Regardless of your level, type of physical activity you do, intensity or your physical characteristic (height, weight), one of the benefits of sport is to make you more resilient. So in this short article, we will be looking at resilience and how can sport help you to build stronger one.

What is resilience ?

Based on Wikipedia, Resilience is defined as: the ability to mentally or emotionally cope with a crisis or to return to pre-crisis status quickly. Resilience exists when the person uses “mental processes and behaviors in promoting personal assets and protecting self from the potential negative effects of stressors”.

Why is resilience important ?

Resilience is important because it is part of your life and will be forever, no matter the life phase you are in. It will help you in any situations to bounce back and become stronger mentally. Based on many research studies and findings, greater resilience will…

• leads to improved learning and academic achievements
• promotes lower absences from work or school due to sickness
• contributes to reduced risk-taking behaviors including excessive drinking, smoking, and use of drugs
• contributes to be more involved in the community and/or family activities
• relates to a lower rate of mortality and increased physical health

How Sport can helps in building you stronger resilience ?

So now when talking about sport activity, how does this help you to build stronger resilience ? Here are the top 5 reasons:

1. Sport is a temporary emotional lab you can tap in when you want. It will put in you various states of emotions, comfortable and
2. Sport is time boxed and put you out of your comfort zone, which ultimately makes you develop subconsciously additional strengths that make you more resilient
3. Sport activity is a process with a start and a finish, where in between you experience adversity. Responding positively to adversity, teaches you to become more resilient and stimulate your brain to find new support mechanism
4. Sport helps you to develop a growth mindset, which is an essential catalyst of stronger resilience
5. In sport you are likely to face more defeats than victories, like in life. And the more you lose, the more you learn and become stronger.
   

Summary

In summary, sport practice (irrespective of your level) is a great way to build a better you physically and mentally. It is good for you and good for people around you. The key is develop a growth and flexible mindset when facing difficulty, adversity, pain, discomfort, rejection (you are perhaps put on bench for a football game), unfairness (when you dominate a complete tennis match but miss all important points) or defeats. It is not about why it is happening to you but more on how you respond to it.

The Bad news is that in sport like in life s*** happens.

The Good news is that is temporary and it is making you stronger.

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