| Stages |
Description |
Observations |
| Stage 1 |
Group formation with a specific purpose: selection of the team athletes |
Group formation is non-spontaneous and begins once the selection action has ended (regardless of the level at which it is achieved: club team, national team).Each girl athlete presents with her own set of social experiences and aspirations related to self-assertion on the sports and social levels. |
| Stage 2 |
Group gymnasts initially have relatively diverse interests and desires, the obvious differences in talent deepening the heterogeneity of the group. |
The tasks and orders of the coaches will be the first arguments in favour of cohesion, goal unity and fundamental objectives that aim at forming a functional group. |
| Stage 3 |
Regardless of the athlete’s receptive structure, all of them, without exception, will be subject to the same common denominator set by the coach: observing the group discipline. |
Once this first prerequisite has been fulfilled, favourable conditions for achieving the cohesive and homogeneous group structure are naturally created. |
| Stage 4 |
Once the working methodology has been understood, depending on the particularities of the sports group, the coach will promote the idea that the team will gradually go beyond the stages in which external control is exercised and imposed. |
This stage involves, first of all, more time allocated to joint training (and activities with varied content), which must be profitably used to raise the athletes’ awareness of the tasks assigned in the shared and individual action of achieving sports performance. |
| Stage 5 |
A psychological relationship, a certain fusion of athletes into a common whole. |
The goal of the group becomes the goal of each athlete. |
