Finding your suitable sports psychology books is not easy. You may need consider between hundred or thousand products from many store. In this article, we make a short list of the best sports psychology books including detail information and customer reviews. Let’s find out which is your favorite one.
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1. Sports Psychology - A Complete Introduction (Teach Yourself)
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Sports Psychology A Complete IntroductionDescription
Sport Psychology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear, jargon-free English and providing added-value features like summaries of key experiments and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam.The book uses a structure that mirrors the way sports psychology is taught on many university courses, and is split into theory and application. Chapters in the first part include coverage of essential personality traits, including mental toughness, confidence, motivation and character. The chapters on applied sports psychology cover topics such as assessment, working with groups, skills training, coping techniques and working with coaches and children. There is also substantial coverage of measurement questionnaires, skills and routes to practice.
Sport Psychology employs the 'Breakthrough Method' to help you advance quickly at any subject, whether you're studying for an exam or just for your own interest. The Breakthrough Method is designed to overcome typical problems you'll face as learn new concepts and skills.
- Problem: "I find it difficult to remember what I've read."; Solution: this book includes end-of-chapter summaries and questions to test your understanding.
- Problem: "Lots of introductory books turn out to cover totally different topics than my course."; Solution: this book is written by a university lecturer who understands what students are expected to know.
2. This is Your Brain on Sports: Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good!
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"THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON SPORTS is a must read for anyone involved in or simply interested in sports. It tells the real story of what I went through and how countless athletes of all levels are still going through now.....unnecessarily. When no one else could, they helped me to recognize how my throwing problems came directly from sports traumas that were stuck in my brain. And then Grand and Goldberg had the knowhow to release it with the miracle of Brainspotting."Mackey Sasser
Former catcher for NY Mets
"THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON SPORTS is a MUST READ for athletes, their parents and coaches, as well as for all psychotherapists and performance experts. In case you didn't know it, THE YIPS has a clearly explainable relationship to past trauma. All one has to do is take a detailed history of the life of an athlete from his/her earliest childhood, relate that to his/her history of physical injuries and throw in a dollop of shame and criticism from parents and coaches and the reason for the yips emerges with crystal clarity. These facts are clearly illustrated in this compelling, fascinating and ground-breaking book by Drs. Grand and Goldberg. Brain-based principles of body-based memory, neurosensitization and cue-related anxiety from the trauma literature clearly prove that the yips come from post-traumatic stress syndrome. And Brainspotting has shown to be dramatically effective in mitigating, and even healing, this vexing syndrome."
Robert Scaer, MD
Author of THE BODY BEARS THE BURDEN and THE TRAUMA SPECTRUM
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON SPORTS: Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good! is the ground-breaking book that will change the face of sports performance forever. This book introduces the breakthrough concept of STSD (Sport Traumatic Stress Disorder). Grand and Goldberg have discovered that STSDs are the cause of most significant performance problems. Performance blocks and anxiety, including the yips, stem from accumulated sports traumas including sports injuries, failures and humiliations. The authors also introduce the Brainspotting Sports Performance System (BSPS) which quickly finds, releases and resolves the sports traumas held in your brain and body. An easy read, THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON SPORTS is filled with engaging, informative, inspiring stories. These case examples illustrate how professional, elite, collegiate and junior athletes have been freed for good from this silent "epidemic" of performance blocks and anxiety including: the yips, "Steve Blass disease," "Mackey Sasser syndrome," protracted slumps, balking, choking and freezing. THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON SPORTS provides the answers and the cure for athletes, their coaches and parents about "Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good!" Grand and Goldberg also show how their BSPS can take all athletes to levels they could only heretofore dream of! www.thisisyourbrainonsports.com
3. Sport Psychology: The Basics: Optimising Human Performance
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This comprehensive and accessible resource can be used as textbook or a self-help book and is aimed at students, athletes, coaches, sport scientists or indeed any-one looking to enhance their performance, whatever their sport or activity. The psychological concepts may even be useful for those working in business. It covers the key topics in sport psychology, but also addresses current issues such as talent identification, mental toughness, risk taking, stress management, mindfulness, gender issues, sporting injuries and the use of social media. It contains examples from a multitude of sports around the world, and new developing areas such as strength and conditioning, extreme sport and combat sports.
