Author: Andrejs Birjukovs
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
ISBN: 1578269563
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 479

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The Resilient Athlete presents a step-by-step self-coaching framework designed to build foundational fitness and develop athletic resilience while optimizing your training for sports, athletics and adventure. The Resilience Athlete presents a series of self-coaching sessions, much like ones people would have with a performance coach. These are not geared towards one particular sport, but rather focus on creating an ultimate athletic experience, one where physical and emotional states are in balance with purpose. Inside the book, readers will discover: Actionable advice to incorporate into one's daily training Strategies to cultivate the mindset to take on challenges and grow in confidence Systems to adopt healthy lifestyle habits to have more energy and feel less stressed The Resilient Athlete also features training tactics, schedules, and plans to help readers optimize fitness while becoming the very best they can be as an athlete. Online support via social media, community forums, and website featuring additional content such as exclusive exercise videos, nutritional tips, live updates from authors, and more is available. Resilient athletes are made, not born and The Resilient Athlete makes it easy for anyone to learn how to become one. Training for a challenge or goal can be daunting, and the journey fraught with the potential for injury or other setbacks.

Author: Jeffrey J. Huber
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 1492581348
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Applying Educational Psychology in Coaching Athletes discusses how to improve coaching success and athletic performance through the application of teaching principles and theories. Delving deeper than an explanation of what athletes learn and what coaches teach, Applying Educational Psychology in Coaching Athletes offers insight into the how of athletes’ learning and coaching by considering • principles of psychology that drive the emotions, motivation, expectations, self-worth, and relationships of athletes; • application of principles of psychology to the motor learning process; and • use of principles of educational psychology to improve sport expertise and coaching success. A three-time U.S. Olympic coach and veteran collegiate coach, Huber infuses his own experience in applying theories of educational psychology in working with individual athletes, as well as world-class national and international teams. With an engaging presentation and strong practical applications, Huber assists coaching students and practicing coaches in utilizing educational psychology as a platform for improving coaching skills. Applying Educational Psychology in Coaching Athletes introduces the idea of the developing coach as both teacher and learner, and how coaching principles and a strong coaching philosophy provide a foundation for effective management and decision-making. By considering the theories that drive successful coaching, developing coaches gain focus, motivation, and guidance as they learn how a thoughtful coach provides the structure and discipline to make athletes more successful on the field of play. Throughout the text, Huber focuses on how athletes learn, considering theories of motivation, behaviorism, cognition, and humanism, and the interplay between emotions and motor learning and performance. Each chapter opens with a coaching related anecdote that readers can relate to in order to highlight the significance of the theory under consideration. After careful explanation of each theory, Huber details concrete examples, guidelines, and specific applications for coaching. In addition to summary information, each chapter concludes with ‘Your Coaching Toolbox,’ which focuses readers on ways to incorporate their newly gained knowledge into their interactions with athletes. Applying Educational Psychology in Coaching Athletes is unmatched in its depth of insight into the teaching and learning process in sport and how to put it into practice. By examining how athletes learn and coaches teach, the text helps coaches understand how to maximize athlete performance and increase their athletic success.

Author: Erin Taylor
Publisher: VeloPress
ISBN: 1937716775
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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HIT RESET offers athletes new ways to find more speed, power, and endurance. Yoga coach Erin Taylor’s HIT RESET program uses yoga to solve the specific problems you face as an athlete. Her revolutionary approach to yoga can improve functional strength, flexibility, muscle recruitment, breathing and focus, core strength, and durability. HIT RESET starts by defining 10 problems that hold athletes back and the yoga solutions that can fix them. Each chapter shows you how your body should work, how to self-diagnose flaws in your movement and functional strength, and how to apply just a few specific yoga poses so you can “hit reset” and get back to athletic form. The yoga solutions in HIT RESET take just a few minutes before or after your workout, and you won’t need a mat or studio classes. Armed with these key, highly effective yoga fixes, you’ll begin a radical redefinition of balance that can make you a healthier, stronger, and faster athlete. HIT RESET can help you solve: Imbalances that lead to injury by redefining balance from head to toe Feeling easily winded with deep breathing exercises Feeling distracted or nervous with focus exercises Poor posture with core activating and strengthening poses Sleepy feet and stiff calves for a stronger foundation Knee pain with better form and strength poses Stiff hamstrings and sleepy glutes with activation exercises Unstable hips and IT band problems with hip helpers Stiff shoulders and sides with opening poses Yoga can help you in your sport, but only if your yoga is solving the problems you face as an athlete. HIT RESET offers a yoga revolution for athletes by making yoga work for you. Join the HIT RESET revolution and you’ll find a no-nonsense approach that will make you a stronger, more resilient athlete.

