Bullying – how to be part of the solution

Millions of people are victims everyday worldwide because the simple matter of being who they are, not looking like the predominant social standard.

 

 

May the gyms or training fields be other places where the stalkers can find new victims, or insist with who are already?  The answer is yes – it’s going to depend on you, trainer, this stops or corrects.

 

The bullying consists in, during a lapse of time, stalking somebody purposed to injure the self-esteem, or forcing to segregate out from a bunch of people. The agressions can be physical, psychological, verbal, sexual, social, an even laboral (mobbing).

 

The reason why you must not allow the bullying in your gym or training field is as simple as the attendants go to learn, perfect by contending themselves. So, if you detect the competitive spirit opens a chance to the aggression to the contender, you must stop the situation immediately.

 

The ideal would be your place has a clear written regardin rule (for example: bullyin is not allowed here). But the truth is that, whether a rule or not, the stalkers ever will look for the way to injure. That’s why we give you here some urgent ideas you can apply while the parties look for specialized professional advisory for healing that situation.

 

 

As a trainer:

• Have clear your behavior rules: They must be based upon the respect, they must be shown with right facts. If your pupils see you stalk, although you reprimend them, they’ll understand they have an understood permission to stalk.
• Choose carefully the ways you are going to encourage your pupil: It’s not the best idea comparing to other ones, or, if he doesn’t do the routines with the intensity you expect, the better would be asking why his performance is not the wished before disqualifying him.
• Don’t do a party with the stalkers neither the victim: More than neutral, remind them you are the leader in the room or at the field, so if they are not capable to respect themselves, they respect on you at least. You don’t have to scream it but to say it straight.
• Don’t ignore the aggression, don’t encourage it neither: Make the gym or the training field to be a kind place for everyone. But neither act like nothing happens because the indifference, in this case, is more dangerous than any kind of action due to it can get like agreement or complicity.

 

 

Against the stalker(s):

• Once you have identified who stalk, talk one by one and in private. Your message has to be clear and straight – at least inside the gym or the training field, that behavior is not allowed.
• If the Stalker(s) relapse(s), call the attention in public. The message and the tone must be exactly the same. If you can add you are not going to tolerate it once again, that could work.
• If both previous rules don’t work and your gym or training field has a written anti-bullying policy, apply the top penalty.
• Never let the stalkers join you into their party. Usually, who stalk empower when they make the victim to believe it’s not about their bunch but there are much more people beside them. When you say them you are not part of the aggression, this begins to weaken.
• If the Stalker(s) is (are) under legal age, contact the parents or tutors and explain the situation as well as your position about.
• Don’t add exhausting training routines as a punishment. The true penalty for the stalker(s) is not doing two additional sets or staying 30 minutes more but to have restricted access to the place or services you offer.
• It’s probable the stalkers cancel their membership or fee. Don’t see it like a lose – see it like an affirmative action which looks for protecting the positive experience of working out at the gym or the training field.

 

 

With the victim:

• Talk in private, let clear he must take action to block the aggressions in an assertive way, and that you don’t see any reason for he to ashame, feel fear or guilt.
• If he needs to talk to you, give the proper space and time. Remember you are the leader at the gym or training field. So, if you’re not trustworthy, who more he could vent with what he feels? Check out this guide if you need more orientation.
• It’s not enough to say “you gotta be strong”. It’s necessary to give effective, smart ideas to accomplish it. If you own the proper psychological or pedagogic resources, offer them. If not, refer the victim to specialized professional advisory – the most is free.
• Regarding the previous, never advise to respond the aggression with a larger aggression – the violence only borns more violence, and you’ll get more bruised in the end.
• Don’t revictimize – don’t expose the victim to a new aggression, in other words. Don’t overprotect, neither.
• Use the training to provide confidence and courage. But that doesn’t mean exhausting but teaching to feel proud of the achievements, understanding they all were reached based upon the own effort. It’s a very practical way to go educating on self- esteem.
• If we have recommended you not to be part of the stalking party, neither join a party with the victim. Keep in the middle but open to ssolve the conflicts breaking out between both parties.
• And don’t forget if the victim is under legal age, contact the parents or tutors to coordinate a supporting circle providing tools and resources to overcome the aggression episodes.
• If the victim decides to cancel his fee or membership, give the time and the space. Probably, he needs it to think better about the issue. Indeed, let clear the doors are ever open.

