Dedicated to an old and stoic friend, Tim Rowbottom.
The essence of a stoic athlete is that they will move well irregardless of external influences.
Athletes are not disturbed by competition, but by their viewpoint about the competition.
A gym, sports ground, or recreation centre is not adorned by trophies or pennants, but by the virtue of those whom move humanely within it.
They who exercise wisely, exercise optimally.
To be uneducated is to experience misfortune. To begin ones education is to make the attempt. To be accepting of oneself and others shows that ones education is Complete.
To fail at the skill is to be untrained. To train in hardship is the beginning of…
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The racket sport of squash uses every muscle in the whole body, thus squash players should train every muscle in their whole body. ESPECIALLY the stability muscles. How many stability muscles are there?
Squash is a thinking persons game, thus train your mind as you train your body. Sports psychological training is highly useful, visit a psychologist regularly even if you’re not a nut case. Do you think psychological wellbeing doesn’t need a psychologist?
Read the rules of squash, at least once a year. What is rule 3.1?
Squash is typically played using only one hand, thus utilise offset weights training to redress that body imbalance that comes from playing squash. Which side of your body is your non preferred side?
Squash players run, walk, sprint, jog, lunge, dive, stretch, chasse, side step, cross step and leap. Thus train for those. Try dancing, aerobics, calisthenics and/or martial arts for your footwork cross training. Where is your closest martial artist instructor? Who will you dance with?
Squash players movement to the ball is acceleration and deceleration, thus train for those, and facilitate having a high power to weight ratio. What is the science of physics? Biomechanics?
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Many squash matches last between 15 minutes and 50 minutes, rarely a match will go out to 120 minutes. Thus train for those normal durations and intensities using the principle of specificity. Which smartphone app will serve your timing needs competently?
Squash has a wide variation of hardness of hitting, from super soft delicate drop shots, to medium weight boasts and lobs, to extreme hard over hit drives. Apply a scale, perhaps 1 through 10 to fine tune your correct weight hitting. Is 1 through 10 finely graduated enough for your skill level?
Understand the tournament or pennant rules, they won’t be in the squash rulebook, but will still need to be abided by. Do the tournament rules change with each tournament?
Injuries are going to happen, but they are preventable. Get a good physiotherapist and regularly do their advised exercises. What is a niggle you can play through in competition? What is a niggle in training that says “STOP”?
Physical rest and recovery IS TRAINING. Psychological rest and recovery is necessary. Total rest is sleep, get plenty of quality sleep, much healing and adaption is done unconsciously. If your “rest” is active, be wary of over training; Is a light sweat total rest?
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On court squash athletes are responsible for all our actions and inactions, off court the same – and yes build a team and commit to quality team culture within the team. How will your top sponsor respond to your on court emotional outburst whilst wearing their logo?
Some members of the team are… general practicioner, dietician, chef, physiotherapist, skills coach, psychologist, psychiatrist, lead coach, administrator, training partners, legal counsel, promoter, athletic team mates, fitness instructor and/or personal trainer, massager, … what other roles do you want on your team? Do you want a motivational mascot? A singer? A seamstress? A sponsor? A comedian?
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It’s a simple mnemonic to make it easier to become successful.
Do you actually want to do things the super duper easy way? If not, why do you want to do them the hard way? Or just the average way? Optimisation of your motivation is necessary.
You can count to ten, I presume. Thus you are already a mathematician, in the most basic sense of the word. You can do one plus one equals two, thus you can achieve addition, and addition is a component of mathematics.
What else do you want to achieve with mathematics?
In the australian curriculum, which I can access entirely for free online, I’ll discover :
In the australian curriculum, which WE can access entirely for free online, we’ll discover :
In the australian curriculum, which YOU can access entirely for free online, you’ll discover :
Why have i written three versions of the above sentence? Which do you find most motivating? Do any of those inspire the clicking of the linky?
If i put in ten minutes of mathematics study five days a week with the given materials within the textbook or online stuff, then I can know that the fifty minutes of study will contribute towards myself improving at mathematics that I studied.
If I don’t do the ten minutes of study five days a week for this week, then this week I won’t be working towards the goal of improving my mathematical skills.
Which is motivating for yourself?
Do you need someone else to kick you in the pants to get motivated?
Do you prefer to self-motivate?
What motivates yourself?
Do you truly know what motivates yourself?
What demotivates yourself? Does getting drunk on friday night motivate you to get up on saturday morning and study mathematics?
Will that half bag of marijuana help you understand probabilities?… it might.
What is the probability that I will do two hours of probability study if I get massively stoned right now?
Test it yourself. I have, my answer was less than zero point five percent.
Motivation comes AFTER doing something motivating. You feel good AFTER you’ve done something good.
Don’t be thinking, I’m going to study only when I feel like studying. What if you never feel like studying? You just going to give up because that is how you feel? Do your dreams, aims and goals NEED you to study?
If i don’t do anything at all, what have I achieved?
Given that I need to study to get more educated, to become more useful to society and myself, if i don’t study mathematics – what’s going to happen to me?
I choose to do this fifteen minutes of study right now, even though I am feeling down and tired, because I know that just doing the next fifteen minutes moves me forward. Afterwards I will feel comfortable because I made the effort and can relax and chill out for a bit and get back into study at such n such a time and place, on such and such a topic.
What is your next topic?
This topic was on “Chance” within the Statistics and Probability stream of year 10 mathematics.
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