By the way, a column about mental problems in sports: It’s all in your head!

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As often happens. The blockage was in the mind. Thanks to his mental coach, wrestler Samuel Giger decided and freed them and won the Unspunnen-Schwinget tournament in impressive fashion. In Sportpanorama, the excited presenter asks the winner of Nespunnen: “How do you imagine working with a mental coach?” Does it take away the bad and add the good?” “Something like that,” Giger smiles.

The head has long been the Achilles heel in elite sports. But what does a mental coach do if he can’t handle anything because there’s nothing in it? Will he then be able to do more good things? Or nothing at all?

Mental coaches thrive. Mental hygiene has replaced oral hygiene as a box office hit. Biting hard became a matter of the mind. Stan Wawrinka demonstrates this after every second play. Anyone who has played badminton twice can win the US Open. If it’s in your head.

This is increasingly flowing from elite sports into everyday life. Mental and motivational coaches sprout faster than weeds in the garden. Every postman needs a psychological coach. So that he does not lose motivation after the seventh mailbox, into which he has to stuff not only a newspaper, but also fresh broccoli and six liters of mineral water.

Schoolchildren need a mental coach so they can do gymnastics flips, clean up their plates at home after lunch, and do their homework.

A medical specialist brought in from abroad needs a psychological coach if she has to treat all the vulnerable Eritreans who are at risk at home, but who have their heads bled until they bleed at a festival in Eritrea.

Occupational therapy or ego therapy

And all taxpayers need a mental health coach if they have to pay for such police operations while health insurance premiums continue to skyrocket. The question arises: how can you make ends meet without a mental coach these days?

Mental coaches can also be found in every football club. Going to training or occupational therapy every day for a monthly salary of two million is also a matter of your head. In this business that has gone wild, ego therapy would be recommended instead of occupational therapy.

You can’t envy mental trainers at all. You will have to train every little goldfish swimming in the same tank as the big fish to be a great pike. Otherwise, the little goldfish will be doomed to a gloomy life dominated by an inferiority complex.

There were no mental coaches before. As the inventor of this profession, how could it have been otherwise, Bernhard Russi is questioned. “When we had to do 20 push-ups in training, I always did 21. One push-up was for the head. I felt like I trained more than anyone else.”

With this confidence, he became a world champion and an Olympic champion. Without a mental coach.

Source: Blick