Recognising the importance for the reader to fully understand the topic in order to apply this knowledge, the book provides a comprehensive overview of each topic before presenting practical applications as well as recommending online resources. Every chapter focuses around answering key questions integral to each topic within sports psychology, helping the reader to progress in their understanding of the theory and learning how to apply it.
Sports used as examples include: Football (soccer), rugby, tennis, cricket, motorsport, swimming, winter sports, weight lifting, martial arts, athletics (track & field), baseball, and American football.
4. Think Like a Warrior: The Five Inner Beliefs That Make You Unstoppable (Sports for the Soul) (Volume 1)
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Think Like a Warrior The Five Inner Beliefs That Make You UnstoppableDescription
Discover the five inner beliefs shared by the world's greatest achievers.
If you want to take control of your life and achieve your biggest dreams, you must develop a "warrior mindset." This book will show you how to stop thinking like a victim and start thinking like a warrior.
In this inspirational fable, Chris McNeely is a college football coach who is at the end of his rope after a hard-and-fast fall from the top of his profession. Now bankrupt and on the verge of losing his job, he has no idea what hes doing wrong or how to get back on track.
Angry, worried, and desperate for help, Chris receives mysterious visits from five of history's greatest coaches: John Wooden, Buck ONeil, Herb Brooks, Paul "Bear" Bryant, and Vince Lombardi.
Together, these five legendary leaders teach Chris how to "think like a warrior" and take control of his life. The "warrior mindset" he develops changes his life foreverand it will change yours as well.
Discover the life-changing lessons of John Wooden, Buck O'Neil, Herb Brooks, Bear Bryant, and Vince Lombardi in this inspirational tale of what it takes to achieve your dreamswhatever those dreams may be.
This book will show you how to...
- Build your self-confidence
- Develop mental toughness
- Attack every day with joy and enthusiasm
- Use a positive mental attitude to achieve more
- Harness the power of positive self-talk
- Be a positive leader for your family and your team
- Become the person you were born to be
- And much more
The five inner beliefs revealed in this book will empower you to take control of your life and overcome any obstacle that stands in your way.
5. Sports Psychology For Dummies
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Acquiring the winning edge in sports-the mental edgeMental conditioning is now seen by many to be as critical to sports success as physical conditioning. And for parents eager to ensure their children have a winning edge-as well as a future college scholarship-nothing could be more critical to success. This book offers readers a comprehensive program to gain that winning edge, providing training tips and techniques along with helpful advice to keep in mind while competing. With practical advice on how to strengthen concentration (and when you shouldn't concentrate), talk yourself into winning, and develop routines that will lead to consistent improvement, the book's full personalized program will help any athlete gain over time the winning edge in any sport
- With tips on how to regulate your energy to avoid exhaustion; and how to enhance your team's chemistry through sports psychology
- Loaded with real-world examples from amateur and professional sports of all kinds
Applicable to not only sports-but business as well-Sports Psychology For Dummies will enhance any competitor's motivation, focus, and will to win, when facing life's toughest challenges.
6. Relentless Optimism: How a Commitment to Positive Thinking Changes Everything (Sports for the Soul) (Volume 3)
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Studies prove that positive thinkers are happier, healthier, and more successful than everyone else. Discover the simple, proven techniques for becoming a more positive person...
Positive thinking leads to positive outcomes. Study after study proves this. Researchers have found that optimistic people live longer, live healthier, have more energy, have more successful careers, make better decisions, are more productive, are less stressed, have healthier relationships, and (not surprisingly) are much happier than pessimists.
