Kategoria BISAC: Sports & Recreation >> Sports Psychology

In this controversial and engaging exploration of athletic success and the so-called 10,000-hour rule, David Epstein tackles the great nature vs. nurture debate and traces how far...

Can a better understanding of group dynamics raise individual and team athletic performance or improve the outcomes of exercise interventions?

Much human behaviour in sport and exercise settings is embedded within groups, where individuals' cognitions, emotions, and behaviours influence and are influenced by other group members. Now in a fully revised, updated, and expanded second edition, Group Dynamics in Exercise and Sport Psychology explores the unique psychological dynamics that emerge in sport and exercise groups. It provides a clear and thorough guide to...

• What are the challenges and potential pitfalls of real research?
• What decision-making process is followed by successful researchers?

The Research Process in Sport, Exercise and Health fills an important gap in the research methods literature. Conventional research methods textbooks focus on theory and descriptions of hypothetical techniques, while the peer-reviewed research literature is mainly concerned with discussion of data and the significance of results. In this book, a team of successful researchers from across the full range of...

Winning mindset = winning outcomes

An Olympic hopeful faces the end of his worst season yet. For a year he's been in a slump, not hitting his numbers. His trainer suggests a meeting with Loren Fogelman. After a single session with Loren, he ends the season on a positive note, winning the event and setting a new season best record.

A golfer complains of erratic, inconsistent play. New equipment doesn't solve the problem the way he thinks it should. Following Loren's advice, he transforms nearly every aspect of his mental game-he slows down, focuses his mind and concentrates on one...

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In this concise and highly acclaimed training guide, Coach DC Gonzalez teaches a blend of unique mental training technologies, sports psychology essentials, and peak performance methods that are effective and motivational, and designed to help you in business, sports, work, school, or life in general. Get...

Coaching is a vital factor for success in sport at all levels. Sport Coaching Concepts offers a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical issues that underpin sport coaching practice. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, it explains why a conceptual approach to sport coaching is more important than ever before, using practice-orientated analysis to help students develop a full understanding of coaching theory and technique.

Drawing on more than a decade s worth of research, the book reflects upon the profound changes that have transformed coach education and...

Coaching is a vital factor for success in sport at all levels. Sport Coaching Concepts offers a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical issues that underpin sport coaching practice. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, it explains why a conceptual approach to sport coaching is more important than ever before, using practice-orientated analysis to help students develop a full understanding of coaching theory and technique.

Drawing on more than a decade s worth of research, the book reflects upon the profound changes that have transformed coach education and...

When you combine physical and mental practice, your results are far greater.

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You've seen athletes do it in all sports:

*Members of the Olympic bobsled team just before their run, eyes closed, their bodies swaying back and forth as they visualize the run

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What separates good athletes from great athletes?

More importantly, what does it take for a good athlete to become a great athlete?

Is it practice?

Talent?

The right set of circumstances?

After over 5 years of studying the most elite performers in the world (from Special Operations soldiers to Olympic athletes), Dr. Jason Winkle has discovered the answer.

It turns out the best athletes in the world all have one thing in common: they can perform under high-pressure situations.

In The High-Performance Athlete, Dr. Winkle explores sports performance from the perspective...

What is life really like for the elite athlete? How does the experience of being a professional sports person differ from the popular perceptions of fans, journalists or academics? Why might elite sports people experience mental health difficulties away from the public gaze?

In the first book-length study of its kind, Kitrina Douglas and David Carless present the life stories of real elite athletes alongside careful analysis and interpretation of those stories in order to better understand the experience of living in sport. Drawing on psychology, sociology,...

Across the modern political spectrum, left-wing and right-wing political theorists have invested sport with ideological significance. That significance, however, varies distinctively and characteristically with the ideology--a phenomenon John Hoberman terms "ideological differentiation." Taking this phenomenon as its point of departure, this provocative work interprets the major sport ideologies of the twentieth century as distinct expressions of political doctrine.

Hoberman argues that a political ideology's interpretation of sport is shaped in part by the value it assigns to work...