Vicente Torres

Entrenador Nacional Atletismo @atletismoRFEA @atletismeFACV. Máster @COE_es Alto Rendimiento Deportivo. Sports performance research group @UCV_es. Phd Student.

[Sergio Ferrero @calotonterias]

Dejar a los niños jugar solos al aire libre exponiéndose a riesgos controlados (escalar árboles, jugar con agua o fuego, luchar de broma, explorar zonas donde hay riesgo de perderse, correr a gran velocidad, saltar desde cierta altura...) es necesario para su correcto desarrollo.

Aumenta significativamente su autoconfianza y su sentimiento de competencia, mejora el bienestar psicológico, fortalece la resiliencia emocional y les ayuda a regular el miedo de forma saludable (efecto anti-fóbico). Además, favorece el desarrollo físico (fuerza, coordinación, equilibrio y habilidades motoras), incrementa la actividad física y reduce el sedentarismo. A nivel social, mejora sus habilidades de interacción con otros niños, la resolución de conflictos, la cooperación y el liderazgo. También estimula la creatividad, la resolución de problemas y la capacidad de evaluar y gestionar riesgos reales por sí mismos.

Por el contrario, apartarlos de cualquier peligro y sobreprotegerlos aumenta notablemente el riesgo de desarrollar fobias y ansiedad, reduce su resiliencia, disminuye su autoestima y su capacidad para manejar el estrés y los desafíos de la vida. También favorece el sedentarismo, la obesidad, un menor desarrollo de habilidades motoras y peores competencias sociales, dejando a los niños menos preparados para enfrentarse al mundo real.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

True confidence is quiet. Insecurity is loud.

Inner confidence comes from evidence. Do the work to establish receipts.

Insecurity tries to mask over lack of evidence with bravado and projection.

Don’t be fooled by those who are loud.

[José Morón @jmgmoron]

Da igual quien gane el torneo de Roma este fin de semana.

La ganadora es ella.

Se llama Sofia y es una niña del Hospital Gemelli, de la planta oncológica.

Su alegría al entrar a pista con Sinner no tiene precio 🥲

[Gustavo Luza @GustavoLuza]

Rafa y una verdad incómoda: en el éxito no hay magia. Es la disciplina de dar tu máximo, sea un 100% o un 50%. La industria te vende el humo de los atajos comprables, pero el secreto esta en lo único que no se compra: la capacidad de bancarse la frustración y no rendirse jamás.

[Guille Martín @Farmaenfurecida]

Diferencia entre buen jugador y leyenda:

[David Orenes @david_lrl]

Carolina Marín, a lágrima viva viendo cómo en el pabellón que lleva su nombre, en la tierra que le vio nacer, colgará siempre su camiseta 🥹🥹🥹

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

One of the keys to elite performance is staying in the game long enough to allow your talent to fully express.

A rush to be great can often impede our development

Be patient
Focus on consistency over heroic efforts
Play the long game
Keep and develop the joy of the pursuit

[Carolina Marín @CarolinaMarin]

Mi camino acaba aquí. Gracias a todos, porque también habéis formado parte de ello. En esta nueva aventura llevaré conmigo los valores que me han acompañado hasta ahora e intentaré devolver a la sociedad todo lo que me ha dado en este tiempo. Ha sido un viaje maravilloso ♥️

[Miriam Costa Agudo @mimicostagudo]

Lo dejo aquí, porque creo que es importante. #reflexiones #deportejoven #categoríasmenores

[David Orenes @david_lrl]

Estas dos fotos tienen CUATRO meses de diferencia.

Lo de @aniitaalonso es de película de Hollywood

#MilanoCortina2026

[Comité Olímpico Español @COE_es]

🥇 𝑷𝒂𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒐 𝑭𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂́𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒛 𝑶𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒂, Sapporo 1972
🥉 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒂 𝑭𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂́𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒛 𝑶𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒂, Albertville 1992
🥉 𝑹𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒐 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂́𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒛 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊́𝒏, Pyeongchang 2018
🥉 𝑱𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝑭𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂́𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒛 𝑳𝒐́𝒑𝒆𝒛, Pyeongchang 2018
🥈 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒕 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝑰𝒃𝒂́𝒏̃𝒆𝒛, Beijing 2022
🥉 𝑨𝒏𝒂 𝑨𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒐 𝑹𝒐𝒅𝒓𝒊́𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒛, Milano-Cortina 2026
🥇 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒍 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒂 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒍, Milano-Cortina 2026

✨🇪🇸 ¡Ana, Oriol, acabáis de entrar en 𝑙𝑎 𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑙𝑖́𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑜 𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑜 𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑛̃𝑜𝑙!