However, a lot has been misunderstood about what it means to be a positive thinker and what it takes to maintain an optimistic mindset. It takes a lot more than repeating feel-good platitudes to make positive thinking work in your life. It takes discipline, commitment, and a proper understanding of what optimism really means in a world that is constantly throwing new challenges at us.
This is a book for anyone who has ever questioned whether positive thinking really works.
Its also a book for those who have tried to develop a more positive attitude, but have found it difficult to eliminate the voices of fear, doubt, and cynicism.
This is a book for anyone who wants to put optimism to work in their life with practical, proven techniques.
In this inspirational fable, youll meet Bobby Kane, a 31-year-old minor league baseball player who realizes his dream of making it to the majors is finally coming to a disappointing end. His dream, he believes, was not meant to be.
That is, until Bobby meets an unconventional manager named Wally Hogan. More mental coach than baseball manager, Wally teaches Bobby that if you want to change your life, you have to first change your thinking.
As youll see in this book, developing a positive mindset gives Bobby a renewed chance to make his dreams come truenot just in baseball, but in all areas of his life.
Wally teaches Bobby what it means to be an optimist and what it takes to maintain a positive attitude through the ups and downs of life. He teaches him proven, real-world techniques for building and sustaining optimism. These methods have an immediate impact on Bobbys life and they will have an immediate impact on yours as well.
This book will show you just how powerful a positive attitude can be and it will teach you how to use positive thinking to make your biggest dreams come true.
7. The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.
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The Talent Code Greatness Isn t Born It s Grown Here s HowDescription
With a canny grasp of his subject, Daniel Coyle looks at the development of extraordinary talent, particularly in athletes, and the revolutionary scientific discoveries unlocking the talent code behind it. Cutting across the nature/nurture argument, Coyle examines research into myelin, a neural insulator produced when we repeatedly fire a particular circuit; the more myelin produced along that circuit, the stronger, faster, and more accurate our [relevant] movements and thoughts become. Interviewing top coaches, educators and researchers, traveling to talent hot spots and neurology labs, Coyle describes three steps (roughly: visualizing and comprehending, repeating and perfecting, and emotional connection) employed (knowingly or not) by talents like the skate-boarding Z-Boys, Brazilian soccer players, the Bronte sisters, pop musicians, outperforming school kids and others, as well as ways to understand and spur that process along (in ourselves and others). An exciting, accessible window into research that could trigger a revolution in education and the treatment of mental illness, this intriguing study also puts better-known models of learning into perspective: Practice doesnt make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.8. Head in the Game: The Mental Engineering of the World's Greatest Athletes
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An intriguing blend of science and sports that explores how some of the worlds greatest athletes are utilizing the last frontier of performance-enhancing technologythe mental mapping and engineering of their own brainsfor peak performance, and what it means for the future of athleticism, sports, and the rest of us.
Moneyball showed how statistics were revolutionizing baseball. The Sports Gene revealed the role genetics play in sports. Now, Head in the Game examines the next evolution: how mental engineeringthe manipulation of the cognitive processes of the braincan make gifted athletes even better.
For years, technologyfrom EEG (electroencephalogram) to fMRI (Functional magnetic resonance imaging) to video games, tablets, and personal data collection deviceshave been used with soldiers to understand their physical and mental functioning. Touching on brain functionality vital to sportsboth the "hard" (coordination, stimuli processing, functional memory, decision-making, load-processing) and the "soft" (emotion regulation, visualization, psychology, mindfulness)this tech is now being adopted by scores of championship franchises and top athletesincluding scrappy underdogs forced to innovate and elite players looking for an advantage.
Star NFL quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Tom Brady, the NBAs Kyle Korver, and Olympic volleyball champion Kerri Walsh are using mental engineering to up their game. Its not luck that has transformed the San Antonio Spurs into a formidable forceits science, Sneed demonstrates. As mental engineering becomes widespreadtaking athletes who are already freaks of nature and making them betterthe impact on the multi-billion dollar sports industry will be dramatic on players, managers, trainers, owners, and even fans. Interviewing athletes and coaches, visiting training camps and sports science firms, Brandon Sneed offers a firsthand, on-the-ground look at this exciting breakthrough that has the potential to transform to transform the gameand all our lives.
