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Ask a psychologist

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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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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Opinion

The four-time Olympic champion held a master class for athletes of the M. Voronin Dynamo Moscow club

"This master class brought us together!" Alexei Nemov talks about the lesson at the Christmas training camp

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Our judges

In the Our Judges section, we meet a professional from Zelenograd.

Our Judges. Lyudmila Makhneva

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Alina Yastrebova from the Martial Arts Academy came to the training camp with her mother Svetlana Prokhorova.

"It's great that there is an opportunity like this!" Svetlana Prokhorova, mother of a young judoka, talks about the Christmas training camp

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Arsen Galstyan is coaching the Russian national team and preparing athletes for international competitions.

"Our team is one of the strongest in the world!" 2012 Olympic champion and Arsen Galstyan speaks about preparations in the Martial Arts Academy

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Academy Life

She helps the gymnasts with choreographing new programs.

The Alina festival choreographer Irina Zenovka came to the Christmas training camp in Valdai

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Athletes and coaches visited St. Petersburg as part of the Christmas training camp organized by the founders of the Alina Kabaeva Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Academy.

Academy coach Olga Frolova shares her impressions after watching The Nutcracker at the Mariinsky Theatre

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The training camp, which is taking place from January 3 to 16, was organized by the founders of Alina Kabaeva Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Academy.

Martial Arts Academy trainer Evgeny Ivanov talks about an unusual training session at the Christmas training camp

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Elina Khabirova from Kazan is a student of the Diva rhythmic gymnastics club and trains with coach Oksana Imshaeva.

Elina Khabirova from Kazan tells about her participation in the Christmas training camp in Valdai

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The training camp, which was organized by the founders of the Alina Kabaeva Sky Grace Rhythmic Gymnastics Academy, runs from January 3 to 16.

Participants of the Christmas training camp watched the The Nutcracker at the Mariinsky Theater

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Anna works with gymnasts in group exercises.

"We combine business with pleasure!” Coach Anna Ustsova talks about the training sessions at the Christmas training camp in Valdai

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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.