Product Description: Psychische Faktoren wie Konzentration oder Motivation sind entscheidend für die Realisierung sportlicher (Höchst-)Leistung. Ihre Optimierung ist jedoch häufig nicht Teil des sportlichen Trainings. Eine Ursache hierfür stellt der Mangel an diagnostischen Instrumenten im Sport dar...read more

Product Description: We had our first conversation about cognition, metacognition, and reading in September of 1976. Our particular concern was with reading and learning to read, and what, if anything, meta cognition might have to do with it all. We didn't really know much about metacognition then, of course, but then most other people were in the same predicament...read more

Product Description: The emotional highs and lows of competitive sport, whether experienced as a competitor, spectator or coach may be the essential ingredient that gives sport its universal and compelling appeal. Emotion is clearly a pervasive force within competitive sport, and this is reflected in the burgeoning interest over recent decades in athletes’ emotions and strategies for coping with these emotions...read more

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Product Description: Fuel your performance, and life, with the clarity of Stillpower For years, athletes, coaches, parents, and organizations have search for the secrets to optimum mental performance. Today, however, in spite of a myriad of tools, techniques, and theoretical models, consistent success and contentment are as elusive as ever...read more

Training Professionals in the Practice of Sport Psychology provides a detailed look at all facets of the education process from training requirements to certification to developing a mental training program. Intended for those seeking to become sport psychology professionals, and unlike any other counseling text, this book supplies the student with the information, tools, and essential steps needed to become a fully certified sport psychologist.

Product Description: Overtraining Athletes: Personal Journeys in Sport seeks to communicate the complex subject of overtraining to help athletes, coaches, parents, and sport science professionals understand the dangers of overtraining and take steps toward prevention...read more

"’Lance hates losing, but is not afraid of it.’" This fearless approach gave Lance the freedom to take the risks required to achieve peak performance and to continue to seek improvement even while at the top of his sport." --from How Lance Does It What is the secret to someone like Lance Armstrong’s consistent and phenomenal success? Is it something you’re born with, or is it something that can be acquired, developed, and perfected? Author Brad Kearns observes four success factors in Armstrong that can provide inspiration and direction to help you live like a champion every day. No magic tricks, silly acronyms, mind games, or gimmicks. How Lance Does It captures the pure essence of Armstrong from every angle, including the secrets for harnessing your own inner strength in every challenge you face, from business to parenting to stress management. "Brad Kearns has a refreshing perspective on peak performance that he captures eloquently in his writing. While being intensely competitive and focused on winning is great, Kearns reminds us that our greatest rewards come when we are motivated by pure love of the experience." --Lance Armstrong

Product Description: Jared Quillian is penetrating the superpowers' defense systems. He has the computer capability to access U.S. and Soviet military cybernetics--as well as the systems at Stony Man. As Quillian sets into motion the final stages of his horrifying bid for power, America has one chance to strike--win or lose--as the rest of the world watches and waits...read more

Product Description: Sport Psychology, 2nd Edition provides a synthesis of the major topics in sport psychology with an applied focus and an emphasis on achieving optimal performance. After exploring the history of sport psychology, human motivation, and the role of exercise, there are three main sections to the text: Performance Enhancement, Performance Inhibition, and Individuals and Teams...read more

Product Description: This step-by-step training program contains the latest on mind-body performance to help you achieve major breakthroughs in sports, business, health, and life. Hundreds of practical tools and tips on focusing, building confidence, handling slumps, and overcoming performance anxiety...read more

Product Description: In the dynamic world of athletic training, it is important for students and clinicians to be comfortable and capable of dealing with the mental, sociocultural, emotional, and physical behaviors of their clients. The Athletic Trainer’s Guide to Psychosocial Intervention and Referral is the perfect guide to assist athletic training educators and practicing clinicians with the necessary knowledge and skills to manage psychosocial issues in athletic training...read more

Self-belief, known as 'self-efficacy' by sports psychologists is believed to be an essential component of sporting success. This book examines the nature of efficacy as it applies to sporting behaviour in coaches, athletes and teams. It provides readers with a basic background of research on the topic, offers research-tested guidelines, and more.

Sport Psychology is an introductory account of the major psychological issues in sport today. Major theories and up-to-date research are covered in the areas of personality, attitudes to sport, aggression in sport, anxiety and stress, social influences, motivation, and skill acquisition. A wide variety of sporting examples are used, ranging from football to ballet.

This new edition provides students with a solid foundation in the concepts of sport and exercise psychology and their application in exercise and sport settings. New texts now come packaged with "PowerWeb: Health & Human Performance"!

Product Description: Sports are full of ups and downs. But the best athletes and teams are mentally tough and bounce back quickly after an off day. In Sports Slump Busting, Dr. Alan Goldberg presents a 10-step program that’s benefited hundreds of coaches, slumping athletes and teams in a wide variety of sports, at every level of competition...read more

Product Description: Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis More than twenty years into the global AIDS pandemic, the efforts of Christian congregations and denominations have been less than minimal. This book is aimed to awaken Christian compassion in the coming years to this fathomless tragedy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Presents a mind-body training program that helps readers achieve success in sports, health, and everyday life, covering such topics as focusing, handling slumps, and overcoming performance anxiety.

Product Description: An athlete's guide to becoming as tough as nails, the Army way In this hard-hitting, no-nonsense guide, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Bender offers athletes the proven mental-training techniques developed by the military to prepare warriors for battle...read more