With the rigid body, as if he had suffered a muscle stretch, tennis player Bia Haddad barely ran on the court, taking defensible points and endangered, at the premiere, her participation in the US Open. He even withdrawn as if he had no strength or mood.
Even so, the Brazilian managed to beat that third set and, consequently, the game, the first of its so far victorious journey in Slam US. I write before your round of 16 departure on Monday night (1).
After the debut victory, Bia told ESPN Brazil that there was nothing wrong with the body, that her “battle was much more internal than external.” He faced, as he said, “We thought they came.” “I’m happy with my inner battle, I’m glad I got one more chance.”
It is not uncommon to see tennis players running little, as if they had lost their interest in the game. Sometimes “exile” on the court may be strategic in order to gather strength for the next set, but it is strange someone to practice robotic movements, as if they could not flex the body. Would the “thoughts that came” of Bia be the reason for that?
I myself have suffered something similar, but in the Olympic pool, which seems more understandable, as there is a risk of death in the water. The amateur triathlete Fabiano Pereira also experienced difficult times in the sea of Santos, in a sprint race (with 750 meters of swimming) of the Brazil trophy.
Starting in the sport, but confident due to a previous result, he called the whole family to see him. But with an anxiety crisis and a lot of “chest pressure”, he aborted in the first strokes and asked “Steward” for help. The kayaking inspector suggested that he would open his swimming clothes a little, which only worsened things. Eventually left the sea rescued.
Why do we stop?
For the sport psychologist Wania Rennó, from São Paulo, the high self -extent of high -performance athletes can lead to a paralyzing anxiety crisis. “The athlete begins to think too much about his own movements, interrupts the natural automatism of the body.”
For her, the “mind is the engine”, and, in the case of amateurs, which it also meets, the obsessive idea of loss of control in certain situations, such as swimming for triathletes, can become a self -realizable prophecy and lead to anxiety, to raise heart beats, paralysis, when not panic.
“Among triathletes, this behavior is always in water, never on the bike or race that they can control.”
In a recent column on “self -sabotage” for the webrun portal, Wania wrote that “if you believe, even unconsciously, that you do not deserve, you can’t or have no capacity, your behavior will find a way to confirm this belief.”
If Bia faced something like that, he managed to find an antidote somewhere, what Wania calls “balance.”
This balance can be trained. Wania usually uses a kind of socratic maieutic in her office. As soon as a corridor tells her that she fails to fear, for example, “break” (not being able to keep the pace or leave a test), she asks, “Why would you break?” And the answer to this question gives rise to many other questions.
The idea, I think, this did not ask her, is that we have the ability to use our own “personal” Socrates to inquire at the most suffered time.
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