Sporting Excellence
Author : David Hemery
Publisher : HarperSport
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 9780002183987
Author : David Hemery
Publisher : HarperSport
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Athletes
ISBN : 9780002183987
Author : Ted Garratt
Publisher : Crown House Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,73 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781899836260
The author is an experienced NLP trainer and in this book he provides insights into how to enhance sports performance using the power of NLP. His practical plan includes: mental warming up; managing stress; focusing attention; developing self-confidence; and dealing with difficulties.
Author : John Honeybourne
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780748753031
The second edition of this well-established text has been updated to match the revised course specifications for OCR, AQA and Edexcel syllabuses.
Author : James E. Loehr
Publisher : New Amer Library
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780452267954
Author : Colleen M. Hacker
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1718207719
Perform to your potential with proven mental training techniques! Achieving Excellence: Mastering the Mindset for Peak Performance in Sport and Life offers a variety of peak performance strategies to help athletes, coaches, and performers of all kinds achieve a winning mindset. The book explores sport psychology concepts and provides practical, proven strategies to incorporate into your daily life and competitive career. Renowned mental skills coach and performance psychology expert Colleen Hacker has helped hundreds of Olympic and professional athletes to achieve their individual and team goals. In Achieving Excellence, she shares her approach for cultivating confidence, focus, and habits of excellence. She will teach you how to create action plans for success and develop performance routines that optimize achievement. Inside, you will discover the strategies and practical tools needed for success in life and sport, such as these: Bulleted checklists that offer step-by-step application tips for mental skills Sidebars that highlight strategies for overcoming common challenges Success stories from top athletes and firsthand accounts of their experiences using different techniques Inspirational quotes throughout the book will motivate you, and implementation worksheets—available both in the book and online through HKPropel—are provided to help you apply mental training strategies in competition or in other achievement domains. With Achieving Excellence, you will develop a winning mindset with evidence-based, step-by-step plans that lead you to peak performance. Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with this ebook.
Author : Michael Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134273320
This entry-level text offers new students a comprehensive introduction to the phenomenon of high performance sport. Includes well-presented pedagogical content with case-studies, questions for discussion, websites and further reading. Written for A-level and undergraduate level.
Author : Russell Wayne Gough
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN :
Gough's practical approach asks readers to examine the effects personal character has on performance, teammates, fans, the league, and other individuals and groups in sports. Gough discusses sport's powerful cultural force, its potential for positive impact in the lives and society of those involved in it, and the ethical dimension of games. Gough also addresses the tenuous state of ethics in today's sports culture and the great potential for improvement.
Author : Michael L. Sachs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 153812890X
Performance Excellence: Stories of Success from the Real World of Sport and Exercise Psychology provides concise and effective lessons on a variety of psychological skills and broader concepts within the domains of exercise, sport, and performance psychology. These skills and concepts include team cohesion, dynamics, and leadership; goal-setting, motivation, and adherence; exercise identity, athletic identity, transitions, and self-awareness; mental training; mindset; and facing and overcoming challenges such as anxiety, burnout, and rehabilitation. Each chapter includes a short educational piece that centers on the select concept and subsequent examples that highlight how the concept works in real life. At the end of each lesson a few takeaways are provided. Over 60 stories of real-world examples provide poignant and compelling lessons and make the material come alive. These stories show the reader in an accessible and engaging way how to apply the sport and exercise psychology concepts outside the classroom. Ultimately, Performance Excellence serves as a wonderful resource for students, as well as for sport and exercise practitioners.
Author : Jim Murphy
Publisher : Academy of Excellence - New York - Rome - Tokyo
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2020-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781734654806
Want More Joy and Confidence? Discover the life guide that has developed world champions, empowered athletes to become world #1, and most importantly, transformed their hearts and minds. This step-by-step training manual from one of the world's top mental skills coaches will teach you how the mindset of some of the best performers and leaders on the planet allowed them to have freedom and confidence when so much was out of their control. Whether you're an athlete or entrepreneur, single mother or father of five, you'll find exercises, techniques and tools in this book that will improve every area of your life. Your life will take on new meaning as you move beyond the pursuit of happiness to a life of purpose and fulfillment. Jim Murphy's complete program of proven mental techniques is based on the powerful principles of love, wisdom, and courage, that came from over six years of full-time research and writing (after his masters degree in Coaching Science). "I read the first version of Inner Excellence six times. I recommend all my clients read it." - Matt Killen, PGA Tour coach to Justin Thomas, Tiger Woods and many others INNER EXCELLENCE WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO: DEVELOP SELF-MASTERY-and let go of what you can't control OVERCOME ANXIETY-and build powerful mental habits REMOVE MENTAL BLOCKS-and get out of your own way TRAIN YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS MIND-and release limiting beliefs As a professional baseball player in the Chicago Cubs organization, Jim's sense of worth and identity revolved around his performance. He was obsessed with fame but also afraid of failure, and that fear in his heart made him struggle under the pressure to perform. When he started coaching professional and Olympic athletes, he saw the same pattern over and over again: athletes had lost their joy and passion for life as the fear of failure engulfed their lives. This book will share with you how some of the best athletes in the world have learned Inner Excellence, how it propelled them to extraordinary performance even when they were filled with doubt and uncertainty, and how you can excel in the same way in your life. The insights and exercises within will help you achieve higher levels of performance than you ever thought possible-and bring incredible peace and confidence. "Inner Excellence changed how I see the world, how I think, and how I play golf." - Vaughn Taylor, three-time PGA Tour winner Jim Murphy is a Performance Coach (mental skills) to some of the best athletes and leaders in the world. The majority of his clients achieved the best year of their career their first year working with Jim (or their best year in the previous five years)
Author : Cesar R. Torres
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1408182580
The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Sport features specially commissioned essays from a team of leading international scholars. The book, by providing an overview of the advances in the philosophical understanding of sport (and related practices), serves as a measure of the development of the philosophy of sport but it also constitutes an expression of the discipline's state of the art. The book includes a critical analysis of the historical development of philosophic ideas about sport, three essays on the research methods typically used by sport philosophers, twelve essays that address vital issues at the forefront of key research areas, as well as four essays on topics of future disciplinary concern. The book also includes a glossary of key terms and concepts, an essay on resources available to researchers and practitioners, an essay on careers opportunities in the discipline, and an extensive annotated bibliography of key literature.