Sports psychology Books

Psychological Aspects of Sport-Related Concussions is the first book to set out the psychological effects of the injury and the sport psychologist's role in concussion prevention and rehabilitation. It offers a global understanding and is crucial reading...

In practice settings, competitions, and games, athletes are often required to perform an arsenal of motor tasks in dynamic and challenged sporting environments, where they have to respond without having enough time to prepare themselves for the act...

Conflict for the win!Who knew the way to the championship was moving through conflict? It’s what most dread, and it’s the only way for teams to make it, to grow together, to become stronger—and to win.Bring out your inner social worker...

Cycle Psyched is a complete mental training program for cyclists. Dr. Saul L. Miller and Peggy Maass Labiuk present clear techniques and exercises for managing challenges and improving the psychological aspect of performance. Personal anecdotes and...

If you are one of the individuals that is seeking health and wellness on not just the physical level but the mental as well, you need to read "Mental Strength & Positive Attitude: 7 Core Lessons For Achieving Peak Performance In Life."

Warburton's Winning System transforms athletes into champions!Have you ever wanted a dependable way to completely clear upsetting performances out of your system? Have you ever stalled out with mental training because you weren't sure what to do? Are you...

This book offers a radical alternative to the cognitive and cognitive-behavioural approaches that have dominated sport psychology, and is the first to systematically apply existential psychological theory and phenomenological method to sport psychology. ...

Sports Betting Bible is a revolutionary platform that has redefined the way sports enthusiasts engage with their favorite games. Combining cutting-edge technology with a passion for all things sports, Sports Betting Bible offers a unique and immersive...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,9, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit geht es um Doping im Leistungssport. Zunächst werden die Definition und der Ursprung des...

Free Play: A Decade of Writings on Youth Sports is a collection of 70 columns and 6 blogs written around themes of play, learning, and the complexity of athlete, child, skill, and talent development for the parents of young athletes between 2007 and 2016...

Imagine you had your own sport psychologist to design a mental skills training program just for you. What if the program laid out exactly what you had to do to find "THE ZONE" and perform your best? What if it prepared you for the tough times by giving...

Contemporary sport psychology is a rapidly developing and theoretically rich discipline, and a sophisticated and challenging profession. The Routledge International Handbook of Sport Psychology offers a comprehensive and authoritative guide to...

This book is written from the perspective of a social psychologist. As a conse­ quence, the topics covered in the upcoming chapters were chosen from among those traditionally of interest to the discipline of social psychology...

Estudio Científico del año 2017 en eltema Salud - Deporte - Sociología deportiva, , Idioma: Español, Resumen: Temas centrales: La Ciencia en cambio y el cambio en la Ciencia, Ciencia y Deporte, el Deporte como objeto de estudio y sistema social...

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...

Climb the Soccer Pyramid with Soccer Drills and Tactics - 5 Books in 1 Soccer Coaching GuideBook 1: The Art of Finishing in Soccer"The Art of Finishing in Soccer" is the first book in this comprehensive coaching guide. It unravels the intricacies of...

Do you remember your last peak performance? Do you remember asking: how do I do this? How can I do it again? If you have asked this question, and want to know the answer, then this is the book you have been searching for.The Holy Grail of performance has...

Athletes are naturally exposed to significant psychological challenges in sports, but do not wait helplessly for the assistance of sports psychologists or trainers. Instead, they practise one form or another of self-regulation. Self-talk in Sport...

Sport psychology is a competitive profession with rigorous and demanding entry routes in terms of education, training and accreditation. Once qualified, the sport psychology practitioner will face complex, day-to-day professional challenges of the kind...

As the field of sport psychology has matured, so a greater appreciation for a diversity of training models, research methodologies, and therapeutic approaches, opposed to the dominant models of objective testing, has developed. The Athlete Apperception...

How can we use persuasion methods to make people more physically active and improve their sport and exercise experiences? How can instructors, coaches, athletes, and practitioners most effectively communicate their messages to others? Persuasion and...

Visualization skills, which are the power to form stable mental images in your mind, are used everywhere in highly competitive sports by top performing athletes. The best athletes practice their physical movements via mental rehearsal so that optimal...