 

If you need more orientation, write us on our Twitter account or our e-mail: chulucanasgym@gmail.com

  

Aerobics at the beach

Having so much free space and the sea in the background, why not moving your body?

By ChulucanasGym

During many time, El Toril Beach in Paita, peru, was abandoned. Adding the belonging contamination of the sand due to the solid residues, the sea in front of it has been suffering from a similar process caused by waste water emission.

The Peruvian authorities took control of the second one and started a surveillance plan that allowed to identify the companies uncontrolling  their emissions to prevent or to penalize just in case. The first one implied a citizen movement  which was joined later by the local authorities, until in the last years many cleaning journeys were hold for letting the space in acceptable conditions, at least for taking a sunbath.

El Toril Beach is attended by sports fans because it's next to Paita City, having the sea right there. People jogging, playing ball, working out someway, even swimming, meet there daily. 

For Perfect Body Gym's senior trainer Félix Oviedo, the beach is an ideal place to get balance within physical and mental health by moving the body. That's why he and his staff chose it as the right stage for  having an aerobics master class, last December 2nd.

During three hours, around 40 people summoned to learn with trainers coming from  cities around Paita.  "What we wanted was the people to take the stress away, burning fat, and enjoying the beach," Oviedo commented to ChulucanasGym.

Doing aerobics outdoors is not new but funny indeed. And it's not new because the humankind, inclusive since before it evolved such,  was in constant movement and needed agility and stamina  for moving around and getting everything  it required.

Essentially, the aerobic exercise consists into a series of moderate-impact moves with high repetitions, what inside the body, uses the oxygen to decompose the fat among the muscles, having it as fuel.

As a result, the internal and external tone of the tissues improves, heart beating regulates, cognitive capability increases, aging slows down in every level. and in a country with high levels of violence, it reduces  the stress  and  raises the wellbeing sensation.

By definition, running, biking, swimming, walking, and even doing home chores vigorously, are types of aerobic exercise. What is done at a gym class is spotting  the work on certain muscular groups, or along the body, controlling sequence and repetitions.

For the people trying to lose weight, the aerobic exercise is ideal because of the same in-muscle fat elimination process, what is good news for the ones ripping them, what means staying lean, that improves aesthetics. Remember you could have volume, but if it has no defined shape, won't look like well.

It's good to enlarge the fact of improving the heart beating in a big part because it makes the existent vessels wider, what reduces the heart work inclusive when you rest. Also, it holds away  the LDL-cholesterol (the bad one) and triglicerides, very related to hypertension.

Plus, it makes the vascularization more efficient, allowing  the blod to reach the parts of your body  where it made so difficult before.

If the exercise in general puts the body under  a constant renovation process, the aerobics are notable because  allows to regenerate the neurones,  your nervous cells.  And that is the explanation of improving  your cognitive levels, adding of course habits like reading , the academic study, and the memory games even.

And if this seems little, it decreases the adrenaline levels,  the stress-related hormone, increasing endorphines instead, the hormones  those give us the sensation of satisfaction.

Don't forget the aerobics improve the breathing, what increases stamina, so it allows to support the physical work for better.

If we add to all this the fact of practicing it outdoors, preferently natural, we see the benefit multiplies, and that is the intention of Félix Oviedo and  the Perfect Body staff who got involved into the beach activity.

"This is the sixth time we already do aerobics at the beach," he adds.

If you want to know when his next activity will take, you can follow him on his Facebook fanpage.