Author: Richard Thelwell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131742347X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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This is the first book to offer a comprehensive review of current research in the psychology of sports coaching. It provides detailed, critical appraisals of the key psychological concepts behind the practice of sports coaching and engages with contemporary debates in this field. Organised around three main themes, it discusses factors affecting the coaching environment; methods for enhancing coach performance; and how to put theory into practice through coaching work. Written by an international team of researchers and practitioners at the cutting edge of psychology and coaching, each chapter introduces a key concept, defines key terms, provides a comprehensive literature review, and considers implications for future research and applied practice. Encompassing the latest developments in the field, it addresses topics such as: the theory behind effective coaching creating performance environments promoting psychological well-being developing resilience through coaching transformational leadership and the role of the coach. The Psychology of Sports Coaching: Research and Practice is an indispensable resource for sport psychologists and sports coaches, and is essential reading for all students and academics researching sport psychology.

Author: Ross Edgley
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008356963
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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‘Incredible individual, incredible book, incredible story.’ CHRIS HEMSWORTH ‘A hero who is as humble as he is resilient... testament to a “never give up” spirit!’ BEAR GRYLLS ‘From reading this book, the message that comes shining through is this: you can achieve anything.’ ANT MIDDLETON

Author: Tamar Chansky
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0786726059
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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A leading clinical expert in the fields of child cognitive behavior therapy and anxiety disorders, Dr. Tamar Chansky frequently counsels children (and their parents) whose negative thinking creates chronic or occasional emotional hurdles and impedes optimism, flexibility, and happiness. Now, in the first book that specifically focuses on negative thinking in kids, Freeing Your Child from Negative Thinking provides parents, caregivers, and clinicians the same clear, concise, and compassionate guidance that Dr. Chansky employed in her previous guides to relieving children from anxiety and obsessive compulsive symptoms. Here she thoroughly covers the underlying causes of children's negative attitudes, as well as providing multiple strategies for managing negative thoughts, building optimism, and establishing emotional resilience.

Author: Erica Suter MS
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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The Strong Female Athlete is an evidence-based and experience-based text with a fresh, novel approach for youth female athletes to improve speed, reduce injury, and increase strength. In this exuberant body of work, Erica Suter gives a deep understanding of female athlete growth and maturation, anatomy and physiology, nutritional needs, menstrual cycle considerations, and performance training progressions. She presents the science, but in a way that is readable and fun for coaches, parents, and young girls. This is way easier to read than a scientific study! The final chapters discuss mental training and how female athletes can improve confidence, and overcome challenges from sports and life.

