Download or read book Mental Practice in Sport written by Boris Blumenstein and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is comprised of seven chapters which center upon psychological skills training (PST) for various sports and athletes. The authors' past experience in working with sportsmen and sportswomen emphasizes the importance of psychological support for athletic performance enhancement and brings together a summary of their theoretical and practical knowledge on this subject. This book consists of twenty case studies which greatly facilitate the translation of psychological theory into everyday practice. (Imprint: Novinka)
Download or read book Train Your Mind for Athletic Success written by Jim Taylor, PhD and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. And even though relatively few athletes will ever reach the top of their sport, the attitudes and life lessons learned from mental training—such as motivation, confidence, focus, perseverance, and resilience—will serve them well in all aspects of their lives. In Train Your Mind for Athletic Success: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals, Dr. Jim Taylor uses his own elite athletic experience and decades of working with some of the world’s best athletes to provide competitors of every ability with insights, practical exercises, and tools they can use to be mentally prepared when it really counts. His Prime Sport System explores the attitudes that lay the foundation for athletic success, the mental obstacles that can hold athletes back, the preparations they must take, the mental muscles they should strengthen, and the mental tools they need to fine tune their competitive performances. Most importantly, Dr. Taylor shows athletes practical strategies they can use to become mentally strong so they can perform their best when it matters most. Train Your Mind for Athletic Success goes well beyond the typical mental skills that are discussed in other mental training books. Readers will not only learn why mental preparation is so important to athletic success, but also where they personally are in each area thanks to brief mental assessments in each section of the book. In addition, each chapter includes exercises to show athletes how to incorporate mental training directly into their overall sport training regimen. The most comprehensive and in-depth book on mental preparation for athletes available, Train Your Mind for Athletic Success is an essential read for athletes, coaches, and parents.
Download or read book Playing in the Box A Practical Guide for Helping Athletes Develop Their Mental Game written by Dr Pete Temple and published by Lioncrest Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athletes work hard in practice, putting in the time and the grind, but when it comes to game time, sometimes they miss the mark. They know they're capable of more-and their coaches and trainers know it, too-but when the lights are on them, and the pressure rises, they often underperform. The truth is, physical training is only one part of any athlete's game. The mental game is just as important, yet in young athletes, mindset is almost never a focus in development and practice-and it's costing them results.In Playing in the Box, renowned sports psychologist Dr. Pete Temple describes how young athletes can use simple mental exercises to relax, improve, and achieve their goals on and off the field or court. If you've ever struggled in competition, Dr. Temple's practical approach will help you develop confidence, drive, and resilience, so you can bounce back from setbacks, relax when the game gets tense, and reach your full potential.
Download or read book Developing Sport Psychology Within Your Clinical Practice written by Jack J. Lesyk and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1998-02-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical and extremely useful guide is written for mental health professionals who want to apply the techniques of sport psychology to current clients with presenting problems such as depression, anxiety, and stress using techniques such as motivation, mild exercise, and self-talk. In addition, a new population of clients, including both serious and recreational athletes, women, seniors, and kids at all levels of skill and experience can be recruited. The author, a successful clinical and sport psychologist, gives detailed advice on the best way to include sport psychology in an existing practice. He also demonstrates how to apply cognitive-behavioral and social learning theories within a sport psychology context.
Download or read book Advances in Sport Psychology written by Thelma S. Horn and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2008 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third edition presents a thorough review of the literature and terminilogy in key topic areas. The clear explanation of potential research directions and the list of contributors make this a must-have book for students of sport psychology.
Download or read book Mental Training for Peak Performance written by Steven Ungerleider and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features suggestions and mind exercises to help athletes in many sports, including cycling, golf, running, swimming, tennis, and weightlifting.