#ElCorazónDeEspaña ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[David Orenes @david_lrl]

54 AÑOS SOÑANDO CON ESTE MOMENTO 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

ORIOL CARDONA gana para España 🇪🇸 el primer oro olímpico 🥇 en unos Juegos de Invierno desde 1972, con Paquito Fdez Ochoa

Carrerón impecable, sublime, colosal, del mejor esquiador de montaña del mundo.

[David Orenes @david_lrl]

LO HIZO.

Pyeongchang 2018 🥇🥇🥇
Pekín 2022 🥇🥇
Milán-Cortina 2026 🥇🥇🥇🥇

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 🇳🇴, primer deportista de la historia con NUEVE OROS en unos JJOO de Invierno. Historia del deporte y del olimpismo.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Norway is once again dominating the winter Olympics.

And this is their youth sports program:

Participation trophies for all kids.
No keeping score until 13.
No national travel competitions in youth sports.
No posting youth results online.
Motto: “Joy of Sport for All.”

They let kids be kids. And it works.

But…it’s the winter Olympics,right? Recently, they have had tremendous success in summer sports.

Karsten Warholm demolished the 400 meter hurdles world record. Kristian Blummenfelt broke the Ironman triathlon record and won Olympic gold. His training partner, Gustav Ivan, won the 2022 Ironman World Championship. Casper Ruud reached world number two in tennis. Viktor Hovland is a top ten golfer in the world. Erling Haaland set the record for the most goals in a season in the Premier League. Beach volleyball champs, a surge of elite runners. By any metric, Norway’s elite athletes are achieving on a global stage. Yet, if we turn to their youth sports, their programs are the opposite of the US.

Norway doesn’t allow for official scorekeeping until the age of thirteen. They dissuade early national travel teams in favor of local leagues. You can’t even post the results of youth games online without being fined. And almost sacrilegious in certain American circles, Norway doesn’t allow trophies unless everyone gets one.

As Tore Ovrebo, Norway’s director of elite sport, told USA Today writer Dan Wolken, “We think the biggest motivation for the kids to do sports is that they do it with their friends and they have fun while they’re doing it and we want to keep that feeling throughout their whole career.” Their youth sporting model can be summed up with their chosen slogan, “Joy of Sport for All.”

But not keeping score, giving out trophies, not being “win at all costs”...that’s anti-American! How can they be competitive?

Research backs their approach up.

1. The fire has to come from within

If you look at ​research​ on prodigies who eventually become standout adult performers, a deep intrinsic drive is paramount. Researchers found that intrinsically motivated football players were 3.5x more likely to make it to the next level, and athletes in general 2x more likely.

The problem is that early success often pulls young people away from this inner drive. Kids start playing soccer (or violin or chess—this isn’t just about sports) because it is exciting and fun. As they improve, they gain accolades and praise from their parents, coaches, and teachers. They start winning trophies or seeing their names in online commentary. Without even realizing it, their intrinsic drive gets replaced by external validation and a need to please and impress others.

The quickest way to kill that internal motivation? Hype achievements and be a crazy controlling parent or coach.

The best way to create and maintain intrinsic motivation is to let kids dabble, explore, and find something with which their interests and talents align. Then, let them enjoy it without an undue emphasis on success. Praise effort, character, and teamwork, not results. This is easy to talk about but hard to do. Find ways to reward and incentivize the values you want to instill. That means not taking the easy road and talking about who set a new mile best or scored the most points, but instead highlighting who hustled during the fourth quarter, rallied after it seemed like the match was over, or displayed exemplary sportsmanship.

2. Go Broad over Specialization

Even if the entire point of youth sports was to create future champions (which it’s not), we’d still adopt something similar to the Norwegian model. An ​analysis​ of over 6,000 athletes explored what separates athletes who reached world class and those who came up short.

Those who reached world-class had during their youth:
-More multi-sport than specialized practice
-Started their primary sport later
-Accumulated less overall formal practice
-Initially progressed slower than national class peers

Those who performed well when young, but didn’t progress:
-Started their primary sport earlier
-Specialized, engaging in more practice in one sport
-Made quicker initial progress

Norway doesn’t have 300 plus million people and an NCAA system to funnel talent. They have to develop theirs. And they realize the best way to do that is keep as many people in the system as possible.

Why? Because you can’t predict talent development very well! Just go look at the age group record books. It’s easy to fool yourself into thinking early performance equals talent and potential. The kid running a 6-minute mile at 10 looks way better than the one running 6:45. But if the faster one is at track practice 5 days a week and the slower one rolls out of gym class in jeans and runs it off “fitness” from just playing, well I’m betting on the slower one!

