Sports Psychology category: 506 books
Opus
Manuale di automotivazione
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Per raggiungere uno scopo la nostra risorsa più grande è l'automotivazione. Ecco come allenarla.
Diversamente da gran parte della motivazione animale che si è evoluta per soddisfare bisogni semplici in tempi brevi, la motivazione umana insegue mete sfidanti e che richiedono tempi lunghi...
by Bob Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The highly acclaimed SportExcel system is a revolutionary way to win, and it is changing the way clay-target shooters approach their game in North America and around the globe. With Bob Palmer’s easy-to-read and easy-to-understand, step-by-step system, you learn to see the target as huge, to eliminate...
by Shane M. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2004
Athletes’ physiques and conditioning levels have advanced significantly in the past decade. Now, it’s time for their mental prowess to catch up. The Sport Psych Handbook makes significant performance improvement possible through training the mind to parallel the body’s enhanced development....
Growth Mindset for Athletes, Coaches and Trainers
Harness the Revolutionary New Psychology for Achieving Peak Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
A complete and easy-to-follow guide for inspiring every athlete with the proven power of growth mindset
Whether you’re a coach, trainer or athlete, growth mindset has changed the game. It’s helping everyone from little leaguers to professionals reach their full potential. The perfect complement...
by Barbara Teetor Waite, John A. Pfitsch
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
John Pfitsch (1919-2012,) coach at Grinnell College for 50 years, and Barbara Waite, former chair of the Sport Psychology Program at The University of Iowa, square off to scrutinize theories and philosophies behind 100% performance, Coach Pfitsch’s term for the best his student-athletes had to offer....
Skill Acquisition in Sport
Research, Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Success in sport depends upon the athlete's ability to develop and perfect a specific set of perceptual, cognitive and motor skills. Now in a fully revised and updated new edition, Skill Acquisition in Sport examines how we learn such skills and, in particular, considers the crucial role of practice...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
As sport has become more intense, professional and commercialized so have the debates grown about what constitutes acceptable behaviour and fair play, and how to encourage and develop ‘good’ sporting behaviour, particularly in children and young people. This book explores the nature and function...
Sexual Abuse in Sport
A Qualitative Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This book is about sexual abuse in sport, and specifically about one girl’s experience of long-term chronic abuse in sport. A ‘non-conventional’ approach is employed to explore the experiences of a female athlete named Bella who was groomed, sexually abused by her male coach, and then subjected...
by Vincenzo Amendolagine
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 7, 2015
La monografia affronta alcuni temi della psicologia clinica dello sport con l’obiettivo di delineare, in maniera semplice, le tecniche psicologiche necessarie per potenziare le performance sportive. Talune delle metodiche descritte possono essere utilizzate nella vita di ogni giorno per migliorare...
NUOTARE GIOCANDO VOL.4
La senso-percezione acquatica
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 13, 2013
La percezione del proprio corpo in acqua è il concetto principale su cui si basano contenuti, giochi ed esercizi adatti sia alla scuola nuoto che ad un progetto scolastico di educazione motoria acquatica presentati in questo testo. La sperimentazione delle leggi meccaniche legate al galleggiamento,...
NUOTARE GIOCANDO VOL.5
La didattica nell'apprendimento delle partenze e delle virate di base nella scuola nuoto
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 13, 2013
L'atto della partenza è l'elemento fondamentale delle performance natatoria: il perfezionamento di questo esercizio consente di migliorare la qualità della nuotata, elevando il livello complessivo della prestazione. Anche la virata, che si caratterizza con movimenti in apparenza molto...
Finding Your Zone
Ten Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
The first research-based program to offer concise, clear ways to realize your best performance.
As a therapist, physician, and mental coach, Dr. Michael Lardon has dedicated his career to helping athletes understand and better achieve peak performance. In Finding Your Zone, he shares with readers...
The Grind
Inside Baseball's Endless Season
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Built on material that appeared in The Washington Post, this is a raw, inside look at the wear and tear and the glory and impermanence of baseball—shortlisted for the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing.
At 162 games, it is the sports world’s longest season. Grueling. Thrilling....
The Last Pick
The Boston Marathon Race Director's Road to Success
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
"If you can dream it, it can happen."
In this heartening book, Boston Marathon race director and motivational speaker David McGillivray shares the challenges he has overcome to inspire readers to similar triumphs in their own lives.
Always the last pick for team sports because...