In action. Giuliano Galoppo, in a simple and complex post meditation exercise on response times.
Football is more than just a sport for a long time. And in the 21st century it has become a discipline in which the players are not only footballers but also high performance athletes. This is why several subjects have been added that converge to enhance the work of those who take the field. It is no longer just about playing ball and running.
Meditation, a tool that is growing among soccer players, has been added to physical preparation, nutrition, psychology and neuroscience, among other disciplines. Several Argentine players have incorporated meditation into their routine. Among them, one of the figures of the local League, midfielder Giuliano Galoppo, who shone at Banfield and has just moved to San Paolo in Brazil for 8 million dollars.
For five years Gallop (23) has tried his hand at sports meditation. And today he goes to Brazilian football as one of the jewels of Argentine football and, surely, sooner or later, he will make the leap into European football.
“Gallop meditates every day alone with working guidelines and different types of meditation, which he exercises with a teacher,” he said. Clarione Marcos Pisoni (MN: 172.882 and MP: 235.098), physician specializing in sports medicine, has been at the Gallop for five years when the player had not yet made his debut in the First Division.
Giuliano Galoppo, in a concentration exercise, after meditation.
However, What benefits does meditation bring to the athlete? “It is a practice that has implications for improvements in stress and anxiety reduction. We work to ensure that the player has a clear head and can make better decisions on the pitch. And at the same time it allows you to work on aspects that keep the athlete focused on their goals “, explained Pisoni in dialogue with this newspaper.
And how does meditation work? Used Awareness, which is a method of focusing attention on the present moment, and yoga is also practiced. Progressive relaxation and integration strategies are implemented. “Everyone has scientific evidence that they help tolerate more training loads”, said the sports medicine specialist. And after meditation, they make him do active work, which consists of an exercise in time, of simple and complex answers.
Giuliano Galoppo, together with Marcos Pisoni, specialist in sports medicine.
What is the purpose of these exercises? To be able to control the loads that the footballer has in the week so that he is better suited to daily work. “Internal load is the physical, psychological and chemical reaction to training. If there is a poor adaptation, the player does not improve what he needs to improve, his performance drops and he can even get injured ”, commented Pisoni.
With scientifically proven results, more and more institutions see the importance of meditation with the intention that their footballers do not scatter with the demands of the media and the whirlwind of today’s world.
Meditation works on permanent adaptation to the environment and the demands of all physical demands and activates the parasympathetic system, which serves to recover and reduce the hormone cortisol, which is activated by the chronic stress of overtraining. And the experiences are all over the world.
The doctor Marcos Pisoni, together with Nicolás Tagliafico, footballer of the national team, who also dabbled in meditation.
Barcelona, for example, published a guide to events that are stressful for athletes and can affect their physical and mental performance. These include daily training, overexertion, lifelong evaluation, negotiation with managers, lifelong evaluation of people, family problems and injuries. Meditation seems there to help remove all of these problems. And the German national team brought a yoga teacher to the 2014 World Cup.
Gallop is not the only player with whom Pisoni. In addition, he follows Nicolás Tagliafico, a player of Ajax and the Argentine national team, who also does yoga and is very fond of meditation.
One of the pioneers was Giovanni Simeone, who told him in an interview with Clarín four years ago. “I do meditation. Through breathing techniques. I learned a long time ago and he left me tools. Besides football, it’s good for me. It restores my balance when I feel I’m out of balance. I close my eyes, focus on breathing, calm down. Usually I do it at home and I let myself go, “Cholo’s son said at that moment. And currently he continues with that practice that is growing more and more in football.
Massimiliano Benozzi
Source: Clarin
