By Lopez Lomong, Mark Tabb
Running for My Life isn't really a narrative approximately Africa or tune and box athletics. it's approximately outrunning the satan and reaching the most unlikely religion, diligence, and the will to offer again. it's the American dream come precise and a stark reminder that saving you could aid to avoid wasting millions more.
Lopez Lomong chronicles his inspiring ascent from a barefoot misplaced boy of the Sudanese Civil conflict to a Nike backed athlete at the US Olympic crew. although such a lot folks fall someplace among the catastrophic lows and dizzying highs of Lomong's amazing existence, each reader will locate in his tale the human spark to pursue goals that would appear unthinkable, even from situations that would seem hopeless.
"Lopez Lomong's tale is considered one of actual suggestion. His existence is a narrative of braveness, exertions, by no means giving up, and having desire the place there's hopelessness throughout. Lopez is a real function model." ―MICHAEL JOHNSON, Olympic Gold Medalist
"This actual tale of a Sudanese baby refugee who turned an Olympic big name is strong evidence that God provides desire to the hopeless and shines a mild within the darkest areas. Don't be shocked if after studying this magnificent story, you end up mysteriously attracted to run along him." ―RICHARD STEARNS, president, global imaginative and prescient US and writer of THe gap in Our Gospel
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A message to other coaches I found this chapter to be particularly relevant to those coaching at the youth development level. At this level we seem to want to specialize our players too early, and the information in this chapter provides us with some good evidence not to specialize too soon. Importantly, we may have to create organized practice sessions simply to provide deliberate play opportunities to the players. This sounds illogical but until the players get back to discovering and playing the game for themselves, we need to make up this shortfall in school and club settings on their behalf.
Implicit perceptual training approaches in which learning occurs without explicit attention being drawn to the essential cues (see Farrow and Raab, Chapter 10, for some specific examples) or training that makes greater use of guided discovery rather than explicit instruction (see Patterson and Lee, Chapter 9) may be more effective in the longer term for the acquisition of expert skill. Training for automaticity High levels of automaticity are also a hallmark of expert performance, yet relatively little evidence is yet available on how to effectively hasten the acquisition of expertise for sport tasks.
Even for those attributes in which clear expert–non-expert differences are known to exist, such as pattern recall, there is very little in the way of systematic evidence on the time course of the development of these attributes. Consequently, it is simply not possible, currently, to determine, with any certainty, the earliest time at which adult levels of performance on these key distinguishing attributes for experts can be accurately predicted. Even if such prediction eventually proves possible, the evidence on the developmental histories of current sport experts cautions against using early identification to promote early sport specialization.