Inside a champion's head

“It’s beautiful this velodrome stadium that’s always full both at home and away”, “don’t kill your chickens before they hatch”, “it was the last straw that added fuel to the fire”, “we have to learn to not play in the gapes”, “it’s us who won”... out of respect, we won’t cite the authors of these little gems that have come from the mouths of top athletes.

Thus, in recent years, a number of studies have provided evidence of their exceptional mental capacities. One of these, carried out by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and published in the prestigious PLOS ONE scientific journal, revealed the difference in cognitive abilities between players in the premier league in Swedish football and the second league. Result: the players in the elite Scandinavian football league out-perform their counterparts in the league below by a significant margin.

However, as there are two sides to every coin, the brains of elite athletes are also subject to the same traumas as those of overworked business execs. Mathias Pessiglione and his team have also looked closely at this phenomenon. Last year, researchers at the Brain Institute responded to an invitation from the National Institute for Sports, Expertise and Performance .

If it can be detrimental to train too intensely, there is, on the other hand, incontestable proof that regular physical activity provides beneficial effects. Especially in relation to certain illnesses: “We have noted that athletic activity has a positive impact on nervous depression in young people, and on the prevalence of cancers, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases in older people”, confirms Mathias Pessiglione. But that’s not all.

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