9. The Champion's Mind: How Great Athletes Think, Train, and Thrive
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The Champion s Mind How Great Athletes Think Train and ThriveDescription
Even among the most elite performers, certain athletes stand out as a cut above the rest, able to outperform in clutch, game-deciding moments. These athletes prove that raw athletic ability doesn't necessarily translate to a superior on-field experience its the mental game that matters most.
Sports participation-from the recreational to the collegiate Division I level-is at an all-time high. While the caliber of their games may differ, athletes at every level have one thing in common: the desire to excel. In The Champion's Mind, sports psychologist Jim Afremow, PhD, offers the same advice he uses with Olympians, Heisman Trophy winners, and professional athletes, including:
- How to get in a "zone," thrive on a team, and stay humble
- How to progress within a sport and sustain long-term excellence
- Customizable pre-performance routines to hit full power when the gun goes off or the puck is dropped
With hundreds of useful tips, breakthrough science, and cutting-edge workouts from the world's top trainers, The Champion's Mind will help you shape your body to ensure a longer, healthier, happier lifetime.
10. The Art of Mental Training: A Guide to Performance Excellence (Collector's Edition)
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Achieve the Champion Mindset for Peak Performance With This Amazon Best-Seller.
Reach New Levels of Success and Mental Toughness With This Ultimate Guide.
Learn the "Science of Success" - Step by Step - and Prepare to Excel.
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In this concise and highly acclaimed training guide, Peak Performance Coach and Best-Selling Author 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 ready to increase your self-belief, self-confidence, and mental toughness using this powerful guide and to reach new levels of success, sports performance and personal development.
Coach DC Gonzalez is among a very fortunate few that have had the unique experience of learning from the late P.C. Siegel, a world-renowned sports and peak performance authority, sports hypnotherapist, and Neuro Linguistics Programming (NLP) Master Practitioner.
This book is powerful, in it Dan explains, teaches, and helps you develop the psychological skills required for peak performance, while pointing out the underlying mental training strategies that will help anyone reach higher levels of achievement and performance - not by random chance, but by focused choice.
The Art of Mental Training teaches the critical essentials while interwoven with stories from Dan's fascinating background as an Aviator in the Navy, a Federal Agent, Military Cyber-Security Specialist, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt and a Peak Performance Coach. Dan creates a powerful teaching connection between his adrenaline-filled life experiences and the mental skills and mental training that make all the difference.
Access your true potential, control your state and excel even under extreme pressure
Enhance performance by transforming the negative energy generated by nervousness and fear into shatterproof confidence
Improve focus and concentration for positive results often instantly with battle-tested mental training techniques
Learn the psychological factors that will help you view set-backs as opportunities to create lasting positive change
Enhance visualization techniques and create success imagery loaded with feelings and emotions that will generate powerful results
Understand what to practice and which success conditioning exercises will vastly improve your self-belief, self-confidence and performance
Gain access to the coaching psychology behind redirecting anger energy and using it to strengthen your resolve and remain in control
Use proven sport psychology techniques to leave your ego outside your event and avoid performance choking completely
Learn to create the Ideal Performance State using Neuro Linguistics Programming and The Critical Three
Get rid of limiting beliefs and the negative critic in your head once and for all
Achieve the champion mindset and gain the mental edge over your opponents or the situation on demand
Learn how to find the place from which peak performance springs forth
The lessons and techniques presented in this book are essential reading for anyone seeking more success and peak performance, whether it be on the playing field, in business, or life in general. Whatever your personal endeavor may be, whatever challenge you may be facing; these lessons will prepare you to move forward and to excel in a powerful way. Reach new levels of personal success and performance, as you learn, practice, and apply these powerful concepts and proven techniques.
