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“Sports from an avidly active person’s perspective”
n this article, I would like to include my experiences with sport, a little bit of my biography, to paint you a better picture of the place I am coming from, everything that an active lifestyle brought to my life, where it made me head to and what positions it has put me in. Other than that, I want to present in general my subjective opinion about topics related to sport and my overwiev about an active and healthy lifestyle.
For a while, at the beginning of primary school, I got obsessed with basketball. The sport just seemed so elegant and demanding of precision to me. I was practising three-point shots everyday. At about 10 years old I started to train handball in a school sports program. For the last three years of my primary school I attended ten 45-minute sessions per week. I really started to take sport seriously then, as we had good coaches, who taught us about the importance of all aspects of sports: physical, technical, tactical, mental, recovery, nutrition, etc.
To start from the beginning, I was born in Lubin, a not so small, but definitely not big city in the south-west of Poland to parents who also come from there. Both of them were fairly active and conscious about their health throughout their whole life and they have stayed like that to this day. Naturally, they were very eager for me to follow in their footsteps, so ever since I learned to walk, they were taking me on increasingly longer walks in the nearby parks, fields and forests. Not long later, proper sports like football and riding then a 4-wheel bike - came into the picture. I learned to swim pretty young, when I was only a couple years old. I remember swimming far into deep waters of Silesian lakes with my father at an early age. I was really scared back then, but with practice comes the confidence, and now I comfortably swim far away from the shore in the Mediterranean Sea in Kalamata, having in mind that even if I get a cramp, I will be able to stay calm and stretch it out while floating in the water.
We were training in a sports hall near our school, in which the professional handball team from our city Zagłębie Lubin – was training and playing games, so we had very good conditions. I was part of the youth section of the team, we were representing the town on a State level in the same jerseys as our idols from the adult team, and it made me realise for the first time that sports may be a viable career for me, which would also keep me healthy and in good shape.
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(...) we had good coaches, who taught us about the importance of all aspects of sports (...)
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