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Ask a psychologist

Sports psychologist Irina Kozyr explains what athletes need to do when it is difficult to focus due to stress, external noise and other factors.

Ask a Psychologist: How to Maintain Concentration?

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In the new episode of the Ask a Psychologist column, Irina Kozyr gives recommendations for successfully combining education and sports.

Ask a Psychologist: How to find a balance between education and sports?

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Irina Kozyr explains in the new episode of the section how to help a young athlete to believe in herself, why she can lose this belief and how to support her at such moment.

Ask a Psychologist: How to help a child to believe in herself?

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Alina Kabaeva

Сongratulations from the Olympic champion.

Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva congratulates Tatyana Sergaeva on her appointment as Head coach of the Russian national team

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Opinion

At the Russian Championship, Academy gymnast Anna Vakulenko from Volgograd won bronze in the team event as part of the Volgograd Region team.

Anna Vakulenko shares her impressions after the end of the Russian Championship

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Academy coach Zlata Tulubaeva worked as the Head judge at the interregional Southern and North Caucasian Federal Districts  Sky Grace Tournaments.

"Fair judging is the priority of our rules." Zlata Tulubaeva on the Sky Grace Tournament

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The Nizhny Novgorod Region group exercises team born in 2012, Ekaterina Voitkova, Ulyana Romanenko, Sofia Kalinina, Varvara Volkova, Olesya Samarina and Yana Shabanova, became champions of the Sky Grace tournament group exercises in the Volga Federal District.

Nizhny Novgorod group exercise team gymnasts talk about preparation for the Sky Grace Tournament

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Alisa Medvedeva, the gymnast of the North Olympic Reserve Sport School, ranked 11th in the all-around finals at the Russian championship that ended in Moscow.

"I will root for the girls from the Sky Grace." Alisa Medvedeva talks about the performance of Academy gymnasts at the Russian championship

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Competitions

At the competition, the athlete represented the Rhythmic Gymnastics Association of Armenia and performed exercises with five apparatus.

Stella Sirekanyan from Armenia performs at the interregional Sky Grace Tournament" in Sirius at the invitation of the organizers

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Academy Life

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The Academy gymnast Mariia Borisova from St. Petersburg became the champion of Russia. Irina Gusarova's student showed the best result in the all-around final based on the total points for four types of the program.

The Russian Championship ends with the victory of the Academy gymnast Mariia Borisova. REN TV news segment

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Marina Andrienko is also the president of the Altai public organization, the Elans Athletic Center.

"This is a huge contribution to the development of world gymnastics." Coach Marina Andrienko speaks on the International Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Clubs Association tournaments

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Academy gymnast Mariia Borisova from St. Petersburg became the champion of Russia.

Academy gymnast Mariia Borisova is the champion of Russia!

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Irina Kozyr explains in a new episode of the section when it is better to start approaching a specialist and how to prepare a young athlete properly for that.

"Ask a Psychologist": From what age should an athlete start working with a sports psychologist?

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Irina Kozyr explains in a new episode of the column how injuries affect the psychological state of athletes and shares pieces of advices that will help to go properly through the rehabilitation period.

Ask a Psychologist: How to support a child if she picks up an injury?

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Sports psychologist Irina Kozyr talks in detail about the problem of emotional burnout and gives recommendations that will help not only gymnasts.

Ask a Psychologist: How to overcome emotional burnout?

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In the new episode, sports psychologist Irina Kozyr explains how competition affects an athlete and what its advantages and disadvantages are.

Ask a Psychologist: What’s the right way for an athlete to treat competition?

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In the new Ask a Psychologist episode Irina Kozyr talks about the basic principles of developing discipline, and also shares advice that will help parents teach their child self-discipline.

Ask a Psychologist: How to learn discipline?

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Academy sports psychologist Irina Kozyr explains what this problem is like and how to deal with it.

Ask a Psychologist: How to prevent a child from getting a big head about athletic achievements?

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Sports psychologist Irina Kozyr gives several pieces of advice that would help gymnasts in difficult moments at workouts.

Ask a Psychologist: How to handle criticism from the coach?

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Academy sports psychologist Irina Kozyr talks in detail about ideomotor training for athletes and how to do it correctly at home and elsewhere.

Ask a psychologist: What is ideomotor training and how can gymnasts use it?

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Academy sports psychologist Irina Kozyr shares and gives recommendations to athletes on how to properly respond to unpleasant emotions and prepare for new starts.

Ask a psychologist: how to cope with negative emotions after a failure at a competition

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...Sports psychologist Irina Kozyr tells what to do when young gymnasts have no desire to go to training because of accumulated fatigue or improper recovery.  Всем привет! ☀️ ...

Ask a Psychologist: What is the right way of dealing with fatigue?

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Academy psychologist Irina Kozyr talks about autogenic training in more detail and gives advice on how to do it.

Ask a psychologist: what is autogenic training and how is it done?

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Academy psychologist Irina Kozyr talks about the importance of this method and gives specific techniques on how to bring meditation into everyday life.

“Ask a Psychologist”: how to use meditation in sports and what are its benefits?

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Sports psychologist of the Academy Irina Kozyr explains the reason of insomnia with gymnasts before competitions and performances and also gives several pieces of advice how to cope with it.

Ask a Psychologist: What to do if you cannot fall asleep at night before the performance?

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Even in the warmest relationships between parents, children and coaches, there are difficult moments. Academy sports psychologist Irina Kozyr explains why it is important to trust your child’s coach and remain calm in tense situations.

Ask a Psychologist: How can parents build a relationship with their child’s coach?

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Sports psychologist of the Academy Irina Kozyr speaks about working with breath, which will help to cope with pre-start excitement during competitions.