The Champion's Mind

Author: Jim Afremow
Publisher: Rodale Books
ISBN: 1623361494
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
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.

A Champion's Mind

Author: Pete Sampras
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 030738330X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
In A Champion’s Mind, the tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people “inside his head” finally opens up. An athletic prodigy, Pete resolved from his earliest playing days never to let anything get in the way of his love for the game. But while this determination led to tennis domination, success didn’t come without a price. Here for the first time Pete speaks freely about the personal trials he faced—including the death of a longtime coach and confidant—and the struggles he gutted his way through while being seemingly on top of the world. Among the book’s most riveting scenes are the devastating early loss that led Pete to make a monastic commitment to the game; fierce on-court battles with Andre Agassi; and the triumphant last match of Pete’s career at the finals of the 2002 U.S. Open. "A thoroughly compelling read that really probes the hard drive of a champion...All the emotion and insight that Sampras seemes reluctant to express during his playing days come spilling forth." —Jon Wertheim, senior writer, Sports Illustrated

The Champion Mindset

Author: Joanna Zeiger
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250096715
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
An in-depth mental motivational book for all athletes from Olympian Dr. Joanna Zeiger that offers game-changing strategies for programming your brain to achieve physical excellence. Champions, as the familiar adage preaches, are not born—they're made. Reaching the top of any sport, or any aspect of life, takes years upon years of dedication and proper preparation. But if there's a huge pool of individuals who have undertaken the same commitment and steps towards becoming the best, what truly separates the winners from everyone else? Joanna Zeiger believes proper mental preparation is the answer. The Champion Mindset is a much-needed and long overdue look into how to program a competitor's mind to achieve optimal success. Changing behaviors and ways of thinking are never easy, but the chapters in this book aim to simplify this process to make it manageable and achievable. This book is for every athlete—from the weekend warrior, who wants to complete in his or her first 5k running race, to those who have aspirations of one day becoming Olympians and world champions. The Champion Mindset is a compendium of Zeiger's own personal journey from struggling novice swimmer to Olympian and World Champion. Through steps including: Proper Goal Setting, Keeping it Fun, Building Your Team, Intention in Training, Improving Motivation, Promoting Self-Confidence, and Mind/Body Cohesion, among others, Zeiger uses her decades of personal experience, doctoral-level research, and professional success, to prepare readers to go all-in with their mental game.

How Champions Think

Author: Bob Rotella
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476788642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
A "guide to success in all aspects of life-- not just sports-- from business to relationships to personal challenges of every variety"--Amazon.com.

The Leader's Mind

Author: Jim Afremow, PhD
Publisher: HarperCollins Leadership
ISBN: 1400225760
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Clear and concise steps to develop the confidence and mental edge that sets you apart as a trailblazing leader—the same approach thousands of professional athletes have used to become champions. The Leader's Mind taps into the same tips and techniques honed by top-tier athletes, such as how to get in a "zone," thrive on a team, and stay humble, to become a champion at work and the ultimate team player at home. Based on high-performance psychology research and Dr. Jim Afremow’s two decades of experience providing mental training services across the globe to athletes and business leaders, The Leader's Mind will help you master: Valuable leadership lessons through powerful parables and stories from well-known leaders. The actionable steps leaders must take to change their thinking and become the leader they want to be. The necessary mindset to push through the challenges you face and take control of your career and home life. Tips and techniques to excel and overcome seemingly insurmountable odds and challenges. Stop struggling with the expectations you face at work and at home by fundamentally changing the way you process what’s happening in your life. The mental edge that sets elite athletes apart outlined in this book will help you become the champion leader you want to be.

Mental Toughness

Author: Katherine Muncaster
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1398354422
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Help children to develop strong resilience, positive self-esteem and confidence with a whole-school approach, including an evidence-based theoretical framework for practical activities, and guidance on how to measure the impact of interventions over time. Includes: · An overview of the mental toughness model: providing a strong theoretical underpinning for the practical activities. · Guidance on using psychometrics with young people: showing how questionnaires can be used to design an intervention and measure impact. · Practical classroom activities for Reception to Year 6, organised into teaching sessions. · Accompanying downloadable and editable slides to help teach each session, and an example video lesson for each year group.