Download or read book The Athlete s Guide to Sports Psychology written by Dorothy V. Harris and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daily Mental Practice written by William Chandon and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most athletes understand the need for physical practice. Reasonable athletes wouldn't expect to improve their performances without the right kinds of consistent practice. However, the idea of mental practice is much less understood and effectively practiced. Even if athletes are self-aware enough to know that they are limiting or sabotaging their performances, they often don't know how to fix the problem. If they knew how to fix themselves, they would.This book gives you a powerful way of working on your mental approach to athletic performance. The essence of a strong mental approach or" mental game" is when we correctly manage our thinking, emotions , and physical body in ways that work the best for us as individuals. We do that by regularly working on improving our mental game. We mentally practice.Now you have a simple and effective way of mentally practicing. You have a way of discovering and correcting the ways in which you are limiting or sabotaging yourself. You can start to mentally practice in as little as 15 minutes per day.This book is for athletes who are serious about fulfilling their potential. Development of a strong mental game takes practice and persistence. Development of a strong mental game is similar in scope to the development of physical skills in sports. Think of this book as working out. You're working out your mind and training yourself to perform your best.This book contains individual mental practices which are organized by the calendar. Each month has a unique topic. Each day has a unique mental practice. You can use the mental practices according to their date or you can use them by topic and what applies to you right now.The chapter topics are:January: Being in the ZoneFebruary: Vision QuestMarch: Being Mentally ToughApril: Being ConfidentMay: Being a ChampionJune: Welcoming ChallengesJuly: Training WellAugust: Being a Free SpiritSeptember: Being HealthyOctober: DevelopingAugust: November: LeadingDecember: Planning for SuccessThe goals of mental practice are to learn how to perform consistently at your highest levels. To do that you'll learn how to use "power thoughts" in your daily mental practices. A power thought is a short sentence that we use to engage our imagination and help us focus as we mentally practice, physically practice and as we compete.See how good you can be.
Download or read book Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement written by Keith A. Kaufman and published by American Psychological Association (APA). This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive resource on the history, theory, and practice of mindfulness in sport. The authors present their empirically-supported, six-session mindfulness program adapted for specific athletic populations.
Download or read book Imagery in Sport written by Tony Morris and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2005 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been known that almost all elite athletes use imagery and that most sport psychologists apply imagery in working with athletes. But most material on the subject has been, to this point, relegated to single chapters in books, to journal articles, or to conference proceedings. Now Imagery in Sport addresses the breadth of what researchers and practitioners in sport psychology know about the topic, and it treats each issue in depth, considering current theories and research on imagery and its application in sport. The reference also addresses future directions in research and practice for imagery in sport. In doing so, Imagery in Sport provides the most comprehensive look at the state of imagery and its uses in sport today. The authors take readers step by step through understanding, investigating, applying, and advancing imagery in sport. The text includes the following: -Sample scripts, preperformance suggestions, and sport-specific and site-specific tips -Presentation and critical analysis of 10 well-known theoretical frameworks for understanding imagery -A full chapter devoted to understanding and successfully using the available measures of imagery in sport, including how to administer imagery-ability measures Imagery in Sport takes complex theories and presents them clearly, using examples from everyday sport contexts. The book helps readers become familiar with the current knowledge about the topic and learn to view it with a critical eye. And it provides practicing sport psychologists with guidelines and strategies for using imagery to help athletes improve their performances.
Download or read book Imagery in Sports and Physical Performance written by Anees A. Sheikh and published by Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the use of imagery in sports. This work features contributors who are experts in their area, and together they have assembled the most relevant data produced by research and offer practical suggestions.
