How to socialize? Times have changed. Bringing the clock back a few years, when the use of videogames was still conscientious and smartphones did not exist, a garage door and a ball were enough to entertain a dozen kids for a whole afternoon, and who among you is reading this observation and he is at least thirty years old, can fully understand the sense of joy one feels on those rare occasions when you see a group of kids playing football on the pitch.
Sport aggregates; however, more and more statistics state that sport among young people is less and less widespread, year after year. In addition to numerous negative effects on health and motor skills, can this also lead to negative effects on friendship and socialization?
Youth and team sports
If you are wondering how to socialize, one of the best ways is team sports. They are, especially at a young age, an excellent glue for relationships; friendships are created that last over time, sometimes a lifetime. Just think of a football or volleyball team: a group of kids who all compete towards a single goal, training together, rejoicing together and why not, even arguing with each other; in short, all aspects that suggest that sport at a young age, from the point of view of character, is a fundamental thing.
Carrying us to the present day, where baby sports are decreasing, the foundations of friendship must be built on other bases, certainly less resistant than those of sport; it would be very nice if we went back to the old statistics on children and sports, thanks to organized sports clubs and parents more interested in the socialization aspect.
How to socialize? Adults and sports in a group: a different relationship
Very often the relationship between adults and physical activity is of a different nature. Around the age of 35 there are not many team sports practitioners at a competitive level.
Many have retired by approaching new disciplines in an amateur way, while others have hung up their boots waiting for inspiration.
Often in fitness centers you meet both former sportsmen of this type, and people who have never done any type of activity in search of regaining some well-being and physical shape. But is this the only reason for the recall? Attending a sports environment is good for socialization at all ages.
Whether we are talking about a group of soccer fans or a functional training class, being part of a group that competes towards a goal is a fantastic glue.
Let's take a functional training class as an example. Being part of that community leads to:
• share a goal
• sharing the fatigue (fundamental aspect to have an incentive not to stop)
• trigger healthy competition with peers of the same level
• establish a friendship outside the gym
All these aspects go in two directions: if on the one hand being together creates new friends, on the other, creating new friendships helps to give continuity to the activity; at an age that is no longer very young, commitments and fatigue often take precedence over the sense of duty towards sport, but having one or more friends waiting for you to train will be a fundamental driving force in order not to skip the session.
Furthermore, as in a football team there is a reference figure that is the coach, in a fitness context a very important role in creating bonds is in the hands of the coach, especially at the beginning of the course, where exits and extra dinners are well-regarded. gym.
When the group is a couple
This is the typical case of the weight room, or of those who train outdoors without going to dedicated environments.
There are no courses in the weight room. Of course, you can meet many people at the same time but being open all day often people will almost always be different and everyone will mind their own business.
For this reason, many people (we are talking about amateurs not professional bodybuilders) soon give up training as soon as boredom or some commitment arises that makes their regularity falter. Having a partner, or to be more English speaking, a “gym buddy” is a boon in these cases; the more similar it is to us in terms of objectives, the more we will be of mutual help in other aspects as well.
If we examine the case of two men who have to lose about twenty kilograms, strengthening each other even on the food side will be much more profitable.
For outdoor training the speech is the same: being part of a group of people who go out for running will give that characteristic of "commitment" to an activity that, if it were done alone, would be placed as the last among the activities of the daily routine, ending up among the first sacrifices in case of setbacks.
Trying to practice physical activity as a lifestyle and not as a constraint is essential in order not to fail; doing it in a group is much easier!
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