It is said that 66% of motor skills are determined by heredity. What do you imagine when you hear this?
There are more than 30 other abilities in athletic ability: running, flying, throwing, swimming, stopping, pushing, pulling, grabbing, swinging: movement with changes in posture and stability, movement with movement of the center of gravity, and movement to manipulate people and objects.
You have various athletic skills, and I think that there are things that each person is not good at and good at.
It is said that about 50% of the endurance athletic ability is affected by genetic factors, especially the mother's heredity rather than fathers.
In my case, I have found that the muscle strength of the instantaneous system is genetically weak and that muscle endurance is moderately strong, according to a genetic test that I received about three years ago. Fathers are completely instantaneous, but I feel strongly influenced by their mothers because they were not.
In my childhood, I may have had higher athletic skills than the children around me, but no matter how high I estimate it, it was above the middle.
I didn't have enough athletic skills that would be necessary to become a professional soccer player, but I started playing soccer under the influence of my brother and sister, and now I can live with professional footballers as I work, but I have experienced various psychological and physical phases in the process.
I couldn't think about this phase in a solid way, so I took everything as a story, and there were a lot of contradictions in myself.
Each phase has a different way of thinking and working on me, and the environment and psychological state are completely different depending on each phase. By preparing such "prerequisites", I would like to be able to see myself at a higher resolution.
And the question that I was pouring down into me every time that phase shifted was "Why am I playing soccer?"
[table of contents]
The phase that has been aiming only at results
What is the purpose of practicing?
A way of life that does not depend on the goal
How to perceive means and objectives
The phase that has been aiming only at results
There was an era of phases where I was only pursuing results. I wrote this in note before, but it is an era of lonelinessism.
This way of life of solitary supremacy, as the note says, was terribly poor in my heart. Anyway, it is painful. Even so, I was able to feel the connection with others in it, so I was able to endure it.
In order to make up for the difference in athletic skills with various things, I was pursuing results through try and error. When the goal was scored, I was relieved, and if I was not decided, I would be worried, and the result of the goal influenced my mental state.
When I think about it now, it's a very unhealthy state (laughs). My life depends on the goal, and the psychological state changes depending on the result.
I think it was a real miracle to be the top scorer in the Bundesliga in such a situation, and it was a result of being the top scorer over such a wave of roller coasters in such a psychological state, so my heart was quite filled with a sense of accomplishment.
However, I don't think I would have been able to be in my current position if I hadn't been able to produce results at that time, so I never thought it was a mistake, and I don't regret it because I was able to connect to people who would not be able to connect unless I went to that position.
Anyway, I lived for a while in the preofiering phase that I could only prove my worth by producing results.
And I practiced every day with the goal of achieving this goal with various goals like this, such as getting results, winning positions, winning matches, winning titles, winning top scorers, and playing with that in the game.
But why do you want to achieve these goals? I did not think about the purpose. This caused me to burn out, and since I won the Bundesliga top scorer in 2013, my life without finding a goal has been a "obstacle" to continuing football.
What is the purpose of practicing?
Sports include practice and games. There are practices to perform in the game. How do you view the purpose of this practice? Depending on how you perform in the game, the way you perform will change.
I now see these two main objectives as a team and individual.
(1) Be able to do things that you can't do
(2) Increase reproducibility (increase the certainty of what can be done)
It's incredibly simple.
To be able to do things you can't do, recognize what you can and can't do. Only when this can be done can we proceed with these on two axes.
However, if you only do (2), you will be in a state where you can only do the same thing. So, by firmly separating the axes of (1) and (2), you need to recognize where you are in the current phase and work on the issues.
In the case of Japan (I think this is also depending on the team), I personally feel that the ratio of (2) is high. In addition, the percentage of (2) increases as the game approaches. (1) I feel that it is important to create such an environment for coaches because we have to be able to do it without fear of making mistakes, and I think it is important for the same players to create such an atmosphere.
There was a time when I felt uncomfortable that the purpose of the practice was not verbalized by thinking about the purpose of practice in this way, and not the purpose for "victory" in the near term or "result".
You do Practice is to win a game. So why do you want to win?
You do Practice is to win the title. So why do you want to win the title?
Of course, there are wins and losses in the sport of soccer, and on a global, there are tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup and the IOC-sponsored Olympics. In a familiar way, I think it's a world where it's easy to set big goals, such as winning leagues, winning the Champions League, and moving to big clubs.