Download or read book Mental Practice 8 written by William Chandon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mental Practice book series evolved out of Dr. Chandon's experience coaching athletes. He found that athletes develop in their mental games in predictable stages. The speed of their development depends on how vigorously they apply themselves in their mental practices, physical practices and competitions. When motivated athletes are open to learning, practicing the right things in the right sequences and in the right ways, they rapidly progress. The Mental Practice series reflects the ideas of progressive development modeled by the martial arts. Mental Practice I-IX have different color covers to signify that they are modeled after martial arts development and the wearing of different color belts. The different color belts in the martial arts indicate mastery levels of the students and teachers. The Mental Practice book covers are yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, brown, black and red. As you develop in your mastery of each book, you earn that color "belt" in Mental Practice. You'll find that as you progress through the books, you'll be challenged to use your imaginative and creative abilities more. Imagination and creativity are key components of a well-developed mental practice. Mental Practice VIII includes mental practices on boundlessness, deep mental practices, power word competence, social competence, two kinds of problem solving, readiness to compete assessment, mental art gallery, being a great person and how to deal with bad circumstances. Mental Practice VIII also includes mental practices on high-speed and slow-speed mental practice. This book also includes descriptions of greatness, vision quest, and forgiveness lands and a new vision quest retreat. There are no legitimate short cuts to take in mental practice development. The learning is sequential and developmental. It's like climbing over a series of hills. You can only see what's over the next hill by climbing it and the next hills after that. Commit yourself, do the work and you'll progress in accordance with your effort level. Although there aren't shortcuts to take in mental game development, improving your mental game is a shortcut to high performance compared to athletes who don't work on their mental games. Now you can have a simple and effective way of mentally practicing. You have a way of discovering and correcting the ways in which you are limiting or sabotaging yourself. You have a way of learning to know what you don't know. You can start to practice mentally in as little as 15 minutes per day. This book is for athletes who are serious about fulfilling their potential. Development of a strong mental game takes practice and persistence. Development of a strong mental game is similar in scope to the development of physical skills in sports. Think of this book as working out. You're working out your mind and training yourself to perform your best. The individual mental practices are grouped by topics and chapter. Unconscious Competence The Zone Mental Toughness Developing Mental Skills Being a Champion Handling Challenges Planning for Success Being Healthy Training Well Confidence Motivation Being a Leader Being a Free Spirit Designing Your Kingdom Mental Practice Retreats Each mental practice has some reflections for you to consider and unique "Power Words" after the reflections. Power words are a simple sentence, phrase or individual words that you use to engage your imagination and help you focus as you mentally practice, physically train and compete. See how good you can be.
Download or read book Mental Health and Well being Interventions in Sport written by Gavin Breslin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental health within elite sport has traditionally been ignored, but recent research has shown that competitive sport can at times seriously undermine mental health and that athletes are exposed to specific stressors that hinder their mental health optimisation. Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport provides an indispensable guide for researchers and practitioners wanting to understand and implement sport-based intervention processes. This important book adopts an evidenced based approach, discussing the context of the intervention, its design and implementation, and its evaluation and legacy. With cases on depression, eating disorders, and athletic burnout, the book is designed to provide practitioners, policy makers and researchers with a cutting-edge overview of the key issues involved in this burgeoning area, while also including cases on how sport itself has been used as a method to improve mental health. Written for newcomers and established practitioners alike, the text is an essential read for researchers and practitioners in better understanding the sport setting-based intervention processes through presenting current research, theory and practice, applicable in a variety of sports settings and contexts.