Finally, you must know that the World Health Organization recommends at least  30 minutes of daily physical activity someway, or 15 minutes per day  in intense mode at least, and before attending an aerobics class,  visit your most reliable cardiologist for determining your perfect time and rythm for you by an effort test.

So, let's go to the beach for working out?

Balls, but another kind

Sports as a public policy demands creativity to change, adapt and include.

By ChulucanasGym. Photos by La Unión District Municipality.

When local administrations promote sports activities, the same ones are almost ever chosen: soccer and volley, becoming a gender role segregation.

Then, somebody decides to break up this circle (not vicious because it’s sports, neither virtous because it forces polarizations) and bets for something not to segregate, to be the same old thing neither. But, what happens if existent understructure is only thought for soccer and volley, and much for soccer?

That’s the La Unión (pronounce “La Oonion”) local government’s dilemma, in Lower Piura Valley, which officers had the chance to stay freeze, or make the cow jumping over the moon such as any sportsperson would do.

La Unión District Municipality is launching sports academies for this year. It left soccer and volley outside and began to explore another disciplines like athletism, but its actual understructure is not adequate for practicing it.

“We have a 4-lane athletic track when the mandatory is 16,” municipality’s social and touristic vice manager Teresa santos tells us.

They tried another options as table tennis and basketball.

As there are not adequate spaces for practicing table tennis, the municipality set up a library’s room for put on two game tables and start up the calling and selection of 8-10 year-old 59 boys and girls.

Peruvian Institute of Sports support them on this effort.

About basketball, things were pretty easy because there are actually .set-up fields for playing it, and calling is going to be open for 11-12 year-old boys and girls.

Table tennis academy was launched last June, and basketball’s one is scheduled to begin this July. The intttention is discovering and promote new local sports talents, and getting good scores in School Sports Games.

Inclusion and health

The challenge of this municipality will be keeping its inclusion standards, those made it 2016 Municipal Seal national winner. As they say, they were implemented integrative policies for children, teenagers, youth and seniors, as well as disabled people, which they will have to preserve for incorporate them academies management and creation of healthy spaces.

Regarding, they also will have to work investment projects for building, fixing alternative sports spaces. Why not thinking of benefits for private places with access to public keeping the same inclusion criteria and standards?

Parallelly, the municipality has to set this achieve to prevention of bullying, domestic violence and teenage pregnancy, what seem to be working isolated initiatives about.

The another issue what it must solve is the access to basic services as current water, about there is a Peru’s Ombudsman Office’s report denouncing its apparent pollution, that affects around 10000 people at least. District’s mayor Walter Ayala says the issue is his priority, and concrete sustainable actions are expected.

Since sports are part of physical and mental health, all those points must be solved methodically to guarantee spaces and moments of formation, amusement, and evolution for everybody.

 Tell us if your public or private organization  has an alternative approach to sports. Write us down at chulucanasgym@gmail.com

Post-produced by Sheyla Benavente.

The benefits of the placebo effect

A strategy to improve the treatment of chronic illnesses.

 

Every year around the world, there are millions of people diagnosed with a chronic illness, what means a set of conditions weakening the health in the long-term that, if not having immediate attention, can get worse as the time goes by. Some people asume the news as a death sentence despite the strategies and the treatments have advanced so significantly in the last three decades.

 

In fact, many of them are now designed to attack the existent ill more precise, reducing the disgusting secondary effects they used to cause years ago. But the conventional medicine won’t be useful if the patient doesn’t adopt an attitude going beyond the active principles and the prescribed doses.

 

The self-convincement of a future improvement to experience plays in a big part for dealing and even surviving the chronic illnesses. The holism insists that the mind plays much in the recuperation processes of the person, even provided to be adequately harmonized.

 

This flow suggests the human body prones to get ill or to attract the illness if the deharmonization vulnerates it. The problem aggravates if we believe there are people or stuff that can propitiate such illnesses. That’s called nocebo effect. An example is the charm or the witchcraft.

