Sport Psychology – Master’s Degree Thesis in Clinical Psychology
December 7, 2021 was the day of my Master’s Degree Thesis in Clinical Psychology, a special moment in my life, which came after a long period of study, which lasted five years, which began with the three-year faculty of Psychological Sciences and Techniques and ended with the master’s faculty of Clinical and Rehabilitation Magistral Psychology, both held at the Unicusano-Telematic University of Rome.
The topic of the Thesis is: “Mental training in endurance sports, with particular attention to cycling.”
As a psychologist and athlete I do not deny that the psychology of sport, its effects on performance and its various applications, interest me particularly; as an athlete I was lucky enough to be able to work together with a professional, Paola Peccenini, so I can testify to the importance that work on oneself can cause in the mind of an athlete.
My many years of experience as an athlete led me to live with the fatigue and physical pain, typical of an endurance sport with cycling, following mentally and physically demanding races and training, which led me to have to deal with emotionally trying situations typical of this sport such as: performance anxiety, pre-race stress, mental management of fatigue, recovery from injuries, the difficulty of having to get involved, and compete for the achievement of a personal result and as a team, regardless of the commitments of study and work.
In light of this, I understood that I needed more support than mere athletic training, this work on myself as an individual, even before being an athlete, has allowed me to expand the ability to see reality, of which we are known. creators “reality reflects us because everything is a reflection of the observer who looks” with a methodology oriented to the achievement of a performance through the development of new thinking and action strategies, based on specific objectives.
After a long period of supported and autonomous work, where I had to face many difficulties in overcoming old thought patterns and re-establishing new ones, passing moments of crisis and ups and downs, I was able to find my inner dimension and be able to express it for what they are, discovering a new serenity in competitions.
The most particular and touching experience that I have experienced during the coaching work and then experienced in competitions is the State of Flow, a state of extreme concentration and focus in which every action is performed simultaneously with the exact moment in which it should happen. you feel in perfect sync with the whole world around us, life seems slowed down, you see things more clearly and you are able to make the right choice at the right time to get what you want.
To conclude this introduction to Sport Psychology and the motivation for the choice of the subject of my degree thesis, I would like to highlight the fact that it is too often forgotten that every athlete is a person, different from all the others, with his unrepeatable baggage. genetic, his complex personality (me) and his pulsating spirit, also forgetting that a man is not reducible to a set of headless metabolic mechanisms, but to much more complex systems.
“When suffering rises, feel it rise. When anxiety comes, let it come. If we observe our emotions carefully instead of believing them, they gradually lose their power over us. If we welcome fear, not even it will. more fear. ” (S.Brizzi)
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