Showing titles in Sports Psychology

Winning Without Winning: Mastering No Attachment Tennis is more than just a book, it is a game changer in sports psychology; it's your partner, your coach, your confidant in pursuit of becoming the greatest of all time in the sport of tennis.

In The Winning Mindset, Professor Damian Hughes, the acclaimed author of Liquid Thinking and How to Think Like Sir Alex Ferguson, draws on both his lifetime experience and academic background within sport, organization and change psychology to reveal the best ways to create a winning mindset in both personal and professional life.

The physical side of strength training has had plenty of attention from many authors, but the crucial mental side of the game is often overlooked & neglected. Learning to optimize the mental side of your game & truly experience "getting in the zone" will take you to a new level.

The Essential Sporting Mind Toolkit will help you develop the sports performance mind skills for mental toughness, to optimize performance and fulfill your true potential. It's every sportsperson's how to guide to achieve true potential. Even the most talented, fit and dedicated athletes fall short on training their minds.

This book can help you achieve greater success in your life. You are in total control. You are in the driving seat. Right now, you are the sum total of all your thoughts, all the decisions you have made and your experiences so far. The race is long, with many laps to go and ultimately it is only with yourself. Your success is not only the destination, but the journey. Race to win with these winning formulas.

Confidence is everything! Mental toughness matters! From the author of the top-rated soccer conditioning program, Dominate Game Day, and host of the award-winning podcast, The Soccer Specialist, comes the next tool you can use to take your performance to the next level. The most common question I get from soccer parents is some version of 'How to I help my child become more confident?' I've seen too many good kids struggle to perform as well as they could because they didn't have the confidence and mental performance tools to do so. I don't want you to have the same struggles. Talent will ...

The right MINDSET is the crucial factor in achieving the best results in your sport. This book will help you learn invaluable mindset skills fast! The Boomerang Effect mindset strategies are a unique blend of Western positive psychology and Eastern philosophies that all great athletes use. Sports people of any age, playing at any level, will find every mindset tool simple to understand and easy to apply.

The Athlete Mental Health Playbook is a beginner’s guide to mental wellness for athletes because players are humans, not robots. Growing up around sports and athletes, Misty Buck learned that expressing emotions was often labeled with phrases like, “stop being weak” or “you’re soft.” However, when she was a teenager, she endured difficulties and began to experience mental health issues. As she would come to learn, she wasn’t the only one struggling who felt like they couldn’t show it or talk about it. It took Misty many years to learn that mental health issues don’t mean ...

As the sports reporter for BBC Radio 1 for the best part of a decade, Simon Mundie was pitch-side at many of the most high-profile sporting events in history. It was often thrilling, but when he took to the airwaves to report on what he had seen, it increasingly felt like something was missing. The emphasis always seemed to be on results, tactics and the score. But as the saying goes, sport is a metaphor for life – so Simon set out to explore that.

Taking inspiration from the fable of the hare and the tortoise, internationally renowned trainer Matt Little recognises that there is no fast path to success. By focusing on immediate results, we can gloss over process in a race to get ahead, skipping over the lessons and experiences that we all need to build solid foundations for our achievements. Matt shows that taking the slow lane can not only help you reach your goals more effectively, it can make your successes more sustainable by increasing your motivation, energy and resilience.

Never have the best sportspeople seemed so far removed from the rest of us. So how are these extraordinary athletes made and what do their achievements tell us about success? The Best reveals how the most incredible sportspeople in the world got that way. It is a unique look at the path to sporting greatness. This is a story of origins, training, luck and serendipity, as well as of sports science and cutting-edge technology.

In a truly groundbreaking exposé of professional golf, Michael Calvin and Thomas Bjorn - captain of the 2018 European Ryder Cup Team - capture the distinctive nature of the game, and the principles and philosophies of players who dominate the world rankings. With unprecedented access to the European Tour players, and in-depth interviews with the European Ryder Cup team, Calvin reveals a sport which operates entirely within the finest margins of excellence.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Play On by Jeff Bercovici, read by Adam Sims. Sports are about challenging our physical limits. But the greatest limit of all remains undefeated: age. We're taught to believe that ageing thwarts effort and grace, talent and grit, outstanding teamwork and individual brilliance. But a new breed of top professionals - the likes of Roger Federer, Jo Pavey and Tom Brady - are overturning long-held assumptions about the duration of primetime in a sporting career. It's not that aging causes a decline in fitness; rather, a decline in fitness causes aging.

Master your mind, dominate your game, and rise above every challenge —no more fear, no more hesitation, just unwavering confidence and elite performance. Imagine unlocking the mental strength that propels elite athletes to greatness—confidence, focus, and resilience that others only dream of achieving. Most young athletes, parents, and coaches seek to enhance mental skills and achieve success, yet few truly understand how developing mental toughness can change lives both on and off the field. With Mental Mastery, you’ll discover how to enhance focus, build resilience, and boost ...

Lawrence shares 40 short life lessons and explains what you should do to focus your mind on your goals, however ambitious they are, so you can make your pipe dreams real, too.

This book focuses on the most important part of the game of golf: putting. Like all important things in life, it is often overlooked. By decreasing the number of putts you make by one on each hole, you can change your status from an average golfer to a scratch golfer. What they didn’t teach you as a beginner, what no books on slices or hooks tells you, what no practice range can cure, is the singularly critical component in successful golf: putting. Prior to starting any golf training program, practicing the “Sixth Sense System” is a must. The method teaches you how to putt as well as...

What's the secret of a great comeback? And how do we boost our mental fitness to succeed in sport and life? The Comeback Quotient provides inspiration and practical advice on building mental endurance and physical stamina. When bestselling sportswriter Matt Fitzgerald went through a coronavirus-George Floyd double whammy, he realized that nobody can escape setbacks in life so we all need to be able to pull off a comeback. In training for his first triathlon since 2009 and overcoming chronic injury, Matt Fitzgerald puts his ultrarealist mental fitness training to the test.

Being mentored by Chrissie Wellington would be a dream for any triathlete. In To the Finish Line, Chrissie presents her distilled wisdom, hard-won over the course of her extraordinary career, to give all triathletes the chance to learn from the very best. Chrissie writes with emotional honesty, and her warmth and sense of humour also shine through. She speaks frankly about her own experiences - both good and bad - from her career. Such stories will be a source of great inspiration to listeners.

This is a book for any Individual who wants to succeed. This is a book for any Team who wants to thrive. This is a book to help You fulfil your potential. Lessons in success from the front line of performance psychology to help you find your purpose, fulfil your potential, and thrive. During her two decades as a sport psychologist, Dr Kate Hays has been developing ‘The Building Blocks of Success’, a framework which has become a transformative programme for forging a winning mentality in both an individual and group setting.

How Extreme Sports Athletes Foster Flow for Success in Athletics, Business, and Daily LifeHave you always wanted to transform your performance through the power of flow and embodied practice? Would you like to learn remarkable flow and peak performance mental training that will empower you to shape your body and mind for longer, healthier, and happier experiences? If you've been looking for a practical flow book that will boost your potential to achieve success, then keep reading—this book is for you! Introducing Mastering Embodied Flow Mindset: Unleashing Peak Performance Potential in ...