 

There is a division among who practice the holism about if it must or must not add to conventional medicine. However, independent specialists advise to add for improving the effects and guaranteeing the success of treatments. But, if the holistic theory of every illness breaks out by the accumulation of wrong decisions or guilt between the conception and the 12-year-old is taken, is it possible to reverse the frame?

 

The opposite of nocebo effect is the placebo effect, that doesn’t refer only to the wellness sensation based upon somebody or something, but how it is conducted until getting an eventual cure. A first step is the manner how the treatment or healing plan is provided. The attitude of the healing person (a medical doctor, a therapist) based on just giving the prescription helps but it doesn’t necessarily contribute to the cure.

 

Many times, what catalyses the success of treatment is releasing the whole negative mental energy of the folk. Knowing to listen, and based upon that, knowing to advise or to guide results favoring the healing of the people. That’s why patients with chronic illnesses that have a good attention quality react better and, if they don’t heal at all, approach to a state that makes the ill to be easily manageable.

 

But, what happens when the patients comes back home?There are ways to complement the achievement of the treatment in the clinic space, what doesn’t mean turning the home into another hospital but to follow up a very advantageous strategy, and that, with the adequate attitude, will help widely the person to recuperate.

 

If we start from that the mind contributes much in the healing processes, the basis of everything is the self-valuation and releasing the guilty feeling. If many illnesses can be acquired by the uncare, for good, it must do a break-up and get aware that as much as we propitiate the cause, we can propitiate the cure. That attitude depends on the individual.

 

It’s the same if we didn’t put our lives in risk but we were exposed to by other people. In this sense, knowing to manage the resentment can be healthier than only following up the treatment exactly as prescribed. Forgiving yourself and forgiving someone else is the other ingredient. Upon those two basis, here we introduce a plan that will favor any healing process, but that, we recommend, must be agreed with specialists to assure its effectiveness.

 

1. Healthy feeding: They say that the ill person who eats, doesn’t die, and that’s pretty true. But, ever have to choose that healthy and natural food, if possible. Specialists in nutrition can help us much, although reliable websites can also help us in the effort. The hydration and the medical treatment itself are here too. Everything is complementary.
2.  Leave me breathness: The people forget completely that the air we breathe influences in our body processes, so while it’s purest, they will be better, especially the fluid stream and the own breathing process. Then, it must guarantee the air quality.
3.  Educate your senses: The soul also feeds and it does through the senses. If we don’t care what we see, feel, and hear –also what we eat and breathe—, we will generate a disorder that won’t favor the body. The noise, the graphic violence, and the physical mistreatment, just mentioning some examples, raise our stress levels and contribute to open the door to the health deterioration. Then, we should look for the opposite.
4.  Manage your emotions: We, the people, ever must fight to generate tranquility and harmony environments. The addition of the three first points favor such state. There will be a time for everything, for sure, but the idea is the negative emotions don’t become constant, if not, they will disturb any effort to balance mind, body, and space.

 

As a necessary complement, the physical activity is important. We must agree with the specialists who examine us wwhich one would be the most adequate for our healing process, but never –unless they order the opposite— it must prescind on it. Let’s remember that, like the other alive beings, the human body was designed for the action.

 

The model featured on this entry is Christiam Tineo.

The Baró Strategy

Four steps for Peru to walk on to sports excellence.

By Nelson Peñaherrera. Photos by Estany Tineo.

About three decades ago, Peru’s Olympic Committee began to have Cuba’s spors specialists for increasing our achievement in diverse events.

As part of that tradition, René Baró, 56, master for Havana University’s Manuel Fajardo National Sports Institute, arrived into our contry five years ago, being initially assigned to Tacnna, but we have him in Piura a year ago.

One of his challenges is discovering and training table tennis new talents in La Unión (Lower Piura) , where there is already a significant group of boys and girls preparing on. “The Municipality is giving me all its availability,” he clears.