When we assess performance early on, we’re not measuring talent, we’re looking at training age and opportunity. And we’re crowning winners based on who started grinding first.

America gets away with the insane achievement model because we can burn out 9 kids to get 1 survivor. Norway can’t afford to do that. They take the longer, more sustainable model.

Rethinking Youth Sports:

The whole point of youth sports should be for kids to learn, develop, have fun, and want to come back and play again next season! The best chance of developing a D1 scholarship athlete is essentially to do the exact opposite of what our current youth sports fiasco promotes. Even the poster child for early specialization, Tiger Woods, ​acknowledged​ it’s not a good thing for parents to push their kids too hard: “Don’t force your kids into sports,” he says. “I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Keep it fun.”

While youth sports in America aren’t going to adopt the Norwegian model anytime soon, we can rebalance the equation. As I outlined in my book, it’s not getting rid of competitiveness, it’s rebalancing the equation to make sure that crazy mom, dad, or coach don’t extinguish the fire that makes great competitors (and sport fun!).

In research on performance orientation and grades in school, a teaching environment that supported and emphasized mastery[PA1] , where students focused on the process of learning and comprehension instead of a comparison to others, was also linked to better grades. But it wasn’t the direct relationship that an outcome orientation had. Instead, in one study on college students, a mastery approach was linked to challenge-seeking, which in turn predicted end-of-the-year grades. In another study, mastery goals predicted higher levels of interest and enjoyment. Mastery works on our approach system without activating avoidance. It frees us up to take on a challenge and pursue our interests without getting bogged down by the pressure or judgment that often comes with an obsession with outcomes. The same findings hold true when looking at sport or the workplace. In a large meta-analysis that analyzed the impact of goal setting in sports, process-orientated goals had a large effect on performance. Outcome goals had little to no effect.

These two paths represent a fast versus slow road to success. Both a mastery or outcome focus can lead to better performance, but the latter is akin to taking a shortcut. Obsession over outcomes is the most direct path to improvement, but it comes with some downsides that shift us toward avoidance. The slow path takes a longer, indirect route. It helps improve our performance not by focusing on the results themselves but by supporting the foundation that ultimately leads to better performance. It stokes the fire of enjoyment and interest to sustain our curiosity and work ethic over the long haul. It pushes us toward challenge-seeking so that when we inevitably hit a roadblock, we’ll take it on instead of trying to protect our ego. Both approaches work. One is more sustainable, providing success with less angst. Society has thrown us so far out of balance that we can’t even see the slow route right in front of us.

We can either instill a love of sport in our youth, or we can turn sport into a burden where kids are exhausted, stressed, and scared. We’ve seen this go both ways, and the results couldn’t be more different. One leads to happy, healthy, and better young athletes. The other leads to burnout, family tension, mental health challenges, and quitting. As parents, volunteers, coaches, and community members, let’s all do what we can to minimize the latter and champion the former.

-Steve

[Jesús Molero @psisuki]

Tener salud mental no es estar bien siempre, es más bien saber qué hacer cuando no estás bien. Más que los buenos momentos, es la gestión de los malos lo que más impacto tiene en la vida. Porque el sufrimiento siempre llega. Las situaciones difíciles, los pensamientos negativos, las emociones complicadas. La solución nunca fue huir del dolor sino saber cómo enfrentarlo, y justo eso es lo complejo.

[AVAMET @avamet]

L'observatori meteorològic de Guadassuar (IES Didín Puig) supera ja els 200 mm de precipitació hui i continua plovent molt fort a la Ribera Alta.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

The best coaches show you the way.

Care
Support
Challenge appropriately
Do the work
Consistency
Keep showing up
Execute your role to the best of your ability

But most people think it's too simple and there must be a secret so they go search for it...

[Eurosport.es @Eurosport_ES]

HISTORIA DEL CICLISMO ESPAÑOL 🚴🇪🇸

Mavi García (@mavi_at) firma una victoria espectacular, la primera de una corredora española en la historia del Tour de Francia femenino y en cualquier Gran Vuelta con su actual formato y nombre

Rendidos a tus pies 👏👏👏👏

[Vicente Torres @TorresPirri]

@susihervas @CatSusGroup_ITQ TOP!

[José Manuel Amorós @AmorosLive]

🚨 El campeón de España de maratón Hamid Ben Daoud, sancionado cuatro años por dopaje en su pasaporte biológico.

El TAS también suspende a Merzougui por los mismos motivos y con el mismo castigo.

Toda la información, en @relevo:

https://t.co/5y8u8sePbx