advice you to dedicate to the sport you like much for you can process those stress levels in a possitive way, avoiding you to disencourage, what could be awful.

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Laugh, sing, dance. Make something that take you out the stress zone, that sets your mind free, so being easy to retake the focusing when needed, and learn that your resting times are to rest.

Your Opinion Matters... And Inspires!
everything you learn in your training, competition process, and in general everything around your athlete' life can be an interesting life leson going beyond the sports. Don't miss the chance to share that learning with the people, especially the new generations, who are ever looking for a model to follow.

In the same way, we remind you not to miss the chance for using the media to share that wisdom. Although they could be interested on the number of medals or your next sports event, don't fear to add something new to your statements that generates top stories. If you have any regarding doubt, contact us for advicing you.

If you are identified to any social cause, don't doubt to give it time and put your image, incorporating your experience as an athlete for getting more people to adopt possitive attitude. From washing the hands correctly to campaigns against bullying and discrimination, a cause is ever waiting for you to empower.