Do you know who you are? Do you know what you want from life? Can you control and channel your thoughts, actions and feelings? This book will help you answer these questions. -All you need to know-terminology, lore, philosophy and motivation-to succeed...

'You speak bad of me, I score goals,'This was a famous line of soccer Italian bad boy, Mario Balotelli.There's two minutes to go. The scores are level. We must win. The chance falls, the goal is scored. Is there a greater thrill in the whole of sport? It...

The Applied Sport and Exercise Practitioner is designed to help all developing sport and exercise practitioners navigate the world of applied work. This book explores conceptual issues surrounding applied practice such as the identity and role of the...

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport. This comprehensive volume features cutting-edge research from around the world on issues that can compromise the welfare of athletes at all levels of sport and on the approaches taken by...

The football referee. Charged with controlling the players and enforcing the laws of the most popular and passionate game on the planet, they are often alone and always outnumbered. They ply their trade in the face of competitive athletes and a partisan...

Unleash your inner champion! This game-changing guide is your roadmap to unlocking peak performance in sports and life. Packed with proven strategies used by elite athletes, it will teach you how to conquer self-doubt, build unshakeable confidence, and...

Adventure-based training has become an effective medium for delivering experiential training programs within a variety of disciplines such as; school outdoor education, corporate teamwork development, youth at risk and psychological counseling. In...

High Performance Youth Swimming provides an in-depth view of the physiological, biomechanical, and multifaceted underpinning of swimming success, with a focus on youth. Considerations of both growth and maturation processes and the intricacies of the...

"Golf with Your Eyes Shut": A Bestselling Sensation, Now in English? Discover the groundbreaking book that captured the hearts of golfers across the Netherlands, "Golfen met je ogen dicht". Celebrated as a multiple-time bestseller and featured in...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Psychologie - Entwicklungspsychologie, Note: 2,3, Fliedner Fachhochschule Düsseldorf, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Bewegung ist eine grundlegende Voraussetzung des Lebens" (Stelli 2007). Damit Kinder sich...

Successful soccer coaches are constantly seeking new ways to learn, evolve, and improve.Very often, footballing success is defined by mindset, and the real winners are the coaches, players, and teams who enter the competitive arena best prepared mentally...

More and more people are realising that, as with all areas of life, your results in sport depend crucially on your ability to use your mind effectively. Certainly many elite sports performers say that the mental aspects of the sport make the difference...

This book presents first-time research findings and new empirically based perspectives and applications in sport psychology.Highly provocative data derived from the largest single study ever on athletes is used to advance an original model of peak...

Conflict for the win!Who knew the way to the championship was moving through conflict? It’s what most dread, and it’s the only way for teams to make it, to grow together, to become stronger—and to win.Bring out your inner social worker...

In this unique book on golf improvement, follow the fictional account of Chris Marriott, a 4-handicap golfer, as he plays a round of golf on the Jubilee Course at St Andrews - accompanied by a sport psychologist, James MacAndrew.As each hole presents its...

A primer on different approaches to coaching lacrosse with a particular focus on player- or athlete-centred coaching. Taylor guides readers through techniques like technical and self-reflection; behavioural, cognitive, and constructivist coaching...

This book examines sports psychology by focusing on issues related to athletes' mental state and improving their performances in the sports activities. It covers topics like anxiety, conflicts, overtraining, and sports injuries, includes strategies...

The Psychology of Sport Injury and Rehabilitation draws on the latest research in sport psychology and sports medicine. This new edition emphasizes the importance of a holistic, interprofessional approach to sport injury management and care.

Sport science can quantify many aspects of human performance but the spiritual dimensions of sports experience cannot be fully understood through measurement. However, the spiritual experience of sport - be it described as 'flow', 'transcendence' or the...

Meaning and Spirituality in Sport and Exercise examines the many forms of spirituality in sport from a psychological perspective, covering topics linking spirituality to athlete development, injury, exercise motivation, and ageing athletes, and...

This book offers contemporary, research informed information regarding the key psychological factors affecting golf development and performance under pressure. The text provides an accessible "real world" application of theory to practice, through the...