Therefore, the practice for me was only to position it "to get a result", and there was a sense of obligation in no small way, and sometimes the feeling that it was necessary to do was stronger than the feeling of wanting to do it.
Then why are you aiming there? Why do you want to get results? Why do you want to win? Why You want to win a gold medal? At some point, I realized that I couldn't explain why.
Yes, I have not had a long sense of purpose in aiming for that goal. Or rather, I didn't even know its existence or importance.
A way of life that does not depend on the goal
At some point I noticed that I depended on time goals, positional goals. And I learned that there is also a way of life that is not such a way of life.
I was bound only by having time and positional goals, and when the result came out, I was worried about joy and sorrow, and the ups and downs of my mood led a very intense life. Still, I was going to have devised various things to keep it constant somehow, but the exhaustion by it was more intense than I thought.
It was just around that time that I had a little awareness of the Japan National Team (in 2016, on the last day of my second overseas tour as Coach Takakura, I told the coach that I wanted to concentrate on the club team for a while).
What am I playing soccer for? Why do I need to play for the national team? Why is there a self who is attached here until I feel this way?
It wasn't all that I didn't like, but I had a sense of losing something, and at that time I had no idea what it was.
Then, for about a year or so, I repeated my own questions. Of course, in the meantime, I was trying to talk to various people rather than thinking on my own, and at that time I learned that by talking with people, various thoughts are arranged, and that I can realize what I am feeling in the depths of my heart.
During that period, I felt like I was on a journey to find the purpose of playing soccer.
And, the transfer to the U.S. league just overlapped, and a new consciousness was born by changing the environment.
"Don't I have to set a goal?"
It is true that at first I felt resistance to athletes and this way of life. How does my life mean while most athletes are aiming to become Japanese national players and aim for the Olympics and world cup? Of course I wondered.
However, I realized that for me, the sense of purpose of "wanting to be able to do what I can' t do" and "enhancing the reproducibility of what I can do" was sufficient for the reason to continue playing football.
Of course, because it is a league where the extraordinary athleticism of "America" gathers, it is because the sense of values that continue to play in this league = to keep myself at the top of the world has sprung up, and above all, I feel more focused on moments when I feel purely enjoyable.
How to perceive means and objectives
I'm happy about the moment I can't do anything I can, and I feel that it's something that hasn't changed since I was a child.
After I started thinking about it, my daily life and my attitude of working on my own training have changed dramatically.
If you're a player, everyone wants to improve their performance (although some players don't think they do). The purpose of all training is "Performance Up", to increase flexibility, to improve muscle strength, to increase muscle endurance.
Then, the answer to the question "Why do you want to improve performance?" becomes different for each person. And I know that the deeper this sense of purpose, the greater the rate of growth that people who have their own answers (I feel strongly as an experience).
In my case, I have a sense of purpose, because I want to enjoy the competition at a higher level, to make the people who watch it more enjoyable and please, and to bring compassion and love to my teammates.
In the second and third, I personally think that if I can't do more, then I can't afford to play, so I always want to create a state where I can do any kind of support, so I think it's necessary to continue to be able to do things that I can't.
I don't think it's easy to continue to ask why for the purpose. That's a pretty painstaking task, and sometimes it changes from moment to moment depending on the situation.
However, after shifting to this way of life, I feel that the growth rate has increased rapidly, and above all, I feel comfortable feeling that I am liberated, and every day I have come to feel happier every day, and the worries and anxiety that I have been doing have been blown away.
If you have your own sense of purpose that does not shake there, it is possible to live a life that is not influenced by the result, does not worry about the result, has little fluctuation range of emotions, and at least you want to enjoy the competition for a long time, while keeping it to 80% before the limit rather than challenging at 120% beyond your limit every day, 120% of the height and quantity that I feel that it is more important to work to increase.
Is it a feeling of aiming at the last minute to 100%? Of course, it is first necessary to know where your limits are, so I think it is also necessary to know your limits while doing quantity first.
If you are an athlete, I think that it will be easy to understand if you can imagine such a feeling as doing it until you get injured.
There is a time when I also worked hard until I got injured, but as I continue to experience that kind of experience, I will be able to judge this feeling by the evidence I get from my body, such as a sign of injury or if it is this pain, I can still go.
Of course, there is a risk that this will lead to a major injury, but I think that kind of risk is attached to some extent in order to extend the limit.
While attacking at the last minute, I increase the strength.
Why do it?
All for performance up.
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