Elevate Your Excellence The Mindset And Methods Of Champions [Paperback]

Sport Psychology 101 is designed to educate practitioners, parents or physically active individuals with the foundational knowledge and tools that enhance mental functioning to optimize sports performance and health. Coaches, athletes, fitness fanatics, athletic trainers, dieticians, doctors and physical education teachers to name a few, will learn the science, skills and solutions to understand the limiting beliefs, doubts and fears that is holding back ones potential. This book is about finding new ways to build confidence and resiliency to improve both performance and personal excellence. Each text chapter covers three main sections. 1. The beginning of each chapter is meant to educate. Readers will learn the concepts, theories and research behind mental skills training, such as motivation, goal setting and confidence. 2. After understanding a specific mental skill, the second section of the chapter gives readers tools to develop that skill. Readers will gain practical, palatable ways to implement a mental skill into their own life as well as help their athletes, clients or kids. 3. The third section focuses on reflection. At the end of each chapter, there are questions to help readers review and ingrain what theyve learned as well as take action steps in how to begin practicing these techniques to reach peak performance. Overall, this text gives you simple, strategic steps to skyrocket performance and health. Anyone interested in achieving their best in sports, exercise or life will benefit from this text.