“It is essential for parents to understand!”

In provocative times from all points of view, athletes tend to resort more and more to specialists in optimizing mental performance. Yesterday an inaccessible moft, today a necessity, the ability to consult a mental is increasingly rooting in the mentality of the athletes in Romania, the examples being multiple.

The newspaper asked Mihaela Jeremic, ex-voleaBalist top in Romania, which became a mental coach after withdrawal, who experience when the athletes in activity pass the threshold of her office.

“The coaches and parents need to understand that the mental part is very important”

“Even though trust was the quality that helped me the most in my career, during these years I realized how important it is to be mentally prepared to be able to face situations that do not necessarily depend on you.

In my last year I was part of a young team and I can say that this helped me the most to decide, Because there I felt the most that there is a need for mental training in sports and the faster you do this, the better.

It is essential that athletes, coaches, but also parents understand that the mental part is very important. You can't get an elite athlete if you omit this, It's like you're doing performance sports but you're just going to the matches on Saturdays. Then, if the sport becomes a burden to those who practice it, it does not bring any benefit in personal life. I think, many times, people are waiting for that moment when they tell themselves that they can not or begin to doubt them and their decisions to make this decision to work with someone, ”confessed Mihaela Jeremic, in dialogue with gsp.ro.

“I was missing this song in my career”

The former volleyball player, who won Challenge Cup in 2016, along with CSM Bucharest, reveals that he has acutely felt the lack of mental guidance in the first part of the career:

“I think it's that song that I lacked in my career. I had times when I felt powerlessI made inappropriate decisions, I even had a moment of depression between two seasons and I went out of it.

This was definitely missing, because if I look in the past with what I know now, I see things totally different. Also, there were many girls in my generation who were perspective and gave up sports precisely because they did not cope with difficult situations, injuries, etc.

First of all, it is not necessary to have a challenge to work with a mental coach. Working with a mental coach can help you see the challenges differently before it appears, it guides you to form a healthy mentality, to set the right goals.

But, to answer directly, yes, it is absolutely necessary and I do not say it because I do this now, but I say because I see what the athletes can when I choose to work on the mental side, so I am glad when I see in the press the high -level athletes who talk about the importance of mental workouts. I encourage everyone to make this decision. ”

“The mental coach is like a coach for the mind”

Mihaela Jeremic explains the difference between the job of mental coach and that of sports psychologist:

“A mental coach focuses on developing athletes's mental skills to improve the performance, management of emotions and concentration. It uses techniques such as visualization, setting goals and training resilience, but does not treat clinical problems.

A sports psychologist is a specialist with training in psychology, having the right to diagnose and treat emotional or psychological problems that can affect performance, such as anxiety, depression or traumas.

In short, the mental coach is like a coach for the mind, and the sports psychologist is the doctor dealing with the deeper aspects of mental health”.

I work mainly with the athletes, this is my long -term goal, I can guide as many performance athletes, but I do not say no to people who are not part of the sports world. In general, people who want to develop their self-confidence come to me.

– Mihaela Jeremic, Mental Coach