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Train Your Mind for Athletic Success: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals de Jim Taylor, PhD

Train Your Mind for Athletic Success: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals

Autor Jim Taylor, PhD
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 oct 2017

Găsim în Train Your Mind for Athletic Success contextul ideal pentru sportivul care a atins un platou fizic și realizează că diferența până la podium se joacă în plan psihologic. Într-o lume a sportului unde condiția fizică și tehnica sunt adesea egalate la nivel înalt, Dr. Jim Taylor demonstrează că pregătirea mentală este factorul de departajare, fie că vorbim despre tineri la început de drum sau despre olimpici. Autorul nu scrie doar din perspectiva cercetătorului, ci își ancorează recomandările în propria experiență de triatlonist Ironman și schior de performanță, oferind o validitate practică rară în literatura de specialitate.

Descoperim o structură riguroasă, organizată în jurul sistemului său original, „Prime Sport”. Cartea progresează logic de la atitudini fundamentale (precum asumarea și riscul) și obstacole (perfecționismul sau teama de eșec), până la „mușchii mentali” și instrumentele concrete, cum ar fi rutinele și controlul respirației. Abordarea amintește de On Top of Your Game de Carrie Cheadle prin accentul pus pe depășirea barierelor interne care sabotează performanța, dar Jim Taylor, PhD adaugă o metodologie mult mai detaliată de autoevaluare, incluzând teste rapide în fiecare capitol pentru ca cititorul să își poată măsura progresul în timp real.

Considerăm că acest volum completează armonios opera anterioară a autorului, în special The Triathlete's Guide to Mental Training, oferind însă o viziune universală, aplicabilă oricărei discipline. Nu este doar o expunere teoretică; prezența celor 29 de casete de text și a exercițiilor specifice transformă lectura într-un proces activ de antrenament, transformând concepte abstracte precum „reziliența” în practici zilnice cuantificabile.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781442277083
ISBN-10: 1442277084
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 9 b/w illustrations; 1 table; 29 textboxes
Dimensiuni: 154 x 232 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte oricărui sportiv, antrenor sau părinte care dorește să transforme potențialul fizic în rezultate concrete. Cititorul câștigă un sistem de antrenament mental aplicabil imediat, învățând cum să gestioneze presiunea competițiilor mari și cum să navigheze perioadele dificile de accidentare. Este un ghid esențial pentru a construi o mentalitate de învingător care servește nu doar în arenă, ci în toate aspectele vieții, prin dezvoltarea disciplinei și a încrederii în sine.

Descriere

Much too often, the mental aspect of sport performance is overlooked. While all top athletes are in outstanding physical condition and technically exceptional, mental preparation is often what separates the best from the rest. This is just as true for young athletes as it is for pros and Olympians. And even though relatively few athletes will ever reach the top of their sport, the attitudes and life lessons learned from mental training-such as motivation, confidence, focus, perseverance, and resilience-will serve them well in all aspects of their lives. In Train Your Mind for Athletic Success: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals, Dr. Jim Taylor uses his own elite athletic experience and decades of working with some of the world's best athletes to provide competitors of every ability with insights, practical exercises, and tools they can use to be mentally prepared when it really counts. His Prime Sport System explores the attitudes that lay the foundation for athletic success, the mental obstacles that can hold athletes back, the preparations they must take, the mental muscles they should strengthen, and the mental tools they need to fine tune their competitive performances. Most importantly, Dr. Taylor shows athletes practical strategies they can use to become mentally strong so they can perform their best when it matters most. Train Your Mind for Athletic Success goes well beyond the typical mental skills that are discussed in other mental training books. Readers will not only learn why mental preparation is so important to athletic success, but also where they personally are in each area thanks to brief mental assessments in each section of the book. In addition, each chapter includes exercises to show athletes how to incorporate mental training directly into their overall sport training regimen. The most comprehensive and in-depth book on mental preparation for athletes available, Train Your Mind for Athletic Success is an essential read for athletes, coaches, and parents.

Cuprins

Introduction: Athletic Success Begins and Ends with the Mind

Chapter I: PrimePsyche: Five Attitudes
Ownership
Process
Challenge
Long-term
Risk

Chapter II: PrimeHeart: Five Obstacles
Overinvestment
Perfectionism
Fear of Failure
Expectations
Negativity

Chapter III: PrimePrep: Five Approaches to Quality Training
Perspective
Train Like You Compete
Consistency
Experiment
Quality

Chapter IV: PrimeMind: Five Mental Muscles
Motivation
Confidence
Intensity
Focus
Mindset

Chapter V: PrimeTime: Five Tools
Emotions
Imagery
Routines
Breathing
Trust

Chapter VI: Prime Topics for Athletic Success
Preparing for the Big Competition
Slumps
Psychology of Injury

Chapter VII: Prime Sport: The Payoff
Seven Reasons Why Athletes Don't Do Mental Training
Three Goals for Athletic Success
Develop a Mental Training Program
Prime Sport Challenge

About the Author

Recenzii

In this intense and comprehensive guide to the mental component of physical exercise, Taylor, a psychologist who works with athletes, adopts the stance of a coach taking the reader through a workout. Peppered with exercises, the book encourages active participation, challenging fitness enthusiasts to identify and confront their mental weaknesses. Taylor offers upbeat catchphrases such as 'every day is a good day of training' and 'remove the word perfection from your vocabulary.' The goal is to achieve the performance level he calls 'prime sport,' which means competing 'consistently at a high level in the most challenging conditions.' Addressing the athlete's attitude toward sport, negative feelings, and fear of failure, Taylor poses questions to ask and answer before an athlete even sets foot in the gym. Once in the gym, Taylor writes, 'Train like you compete,' be positive whenever possible, and when things don't go well, 'use negative thinking positively.' Taylor has some unorthodox tips, telling readers, for instance, that smiling even when unhappy can help relax the mind and lower intensity. Even non-athletes should find value in Taylor's sage advice about applying oneself purposefully to challenging endeavors.
This book, authored by the very experienced and highly competent consultant, Jim Taylor, is a substantial contribution to the advancement of applied sport psychology, mental preparation, and training. In a manner that is practical as well as conceptually and technically sound, Jim describes his Prime Sport system which considers the athlete not only as a performer but also as a person. This system, which assists the athlete to strive for consistent high level performance under challenging circumstances, is a non-trivial advance in the applied professional literature. This is a book that is not conflated with rhetoric and general discourse. Rather, it is a necessary resource for athletes, sport psychologists, mental skills coaches, and other who want to deal with sport in the real world.
I have read many sport psychology books for athletes and it is very difficult to combine proven strategies with writing that speaks clearly to athletes, using their words and matching their experience. Dr. Taylor's book meets this challenge beautifully. Athletes who use the information and tools in Train Your Mind For Athletic Success can expect to be as mentally prepared as they can be to perform their best when it matters most.