India Hockey Goalkeeper PR Sreejesh Says Reading Motivational Books To Keep Mental Balance During Lockdown

Back household immediately after nearly a few months of confinement due to the fact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Indian hockey group goalkeeper PR Sreejesh says he fought versus his mental demons during the lockdown stage by looking at a lot of “motivational” literature. With his father, who is a cardiac individual, and two children back again household in Kerala, Sreejesh admitted that it was tricky to retain absent damaging feelings during the lockdown time period but he channelised his electrical power by looking at — American Olympian triathlete Joanna Zeiger’s ‘The Champions Attitude – An Athlete’s Tutorial to Psychological Toughness’.

“It was seriously tricky as our way of living altered totally. The key issue was to strike a balance in your feelings. My father is a heart individual and I have two children — daughter who is six and a son who is three. So I was more worried about their overall health because the two are in significant hazard age teams,” Sreejesh instructed PTI.

“On just one side I was experience homesick and on the other I did not want to hazard them by heading household due to the fact there have been prospects of contracting the virus even though travelling.

“So I got involved into looking at for peace. I read a lot during the lockdown, from fiction, non-fiction to motivational publications. These aided me to imagine in a different way. The Champions Attitude is a e book that I read all over again.”

The e book is written by Zeiger, who was the 2008 Ironman 70.three entire world winner and represented the United States at the 2000 Summertime Olympics in triathlon.

The e book talks about mental toughness and comebacks of athletes in specialist sports. The Indian gentlemen and women hockey groups have been stuck at the Athletics Authority of India (SAI) South Centre in Bengaluru because March twenty five when the federal government introduced the nationwide lockdown to command the COVID-19 pandemic.

But on final Friday, the “homesick” hockey players have been allowed to depart the facility immediately after becoming granted a month’s break. However he is back again at household, Sreejesh nevertheless has some time ahead of he can engage in with his children or roam all-around freely as he is currently serving fourteen-day household quarantine as for each the pointers of Kerala federal government.

“I am seriously content to be back again household but I am nevertheless confined in a home in the to start with flooring of my house. My family customers are all staying downstairs and I am less than household quarantine upstairs,” reported the 32-year-aged. “However I can see my small children but I are unable to contact them and it is really seriously disheartening.”

India’s selection just one goalkeeper reported nevertheless they have been in a safe place at SAI, Bengaluru, they essential a month’s break as bit by bit the players have been experience mentally fragile immediately after becoming absent from household for such a extended time.

“We have been in the best and most secure place. However we have been less than lockdown but nevertheless we could roam all-around within the campus in modest teams. But we hardly ever experienced such a prolonged camp and it began to have an effect on the players. Anyone began to overlook their families,” Sreejesh reported. 

“At just one point we have been unable to choose that. It was the exact regimen from morning until night and we began to feel mentally weaker. “The break will do a entire world of very good to the players. We will return fresh new equally mentally and bodily. Our minds will be free of charge and eager to get the job done more challenging.”

With uncertainty hanging in excess of resumption of hockey, he reported as group they are missing competitive action. Sreejesh, who will be that includes in his 3rd Olympics at Tokyo, is determined to complete his profession with an Olympic medal.

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“Tokyo can be my final Olympics but I generally prefer to retain modest targets. Clearly a medal at the Olympics is the greatest objective,” reported Sreejesh, who played in 2012 London and 2016 Rio Games.

“It is generally much better to engage in just one Olympics and return with a medal than engage in in a few and return empty-handed,” the former skipper signed off.