Download or read book Sport and Exercise Psychology Research written by Markus Raab and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-06-18 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport and Exercise Psychology Research: From Theory to Practice provides a comprehensive summary of new research in sport and exercise psychology from worldwide researchers. Encompassing theory, research, and applications, the book is split into several themed sections. Section 1 discusses basic antecedents to performance including fitness, practice, emotion, team dynamics, and more. Section 2 identifies factors influencing individual performance. Section 3 discusses applied sport psychology for athletes and coaches, and section 4 includes approaches from exercise psychology on motivation and well-being. The book includes a mix of award winning researchers from the European Sport Psychology Association, along with top researchers from the U.S. to bring an international overview to sport psychology. - Includes international contributions from Europe and the U.S. - Encompasses theory, research, and applications - Includes sport psychology and exercise research - Features applied information for use with coaches, teams, and elite athletes - Identifies performance enhancers and inhibitors
Download or read book Mental Practice III written by William Chandon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mental Practice book series evolved out of Dr. Chandon's experience coaching athletes. He found that athletes develop in their mental games in predictable stages. The speed of their development depends on how vigorously they apply themselves in their mental practices, physical practices and competitions. When motivated athletes are open to learning, practicing the right things in the right sequences and in the right ways, they rapidly progress. The Mental Practice series reflects the ideas of progressive development modeled by the martial arts. Mental Practice books I-VII have different color covers to signify that they are modeled after martial arts development and the wearing of different color belts. The different color belts in the martial arts indicate mastery levels of the students and teachers. The Mental Practice book covers are yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, brown and black. As you develop in your mastery of each book, you earn that color "belt" in Mental Practice. You'll find that as you progress through the books, you'll be challenged to use your imaginative and creative abilities more. Imagination and creativity are key components of a well-developed mental practice. This book includes more mental practices. You'll have more assessment tools to help know what to work on. You'll learn how to undo deeply held beliefs that limit your performance. You'll understand how to recognize disempowering words versus empowering words. You'll learn how to create your own 30 Day Challenge. You'll learn how to evaluate your performances in a productive way. You'll learn a philosophy that is more powerful than simply focusing on wins and losses. The most significant barriers to success, breakthroughs and the fulfillment of our potential are ourselves. Life and sports serve us an unending amount of challenges. How we respond to our internal and external challenges is the essential part of whether we ultimately succeed or fail. The key isn't whether we have success or failures, what matters most is how we choose to understand them, learn from them, and keep moving forward. Life and sports can subtly erode our confidence, skill and motivation unless we are actively working to build them. This book gives you a powerful way of working on your mental approach to athletic performance. The essence of a strong mental approach or" mental game" is when we correctly manage our thinking, emotions, and physical body in ways that work the best for us as individuals. We do that by regularly working on improving our mental game. We mentally practice. Now you have a simple and effective way of mentally practicing. You have a way of discovering and correcting the ways in which you are limiting or sabotaging yourself. You can start to mentally practice in as little as 15 minutes per day. This book is for athletes who are serious about fulfilling their potential. Development of a strong mental game takes practice and persistence. Development of a strong mental game is similar in scope to the development of physical skills in sports. Think of this book as working out. You're working out your mind and training yourself to perform your best. The individual mental practices are grouped by topics. Mental Toughness Developing Mental Skills Being a Champion Handling Challenges Planning for Success Being Healthy Training Well Confidence and Motivation Being a Leader Being a Free Spirit Each mental practice has some reflections for you to consider and unique "Power Words" after the reflections. Power words are a simple sentence, phrase or individual words that you use to engage your imagination and help you focus as you mentally practice, physically train and compete. See how good you can be.