Champions of Illusion

Author: Susana Martinez-Conde
Publisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374120404
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
A collection of visual illusions with explanations of the science behind them, gathered from the Best Illusions of the Year contest. --

Champion Mind Unbeatable Athlete

Author: Darrin Wiggins
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507739860
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 118

Book Description
Champion Mind Unbeatable Athlete So what separates the champions from the rest of the pack? Why do some underdog athletes topple the best in their sport almost daily? Is there a secret training method some of us don't know about it? There is only one tool that creates a champion truly and that is your mindset. You either choose to do what it takes physically and mentally every day to be a champion or you don't. Stop focusing on what others are doing and take a look at what you are not doing. Discover How To Become Elite This book is not full of complicated mental exercises or loaded with extravagant case studies. There is no need for all that if you haven't even mentally decided that you want to be a champion. Without that internal drive to wake up and do what it takes day in and day out regardless of how tough it may seem, you will not succeed. No matter how much raw athletic ability or God given talent you may seem to have, you can still have your butt handed to you by someone less “superior” any day of the week if they have a stronger desire to win. What you will discover inside are the tried and tested methods that champions have used forever. Do not get distracted by fancy talk and the latest technology. These champions did not have access to a tenth of what an athlete does today and yet their records still stand in many sports. An athlete's goals always seem to be focused on physical performance but what is discussed inside is improving mental performance. Mental training is becoming as important as physcial training and in some cases is the difference between winning and losing. Champion athletes have a mental toughness about them that is envied by their competitors. You become physcally strong by being mentally tough. The only difference between you and them is they mentally choose to be a champion. Master The Mental Art Of Being Elite There is a pile of work to do in order to be unbeatable and even that in itself is a false sense of security because you will be beaten someday. Beaten but not defeated. Do not look at being unbeatable as wins and losses but as an internal battle that determines whether you will rise to the occasion after being defeated, when the chips are down or you darn well don't feel like moving that day. Here is what you will discover inside in order to be the person you need to be to become a champion: Why perseverance will beat potential every day of the week Why you might be in the wrong sport entirely and yes it could be your parent's fault How visualization is often the difference between excellence and mediocre performances How to clear your mind and be in the moment And much more... Who you think you are determines what you can achieve, every time without fail. “Champion Mind Unbeatable Athlete” does away with sugar coating what is needed to be a champion and gets to the heart of it. Champions are not born; they are created from the inside out and then delivered on the field. Would You Like To Know More? Purchase today now and start being the champion you were born to be. Scroll to the top of the page and select the buy button.

Mind Gym

Author: Gary Mack
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071504648
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Praise for Mind Gym "Believing in yourself is paramount to success for any athlete. Gary's lessons and David's writing provide examples of the importance of the mental game." --Ben Crenshaw, two-time Masters champion and former Ryder Cup captain "Mind Gym hits a home run. If you want to build mental muscle for the major leagues, read this book." --Ken Griffey Jr., Major League Baseball MVP "I read Mind Gym on my way to the Sydney Olympics and really got a lot out of it. Gary has important lessons to teach, and you'll find the exercises fun and beneficial." --Jason Kidd, NBA All-Star and Olympic gold-medal winner In Mind Gym, noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so. Through forty accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes from prominent athletes--many of whom he has worked with--you will learn the same techniques and exercises Mack uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." Mind Gym will give you the "head edge" over the competition.

With Winning in Mind

Author: Lanny R. Bassham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780709093787
Category : Success
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Be wary of the people no one wants on their team, the ones who are too small, too slow and not very capable. The unwanted have a built-in motivation to do whatever it takes to succeed that those who were picked first do not have. This is the story of such a person and what he did to find his place at the top of the world in his sport.