Lauren Onojaife
Sports Psychology Graduate. Cricket Enthusiast. Keen Crossfitter. Working to Improve the Provision of PE & Sport in Primary Schools.
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CrossFit is a fitness regimen developed by a man called Greg Glassman. He defined fitness in a meaningful, measurable way - increased work capacity across broad time and modal domains. He then created a strength and conditioning program specifically designed to improve fitness and health. CrossFit is described as “constantly...
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Mayer and Salovey (1997:5) defined Emotional Intelligence (EI) as “the ability to perceive emotions, to assess and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth”. Petrides (2011:657) states that there are two...
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Coaching is far more than just teaching sports skills to individuals and teams. It is also about inspiring, giving confidence and motivating others by building quality relationships. You need to poses the emotional expertise in order to build those relationships with an individual or within a sports team. In sports...
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Superstitious rituals are defined as unusual, repetitive, rigid behaviour that is perceived to have a positive effect by the actor, whereas in reality there is no causal link between the behaviour and the outcome of an event (Womack, 1992). B. F. Skinner’s famous ‘Hungry Pidgeon’ experiment helps explain why sports...
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Ex-England cricket batsman Kevin Pietersen (KP) is in the limelight again as Paul Downton, the managing director of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) talks about the reasons behind KP’s early departure from international cricket. KP was controversially axed from the England side following the team’s 5-0 Ashes series...