After a well-deserved vacation, in September it was time to go back to 'cole' and, with that, all the students have to return to their routines. Do not miss this interesting article from the Adidas Blog, in which Martita Ortega tells us how she organizes to combine her training with her academic obligations.
Padel World Press .- Now that the 2016-2017 academic year begins, I wanted to show you my point of view on how paddle tennis and studies can be combined. From the outset, if we want to dedicate ourselves more to a professional level, it may seem crazy to combine classes, exams, notes and study hours with the Workout and matches… However, with good planning, along with a dose of effort and great sacrifice, it can be achieved.
In the first place, we would have to differentiate the intensity of the paddle that we are going to practice. If our path is directed to an amateur padel, there is no doubt that combining the shovel and the studies will be positive. The practice of a sport throughout your academic training will constitute an escape valve, for example, during the exam period. It will become a formula to distribute our time and the key to better adapt to learning that, on the other hand, will redound to your benefit.
On the contrary, if we talk about the practice of a paddle at a professional level, concepts change and combining both activities is difficult, although not impossible. Many are the athletes who are pursuing university degrees and the progression is, fortunately, increasing. We all know that sports life is not very long and, therefore, it is increasingly important to prepare for that future that, although it may seem like it, is not so far away. When the moment of your retirement arrives, or when an unfortunate injury occurs that forces you to leave it… What will you do then? Boys and girls who still have time to pursue a degree and not stop studying: your future will always be more important than your present. Seek him, be as ambitious in life as you are on the court.
As you know almost all, I've been competing since I was very small and almost to where my memory reaches in my hand they have always alternated the shovel and the notes. In my school stage, synchronization was relatively easy ... And I say relatively because it has always involved an effort, an almost millimeter distribution of time and the invaluable help of my parents, whose family routine has been directed almost exclusively to favor and facilitate my workouts , the competition and my studies.
With my passage to the University I have come across a completely different reality. Nobody escapes that the University is not the school and, if you also practice a sport at a professional level, things get even more complicated.
Despite everything I must say that although it has been hard it has also been enriching because I have discovered that the values that paddle tennis has instilled in me, such as discipline, effort, commitment and will, are an advantage when studying my career and have helped me to find the perfect strategy that has allowed me to continue training, competing in the best paddle circuit of the world and to leave absolutely victorious in my first course in the faculty.
This strategy consists in an intelligent management of your time and in an effective planning of your daily rhythm (there will be moments that you can devote more to the studies and less to the training and vice versa) Everything will depend on the times of exams and the dates of competition ).
So close we have the Olympic Games of Rio, which have been held in the month of August, and you should know that in the Faculty of Medicine of the UCM There have been several of my colleagues who have come to represent Spain and are students who are in advanced courses. They are perfectly combining sport and studies, then it is not a chimera: It can and deserves very and very much worth it !!
Working, striving, making good use of time, organizing yourself, your will and, why not, your personal ambition, will be the keys to combining paddle tennis and your studies. Do not abandon neither one nor the other. With dedication you can achieve both and enjoy the good that this pairing will provide you.
Finally, there is nothing wiser than the Spanish proverb (or so they say hehe) ... So heed the saying: "Every effort has its reward."
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