Download or read book Mental Practice VI written by William Chandon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-21 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mental Practice series of books is based on how athletes develop, which is in a series of often predictable stages. This book builds on the ideas and practices in Mental Practice I-V. Once you've mastered the tools and practices in Mental Practice books I-V, you'll be ready to use Mental Practice VI. This book includes a chapter on performing in The Zone. You'll do the following mental practices and more: The conditions required for performing in the zone Using music to perform in the zone How to "Bookmark" the zone Using progressive relaxation Using expectations effectively Trusting your body and why that's important Using challenges, skill and feedback Creating a warm up routine Recognizing the zone state Recognizing your unconscious power words Recognizing your unconscious dis-empowering words The importance of active acceptance Feeling zone energy Link between mindfulness and the zone The most significant barriers to success, breakthroughs and the fulfillment of our potential are ourselves. Sports serve us an unending number of challenges. How we respond to our internal and external challenges is the essential part of whether we ultimately succeed or fail. The key isn't whether we have success or failures, what matters most is how we understand them, learn from them, and keep moving advancing toward our goals. Life and sports can subtly erode our confidence, skill and motivation unless we are actively working to build them. This book gives you a powerful way of working on your mental approach to athletic performance. The essence of a strong mental approach or "mental game" is when we correctly manage our thinking, emotions , and physical body in ways that work the best for us as individual athletes. We do that by regularly working on improving our mental game. We mentally practice. Now you can have a simple and effective way of mentally practicing. You have a way of discovering and correcting the ways in which you are limiting or sabotaging yourself. You have a way of learning to know what you don't know. You can start to practice mentally in as little as 15 minutes per day. This book is for athletes who are serious about fulfilling their potential. Development of a strong mental game takes practice and persistence. Development of a strong mental game is similar in scope to the development of physical skills in sports. Think of this book as working out. You're working out your mind and training yourself to perform your best. The individual mental practices are grouped by topics. The Zone Mental Toughness Developing Mental Skills Being a Champion Handling Challenges Planning for Success Being Healthy Training well Confidence Motivation Being a Leader Being a Free Spirit Designing Your Sanctuary Mental Practice Retreats Each mental practice has some reflections for you to consider and unique "Power Words" after the reflections. Power words are a simple sentence, phrase or individual words that you use to engage your imagination and help you focus as you mentally practice, physically train and compete. See how good you can be.
Download or read book Mental Practice II written by William Chandon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mental Practice book series evolved out of Dr. Chandon's experience coaching athletes. He found that athletes develop in their mental games in predictable stages. The speed of their development depends on how vigorously they apply themselves in their mental practices, physical practices and competitions. When motivated athletes are open to learning, practicing the right things in the right sequences and in the right ways, they rapidly progress. The Mental Practice series reflects the ideas of progressive development modeled by the martial arts. Mental Practice books I-VII have different color covers to signify that they are modeled after martial arts development and the wearing of different color belts. The different color belts in the martial arts indicate mastery levels of the students and teachers. The Mental Practice book covers are yellow, orange, green, blue, purple, brown and black. As you develop in your mastery of each book, you earn that color "belt" in Mental Practice. You'll find that as you progress through the books, you'll be challenged to use your imaginative and creative abilities more. Imagination and creativity are key components of a well-developed mental practice. This book includes an expanded assessment, more tools, and mental practices. You'll learn to develop and use your Power Word Chart that will guide you in your mental and physical practices, and while you compete. You'll learn how to do One Minute Mental Practices that can significantly increase your mental practices. You'll take your mental practices with you throughout your day. Most athletes understand the need for physical practice. Reasonable athletes wouldn't expect to improve their performances without the right kinds of consistent practice. However, the idea of mental practice is much less understood and effectively practiced. Even if athletes are self-aware enough to know that they are limiting or sabotaging their performances, they often don't know how to fix the problem. If they knew how to fix themselves, they would. This book gives you a powerful way of working on your mental approach to athletic performance. The essence of a strong mental approach or" mental game" is when we correctly manage our thinking, emotions, and physical body in ways that work the best for us as individuals. We do that by regularly working on improving our mental game. We mentally practice. Now you have a simple and effective way of mentally practicing. You have a way of discovering and correcting the ways in which you are limiting or sabotaging yourself. You can start to mentally practice in as little as 15 minutes per day. This book is for athletes who are serious about fulfilling their potential. Development of a strong mental game takes practice and persistence. Development of a strong mental game is similar in scope to the development of physical skills in sports. Think of this book as working out. You're working out your mind and training yourself to perform your best. The individual mental practices are grouped by topics. Mental Toughness Developing Mental Skills Being a Champion Handling Challenges Planning for Success Being Healthy Training Well Confidence and Motivation Being a Leader Being a Free Spirit There are over 200 individual mental practices. Each mental practice has some reflections for you to consider and unique "Power Words" after the reflections. Power words are a simple sentence, phrase or individual words that you use to engage your imagination and help you focus as you mentally practice, physically train and compete. See how good you can be.