Baró is trying to introduce the Cuban model that became successful in every sports competition or the majority of them, at least, including Olympics. “If you compare the amount of medals Cuba has got per inhabitant versus the amount of medals United States has got per inhabitant, you’ll see Cuba has got many more gathered,” he explains me.

However, a first element of resistance is Peruvian idiosyncracy that judges everything, that seems to accomplish what the worst enemy of a Peruvian is another Peruvian, that has a huge skill to cheat. And all this affects the sport achievement.

Is there a solution to the problem? Mr Baró thinks yes, and he has a strategy that can work even provided we truly apply it.

1. Building a pyramid

The most extended Sports policy in Peru continues to be promoting soccer and volley, ignoring there are most sports and disciplines fit to our biotype (the general configuration  of our bodies), which highlights our small height. Curiously,this could be our strength if we focus on successful results.

“Piura can be a good place to promote the fighting sports like judo, karate or olympic wrestling,” Baró suggests. “Also gymnastics, athletism, or table tennis.”

Talent detection has be to base on worldwide standarized tests, those leave out lobbies, social status or buddies network.

“Then, once you detect them, enter them in a County’s High Achievement Center, where they live intern for receiving academic instruction and controlled sports training,” he explains. “It got to be one center in every Peru’s county.”

The best county talents can be promoted to a State’s High Achievement Center, and who highlight in that level, reaching to a National High Achievement Center.

“There you have the three levels of the pyramid, and if you apply them, you’ll see that sports in Peru improve a lot,” Baró assures.

2. The art of sport is based on its science

The thesis that René Baró wrote in Cuba for graduating begins explaining the bio-psycho-social reality of the sport, what means it obbeys to anatomic and physiologic processes, it much involves the mental state of who practices it, and it is an integrative element to our community.

How many Physical Education teachers, trainers know it? “In Piura, there’s much empiricism,” Baró Observes. “It’s necessary to have seminars with the people, make them to understand that sports obbey to a system and a methology,” he points out.

“The two strongest problems here are few motor skills and laterality,” the specialist states, to have the right positions that reflects when we don’t know for practicing every sport… and  we often confuse right and left.

“That’s why it’s important education on physical culture since they’re littles, not for holding a weight but for get familiar to moves and spaces,” he comments.

The another aspect to remember is the minimum and maximum ideal age for start up in any sport or discipline.

3. The best sportspersons have a high instruction level

For René Baró, good sportsperson is the opposite to brain weakness. The person must manage all the information related to what practices for the performance to be good and better.

The specialist reminds that in Cuba, the academic instruction levels are high –like studies of international organisms prove- focusing not only on Maths and Language but all sciences and arts, so the person has a wide culture and a pretty accurate criteria. If that one practices sports, that reflects inmediatly as excellent results – high competitivity.

“The two basic elements of every sportsperson are instruction and communication – knows how to act, knows how to express,” he underlines.

Inclusive, Baró suggests the public TV turns into  a tele-school combining in-room and out-room criteria allowing to every person to obtain better scores when upgrading.

Thus, if violence continues to be exploited, we’ll still have a violent country.

He also recommends to prefer Internet as source of investigation before amusement. If not, we’ll still have a society only consuming but not evolving.

4. No negative attitude

The fable tells that Peruvian crabs were put inside a cube and Japanese crabs in another one. They were requested to look for a leader. Peruvian crabs fought to lead the rest while the others pull them down, so all the crowd finished moving in circles inside the cube. In Japanese case, one led and the rest began to follow it in line.

The lack of discipline, courage and self-steeme are, from Baro’s perspective, the factors those unallow the Peruvian sport to be a world potence despite having much talent.

“The Peruvians see a stronger challenger and they inmediatly have a negative vision of them-selves, when a sportsperson must go out to fight,” Baro criticizes.

When negative vision is not self-suggested, there will be ever another compatriot who reminds it. From discouragement to another discouragement, it’s not able to reach anywhere, like the crabs inside the cube.

Post-produced by Sheyla Benavente.

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