11. Bring Your "A" Game: A Young Athlete's Guide to Mental Toughness
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Mental training is just as important as physical training when it comes to success in sport. And like physical fitness, mental toughness is something that can be taught and learned. Yet many young athletes have not learned the psychological skills needed to develop their best game. This book was written specifically for young athletes interested in improving their performance and reaching their potential in sport.Bring Your "A" Game introduces key strategies for mental training, such as goal setting, pre-performance routines, confidence building, and imagery. Each of the seventeen chapters focuses on a single mental skill and offers key points and exercises designed to reinforce the concepts. The book encourages athletes to incorporate these mental skills into their daily lives and practice sessions so that they become second nature during competition.
Whether used at home by student athletes or assigned by coaches as part of team development, Bring Your "A" Game will help young performers develop a plan for success and learn to deal with the challenges of pursuing excellence in sport.
12. The Swimming Psychology Workbook: How to Use Advanced Sports Psychology to Succeed in the Swimming Pool
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THE ONLY SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY WORKBOOK THATS EXCLUSIVELY DESIGNED FOR SWIMMERS TO BUILD MENTAL TOUGHNESS AND BOOST THEIR ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE
Swimmers hear it all the time
"Swimming is 90% Mental, and 10% Physical
"It's All in Your Head"
"The Only One that Can Stop You is You"
"You have to be Mentally Tough!"
But what exactly do those sayings mean??? Without something concrete, it's difficult for players to understand what it specifically takes to have a mental approach primed for success.
And rather than have a debate with someone who knows nothing about mental training or sports psychology... or read about theories and mental hacks that may or may not work off some random website...why not use a detailed, interactive, and engaging workbook that shows and teaches athletes how specific Sports Psychology concepts directly impact their performance in the swimming pool?
That's exactly what you've found here!
Through 10 Dynamic Exercises... we take athlete's on a journey through the Most debilitating Mental and Emotional Obstacles faced by the Vast Majority of Competitors including:
-Decreased Levels in Motivation
-Lack of Goal-Setting Capability
-Suppressing Unwanted Thoughts
-An Inability to get "In a Zone"
-Experiencing Overwhelming Pre-Match Jitters, Nerves, and Anxiety
-Overcoming Serious and Debilitating Injuries
-Zero Formal Education of Necessary Mental Skills such as Mental Imagery and Self-Talk
-Swimming without Confidence
-Not Being Able to Focus when it Matters Most
When Athletes Suffer and become Victim to one or multiple issues mentioned above...it becomes Incredibly Difficult for them to maintain a positive frame of mind not only in sports but in life in general. And unfortunately in society today all athletes are under the spot light as they are judged by many of their friends, family, and peers by the level of success they have in the pool, which makes it absolutely crucial for athletes to be mentally tough and resilient.
Thus, after completing our workbook athletes will undoubtedly be equipped with the Mental Tools to:
1. Develop Supreme Confidence in their Skills and Abilities to Flourish
2. Build Mental Toughness and Resilience to Overcome Obstacles
3. Learn to Handle Intense Pressure and Paralyzing Adversity
4. Conquer their Crippling Fears and Severe Anxiety
5. Be Mentally Ready to Compete and Dominate their Competition
6. Come Back from Injury Better and Stronger than Before
7. Be Overflowing with Motivation and Surpass their Athletic Goals
Whether youre a male or female athlete looking for ways to improve your skills and ability (middle school, high school, or collegiate skill level)A coach or trainer in search of avenues to improve your teams performanceor a parent trying to help your son or daughter accomplish their goals and dreamsTHIS IS THE WORKBOOK YOU'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR!
Choking Under Pressure During Crucial Moments of a Competition, Sitting on the Sidelines Meet after Meet despite All your Hard Work and Effort, Becoming accustomed to Losing Over and Over, not Stepping Up when the team Needs it Most, and being Unable to see any Progress toward Improving and Reaching Success can be EXTEMELY PAINFUL, DISAPPOINTING, and DISCOURAGING. This STOPS TODAY! Fulfill your Potential, and Finally Perform Great the way you've Always Envisioned.
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