Sports Psychology category: 506 books
by Allan P. Sand
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
This is how Sun Tsu would guide your development as a sports player! Apply the philosophy of war to your competitive development and increase your ability to out-think and out-maneuver opponents!
2,500 years ago, a Chinese general, Sun Tzu, wrote a treatise titled “The Art of War”. It summarized...
The Mind Game Of MMA
12 Lessons To Develop The Mental Toughness Essential To Becoming A Champion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
The Mind Game Of MMA 12 Lessons To Develop The Mental Toughness Essential To Becoming A Champion This is the first book ever written on mental performance specifically for the growing sport of MMA. Written by Kevin Seaman, both a World Class competitor and a coach with 40 years in the martial arts and...
The Playmaker's Advantage
How to Raise Your Mental Game to the Next Level
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Discover the next frontier in sports training—improving your mental game, no matter your age or experience—and how to become the Playmaker, both in your professional and personal life.
Coaches search for it. Parents dream of it. Fans love it. Athletes want it.
The playmaker on any...
by Kay M. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
Improved mental ability means improved sports performance. Athletes who excel do so not just because of their physical abilities but because of their mental awareness, preparation, and skills as well. The Mental Athlete will help improve your overall performance by providing the tools, guidance, and...
Train Your Mind for Athletic Success
Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Much too often, the mental aspect of sport performance is overlooked. While all top athletes are in outstanding physical condition and technically exceptional, mental preparation is often what separates the best from the rest. This is just as true for young athletes as it is for pros and Olympians....
Holism and the Cultivation of Excellence in Sports and Performance
Skillful Striving
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Skillful Striving is a multi-methodological and cross-cultural examination of how we flourish holistically through performative endeavors, e.g., sports, martial and performing arts. Relying primarily on sport philosophy, value theory, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, pragmatism, and East Asian philosophies...
Athletic Identity: Invincible and Invisible
Athletic Identity, #1
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2017
The athlete is a mystery to many and the journey athletes encounter involve a number of complex events that over time can lead to unlimited success in and outside of the sporting environment. However being an athlete also brings on complex issues and requires a unique set of personal development services...
The Making of High Performance Athletes
Discipline, Diversity, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
Highly skilled athletes are produced by technologies of training which seek to create the athlete as a singular identity. Yet the disciplinary model of modern sport is consistently disrupted by the diversity and hybridity of the participants. Using Foucault's work on disciplinary power as a theoretical...
Athletic Identity
Invincible and Invisible, the Personal Development of the Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
The athlete is a mystery to many and the journey athletes encounter involve a number of complex events that over time can lead to unlimited success in and outside of the sporting environment. However being an athlete also brings on complex issues and requires a unique set of personal development services...
Peak
Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
“This book is a breakthrough, a lyrical, powerful, science-based narrative that actually shows us how to get better (much better) at the things we care about.”—Seth Godin, author of Linchpin
“Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read [Peak]. Rest assured that the book is...
10-Minute Toughness : The Mental Training Program for Winning Before the Game Begins
The Mental Training Program for Winning Before the Game Begins
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
“10-Minute Toughness is a solid mental training program. In fact I feel it is the best of its kind. . . . [It's] what the title says: ten minutes a day that connects your talents and abilities to the outcome you're seeking. As a retired NFL player looking forward, I can see as many applications...
Zen Putting
Mastering the Mental Game on the Greens
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
The bestselling author of Zen Golf (more than 100,000 copies sold) presents a new book of profound wisdom and proven techniques for achieving the confidence in putting that all golfers know is the key to peak performance on the greens.
Blending Buddhist wisdom, modern psychology, and practical...
by Tal Ben-Shahar
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Learn to be Happier. Week by Week.
In this week-by-week guided journal, Tal Ben-Shahar offers a full year's worth of exercises to inspire happiness every day. Using the groundbreaking principles of positive psychology that he taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University and that...
Summary of Peak
by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Summary of Peak by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool | Includes Analysis
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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise offers practical, evidence-based insight into what creates top performers and experts across a wide range of disciplines.
There is no such...