Author: Simon Marshall
Publisher: VeloPress
ISBN: 1937716910
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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The Brave Athlete solves the 13 most common mental conundrums athletes face in their everyday training and in races. You don’t have one brainyou have three; your ancient Chimp brain that keeps you alive, your modern Professor brain that navigates the civilized world, and your Computer brain that accesses your memories and runs your habits (good and bad). They fight for control all the time and that’s when bad things happen; you get crazy nervous before a race, you choke under pressure, you quit when the going gets tough, you make dumb mistakes, you worry about how you look. What if you could stop the thoughts and feelings you don’t want? What if you could feel confident, suffer like a hero, and handle any stress? You can. The Brave Athlete from Dr. Simon Marshall and Lesley Paterson will help you take control of your brain so you can train harder, race faster, and better enjoy your sport. Dr. Marshall is a sport psychology expert who trains the brains of elite professional athletes. Paterson is a three-time world champion triathlete and coach. Together, they offer this innovative, brain training guide that is the first to draw from both clinical science and real-world experience with athletes. That means you won’t find outdated “positive self-talk” or visualization gimmicks here. No, the set of cutting-edge mental skills revealed in The Brave Athlete actually work because they challenge the source of the thoughts and feelings you don’t want. The Brave Athlete is packed with practical, evidence-based solutions to the most common mental challenges athletes face. Which of these sound like you? Why do I have thoughts and feelings I don’t want? I wish I felt more like an athlete. I don’t think I can. I don’t achieve my goals. Other athletes seem tougher, happier, and more badass than me. I feel fat. I don’t cope well with injury. People are worried about how much I exercise. I don’t like leaving my comfort zone. When the going gets tough, the tough leave me behind. I need to harden the f*ck up. I keep screwing up. I don’t handle pressure well. With The Brave Athlete: Calm the F*ck Down and Rise to the Occasion, you can solve these problems to become mentally strong and make your brain your most powerful asset.

Author: Reggie Williams
Publisher: Post Hill Press
ISBN: 1642933899
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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In so many ways, Reggie Williams has had the type of life that people dream of: he starred as an athlete, excelled with an Ivy League education, built a sports empire as part of an iconic corporate brand, achieved global impact as a public servant, and won major honors for his community work. Along the way, Williams glowed on the biggest stages alongside celebrities, business leaders, and social icons. Yet Williams’s life has also presented a nightmare—and a determined mission to score another victory—with the battle to save his right leg from amputation. The residual effects of a fourteen-year career as an NFL linebacker has challenged Williams—who has undergone twenty-eight surgeries for football injuries, including multiple knee replacement operations—to draw on the resilience that has been at the foundation of his rise from the beginning. In Resilient by Nature, Williams provides an intimate account of his remarkable journey while also sharing his unique perspectives on a wide variety of issues.

Author: Eric Minkwitz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781795526227
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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The Forever an Athlete Program provides a new beginning to a leaner, stronger, more functional, and healthier you! Throughout this book, learn advanced training techniques, combined with knowledge about healing foods, to naturally accelerate strength, build physical durability, reduce inflammation, improve focus, and promote sustained energy through nutrient timing. Eric Minkwitz created this program after more than 20 years of expertise gained while training highly competitive athletes and busy professionals; studying the field of human performance; and pushing his own limits as a multi-sport athlete and bodybuilder. Eric's methods have helped hundreds of clients transform their bodies; build lean muscle; achieve functional strength; enhance athleticism; and improve mobility.The Forever an Athlete Program empowers you to achieve mastery over your lifestyle, regardless of age, using optimization strategies and revitalizing mind-body techniques. Here's a sneak peek inside this book:--High performance foods - presenting unique food choices packed with vitamins, phytonutrients, protein, and fiber to enhance energy and focus--Nutrient dense recipes and bodybuilding grocery lists - providing meal planning to effectively recover from training and build lean muscle--Sports nutrition timing ideas - helping you closely match macronutrients with your daily activities--Food signatures - profiling the link between fresh foods and mental and physical function--Professional sports performance exercises - encouraging methods to build better posture, functional movement, and pack on lean muscle --Speed, agility, and power training - describing innovative footwork movements to increase athletic skill, while simultaneously shredding fat--Innovative rehab exercises - uncovering the secrets to successfully counteract the effects of sitting --Exercise descriptions and photos - demonstrating how to build mobility and strength in your hips, knees, core, and shoulders--Strategies for optimizing hormonal balance - profiling quick daily habits to help reduce cortisol and enhance testosterone levels--And many more health and fitness techniques and tips!Whether you are a multi-sport athlete, or just starting out, this book enables you to master any physical or life-related challenge that comes your way!BUY NOW and get ready to charge forward!~Eric "Mink"