Sports Psychology category: 506 books

.  With the perspectives of UNICEF (Susan Bissell) and the International Olympic Committee (Margo Mountjoy), leading researchers such as Elizabeth Pike, Mike Hartill and Gretchen Kerr explore the types of abuse to both boys and girls that can defeat the numerous positive outcomes of sport...

Written by Dr Paul McCarthy, the first-ever resident Sport Psychologist at the home of golf, St Andrews, and Professor Marc Jones - here is a book to help all golfers.You do not have to play many rounds of golf to understand how much of the game is played in the mind. Different courses, conditions,...

El running, indiscutiblemente, es un fenómeno social: en total, según las encuestas de Runner’s World, la principal revista especializada, hay alrededor de dos millones y medio de practicantes del running en nuestro país. Lo que genera en España, según datos de la consultora NPD Group, más...

Part of the ‘20 Minute Golf Tune-Up’ series, this book is designed to get golfers practising more effectively on the range, before taking those improvements onto the course and into competition.Many golfers practise poorly on the range/putting green. Fact. They whack a bucket of balls for an hour...

El fútbol, entendido como un escenario para competir, y la niñez son dos conceptos que casan con mucha dificultad. Casi podría decirse que son agua y aceite. Sin embargo, las dos principales referencias de los jóvenes jugadores (padre-madre y entrenador) suelen confundir sus roles y utilizan el...

"What is your biggest frustration as a runner or walker?" Ask other runners and walkers this question, and you will get answers such as speedwork, injury recovery, and hydrating properly. Gratitude Power for Runners and Walkers shows that gratitude is the fastest path to preventing or eliminating...

Author Travis Paul, originally born in Linden, Guyana, takes us into the sometimes dangerous world of street fighting. This is a book of martial arts real life application. The author has developed his own martial arts after 28 years of not being able to afford martial arts school but having to survive...

In this revised and expanded edition of Bloodball, J. G. Van Tine probes the mind-set that dominates media sport. By uncovering covert games, tactics and payoffs, he redefines the hero worship that vaunts a tiny minority while luring the majority into conflicted passivity. As the sporting audience...

Part of the ‘20 Minute Golf Tune-Up’ series, this book is designed to help golfers overcome their nerves and boost their concentration levels. Through the examination of commonly experienced scenarios, readers will soon be playing better, more effective golf. Sections include what to do when:…you...

Athlete's physiques and conditioning levels have advanced significantly in the past decade. Now, it's time for their mental skills to catch up.         A Coach's Guide to Mental Skills in Soccer makes significant performance improvements possible through training their mind to parallel the body's...

There’s an interesting point at which the psychological and technical sides of golf meet--and Tom Nieporte and Don Sauers discover this by talking with America’s leading golf professionals. The tips provided in this book will help golfers of any level discover or regain confidence that will drop...

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In today’s hyper-competitive world, young athletes are often pushed to compete and pressured to succeed to the point of burnout. It doesn’t have to be that way, though, because many young runners genuinely enjoy training and racing. But in order to train and compete intelligently—to become better...

If you are a sport coach, it is critical that you establish a philosophy. This is the eBook version of a booklet I wrote in 2007 to help coaches learn the importance of establishing the 4 philosophies that all coaches should have – General Coaching/Athletic Philosophy, Sport-Specific Philosophy,...