Estratégias de enfrentamento utilizadas por ciclistas de elite

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Rodrigo Guarnieri [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/156411; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/capelo/2018-03-20/000897548.pdf
• topic: Esportes - Aspectos psicológicos; Ciclismo; Ciclistas; Stress (Psicologia); Atletas; Motivação (Psicologia)

Cycling, as well as marathon, triathlon, race walking and others sports modalities, are considered endurance sports. Athletes who train and compete for more than two hours interrupt, day after day, need to have a high quality psychological input to withstand such stress. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze which coping strategies are used by cyclists to deal with stress and with sports difficulties. For this reason, the bibliographic review was adopted as a research method, aiming to understand how the athletes, mainly of cycling, are able to face enormous demands of work, with highly intense training, how the psychological pressure can interfere in the final result and how to deal with stress, minimizing the negative effect of anxiety, nervousness, pressure and other factors that can decrease the rider's performance. For this, the use of coping strategies is of paramount importance, with the use of directed mentalization, dissociation of the moment of suffering and pain with something that brings motivation and setting concrete goals that stimulate the cyclist will help the athlete to achieve the best performance. Finally, it is evident that the Sport Psychology should be treated as one of the main pillars in the development and preparation of athletes in general. With this, mental training must be carried out continuously to help the athletes become free from the negativity of the emotional factors that possibly can diminish the yield