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.

"Mental toughness is the natural or developed psychological edge that results from a collection of skills, attributes, values, emotions, and behaviors that allow people to overcome any obstacle, adversity, or pressure as well as deal with the general day-to-day demands (lifestyle, training, competition) placed upon them and still remain consistent, focused, confident, and motivated to achieve their goals."Fortitude is a guide for high performing athletes and business professionals on understanding mental toughness, how to build and sustain it over time. Kate Allgood built her business helping individuals like you learn what it takes to perform under pressure. In this book you'll discover: - What you need to know to build real and long lasting confidence- How to improve the ability to focus and refocus - The power of mindfulness- How to build motivation in yourself and others - And much, much, more! "Kate is a force in the sports business and with her new book she brings the best insight directly to your field of play." Jeremy M. Evans, Founder of and Managing Attorney at California Sports Lawyer(R) "If you want to step up your game, your business or just kill it in life, Fortitude is an easy to read guide to do it."- Majo Orellana - Pro Athlete, Coach and Entrepreneur

Do you feel overwhelmed when you are doing important things? Do you want to unleash your full potential? Do you want to develop the right mindset to accoplish all your goals? Mental Toughness holds a top-five slot on the most sought-after job skills. Employers want to hire people who can handle pressure and think outside the box. And while adding mental discipline to your list of skills will indeed make you more marketable, that is not all it's good for: it is also a skill that everyone needs in our daily lives. Surviving in the information age, with constant input from countless sources, can overwhelm and confuse people, but by finding the few hidden kernels of truth in the truckload of data that is our world today, an high performer can assess and process information to draw accurate conclusions. This book guides you through the components of Mental Toughness with practical exercises to learn each step. Make no mistake--you can learn how to use your mind. With some time, repetition, and effort, you too can become a super elite performer! Your colleagues, family, and friends will be amazed by your new abilities! These pages contain everything you need to get started on building your mental toughness expertise. Here is what you will learn if you follow the steps: * Learn what accurate thinking is and how to apply it; * Perform under pressure; * Get the low-down on logic with simple explanations and real-life examples; * Use self talk; * Strengthen you mind; * Overcome your emotions; * Put the pieces together using problem-solving models with step by step instructions; * Channel your inner Sherlock and hone your powers of observation and deduction; * Break through your mind's barriers with imagination and visualization exercises; * Hit the pause button with a guided meditation exclusively for the best performers. Would You Like To Know More? Scroll to the top of the page and select the 'buy button'. All the best Robert Parkes

Mental Toughness For Young Athletes is a book designed to help kids and teens find and strengthen their mental toughness mindset muscle. There are a lot of books out there for mental toughness for the adult mind, but not a lot for the developing mind. This book fills the gap. Filled with proven, easy to apply, 5-minute exercises, "Mental Toughness For Young Athletes" is a chronicling of an actual youth athlete's mental toughness journey. In the book he and his father talk about their mental toughness struggles and successes. They also give the exact mental toughness exercises that helped them down their path towards their success. If you have a young athlete who is struggling with finding and growing their mental toughness this book is for you. Real proven exercises with a young athlete's perspective. Experts are great, but having a kid's mindset and thought process included in a book about mental toughness for kids and teens is priceless.

The Triathlete's Guide to Mental Training, written by accomplished sport psychologists and Ironman triathletes, offer readers in-depth, practical information and skills they can use to build mental muscle. Triathlons are certainly physically demanding, to say the least, but most triathletes would agree that it is the mental aspect that can determine whether or not they achieve their competitive goals. Resources addressing this key aspect have been hard to come by -- until now. Readers will learn in this book first how to assess their psychological strengths and weaknesses, and then discover the six mental factors that most affect triathlon performance. The book includes essential tools for training and competition, such as routines, mental imagery, and tips on getting organized and setting goals, and also explores what it takes to be an Ironman, the unhealthy side of triathlon, and valuable lessons to be learned from the world's best triathletes.

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.

Mental toughness is about how effectively individuals deal with stress, pressure and challenge. It is rooted in the notion of resilience but moves beyond this by adding ideas from the world of positive psychology. The result is a complete process which is highly applicable and measurable. Tracing its development from sports psychology into business, health and education sectors, Developing Mental Toughness was the first book to look at applications at the organizational level and to provide a reliable psychometric measure. The new edition of Developing Mental Toughness includes greater coverage of how mental toughness relates to other behaviours and can be applied to leadership, creativity, emotional intelligence, and motivation. It also looks at its applications in employability and entrepreneurship, and has expanded coverage of coaching for mental toughness. Written for anyone coaching individuals and teams for improved performance, the book contains practical guidance and techniques, exercises and case studies, all reflecting the exciting developments in this field over the last five years.

Mental Toughness for Runners gives you highly effective methods for successful mental training, including self-coaching, well-founded training psychology, and thought-provoking strategies for self-reflection. Michele Ufer's successful mental training has been used in numerous coaching sessions and by endurance athletes throughout the world who have achieved significant and often dramatic achievements by improving their motivation, performance, and well-being with Ufer's training. Ufer also provides exercises supplemented with case studies from various coaching sessions. Delving into the science of mental training, you will understand the reasons behind certain training concepts, but always the focus remains on practicing and directly applying the methods to your training. You will be guided through a personal assessment of your training so that you may develop an individually tailored mental training plan which can then be integrated into everyday sports life. In this book, sports psychology expert Ufer uniquely presents his experiences and know-how from having coached numerous runners and other endurance athletes, researched psychological aspects in running, and presented on his findings at lectures, scientific congresses, and in magazine articles. Other runners share their success stories after using Ufer's mental training methods in this book. Every runner who reads this book is guaranteed to improve mental toughness and running performance!