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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Sports training & coaching > Sports psychology
Elite sport can be an unforgiving and harsh environment. This book
explores psychological predictors of wellbeing and performance
excellence in elite level athletes, and presents an innovative
approach for optimizing mental wellbeing and sporting performance.
Jointly developed by performance psychologists, clinical
psychologists and sport scientists the Flexible Mind approach draws
on contemporary psychological theory and research to help athletes
build 'psychological flexibility' - the ability to experience
challenging thoughts and emotions and still be true to one's
values. A range of case studies relating to different sports are
used to demonstrate how three core components - Being Present,
Being Open and Doing What Matters - can improve athletes'
performance and wellbeing. This book will be a game-changing
resource for sports psychologists, mental health practitioners,
coaches and support staff who are committed to helping athletes to
excel and stay well.
Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen reichhaltig illustrierten und
kompakten UEberblick uber die kausalen Zusammenhange, die bei
Bewegungsablaufen im Sport auftreten. Sie erlernen damit die
Grundkenntnisse im Fach Biomechanik wie auch die wesentlichen
biomechanischen Messverfahren und Methoden zur Datenerhebung und
Datenauswertung. Dazu erhalten Sie einen umfassenden Einblick in
die Strukturen sportlicher Bewegungen. Dabei steht ersten Bandes
die Anwendung biomechanischer Analysen in der Leichtathletik im
Mittelpunkt. Didaktisch ausgereift werden Ihnen anhand originaler
Datenbeispiele von aktuellen Spitzenathleten die Moeglichkeiten,
die biomechanische Analysen zur Bewertung und Optimierung der
sportlichen Technik bieten, anschaulich und gut verstandlich
erklart. So koennen Sie sich optimal auf die Prufung vorbereiten,
dazulernen, nachschlagen oder sich einen Ein- und UEberblick
verschaffen. Dazu bietet eine Begleitwebseite
Online-Zusatzmaterialien zur weiteren Veranschaulichung und
Vertiefung. Zielgruppen: Studierende des Faches Sportwissenschaft
(Lehramt, Bachelor und Master), besonders geeignet zum Studium und
als Prufungslekture des Kernfaches Bewegungswissenschaft. Ebenso
werden Athleten, Trainer und Leistungsdiagnostiker im
leistungsorientierten Sport von diesem Werk profitieren. Das Buch
bietet auch eine optimale und kompakte Wissenssammlung fur
Sportlehrer der gymnasialen Oberstufe (speziell fur Neigungsfacher
und Leistungskurse). Der Autor: Prof. Dr. Veit Wank ist Professor
fur Sportwissenschaft und Leiter des Lehrstuhls fur Biomechanik,
Bewegungs- und Trainingswissenschaft an der Eberhard Karls
Universitat Tubingen. Seit 2007 ist er Sprecher der Sektion
Biomechanik der Deutschen Vereinigung fur Sportwissenschaft (DVS).
Nach Studien der Sportwissenschaft, Biologie und Physik an der
Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena arbeitete er als
wissenschaftlicher Assistent und in verschiedenen Sportarten als
Praxisausbilder an den Universitaten Jena und Karlsruhe. Er war
selbst uber viele Jahre aktiver Leichtathlet.
Features interviews with Graeme Fowler (England cricketer), Nigel
Owens (Welsh International Rugby Union referee), Baroness Tanni
Grey-Thompson (Paralympian), Kieren Emery (GB lightweight rower),
Mark Enright (jockey), Michelle Bergstrand (British cyclo-cross
champion), Luke Stoltman (five-times Scotland's Strongest Man),
Jack Rutter (Paralympian and England cerebral palsy football
captain), and Ruth Walczak (GB Lightweight Rower). The demands of
the high-performance athlete are huge, with many celebrated for
their achievements, and put on a pedestal for admired personality
traits such as discipline, sacrifice, commitment, and focus. This
book seeks to explore the celebrated traits of the high-performance
athlete and, by doing so, to increase awareness of the
vulnerability that such traits also present. Through discussion
with professional sports people and presentation of their own
personal stories the book explores obsessionality, masochism, and
focus, and how these characteristics can enhance performance on the
field yet hinder life off it and may even develop into clinically
diagnosable mental health difficulties. In psychology, assessments
are based on statistical phenomena; the title Skewed to the Right
is based on the 'bell curve' that is shown through a graph whereby
the majority sit in the middle with a few clusters at either on of
the extremes. The suggestion is that elite athletes are 'skewed to
the right' on a number of key traits that put them between the
'general' population and those with a clinical diagnosis. The book
opens with an exploration of weight-restricted sport and how making
weight is achieved through practices that become culturally
acceptable in the sporting world yet would be seen to be classified
as clinically diagnosable eating disorders in the medical world. It
then moves on to personality traits that help and hinder - those
skewed to the right: masochism, obsessionality, and focus. Part 3
looks at one trait skewed to the left - acceptance - that many
sportspeople struggle with. The book closes with a section
exploring points of vulnerability for all athletes and ends with a
look at where we can go from here. The aim of the book is to
increase social awareness of the reality of life for the successful
high-performance athlete and the challenging dynamics that exist in
sporting culture today. It will be of interest to psychologists,
psychotherapists, trainees, and anyone with an interest in sporting
culture.
The runners from Eisenhower High School have every justification to
fail. They're from low income families, many of whom are migrant
workers. With little time to devote to their passion, they give
everything they have to their quest for the Washington State High
School Cross Country Championship. Running to Glory is a
celebration of grit, perseverance, and the American Dream. It
follows the cross country team from Eisenhower High in Yakima,
Washington, through a tumultuous and challenging season with
excitement, suspense and pathos. Despite enormous economic
disadvantages, the Eisenhower runners compete with affluent schools
in the Seattle-Tacoma area, where parent involvement is strong and
funds are readily available. Their coach Phil English knows how his
runners feel. He grew up poor in rural Ireland in the 1960s during
The Troubles and emigrated to the U.S. for a college track
scholarship. Over 37 years coaching in Yakima, Coach English won 11
state titles, and sent more than 100 kids to college with
scholarships for running. Author Sam McManis crafts a compelling
narrative, which follows the team from summer workouts in the
blistering sun to the state championship meet in the bitter cold.
Readers will discover how these young men and women overcome their
environment or succumb to it-on the course and in the classroom.
We marvel at the steely nerves, acute concentration, and
flawless execution exhibited on the 18th green, at the free-throw
line, in the starting blocks, and on the balance beam. While
state-of-the-art training regimens have extended athletes' physical
boundaries, more and more coaches are realizing the importance of
sport psychology in taking athletic performance to new levels.
Tomorrow's record-breaking accomplishments will not be the result
of athletes' training harder physically, but of athletes' training
smarter mentally.
"Sport Psychology for Coaches" provides information that coaches
need to help athletes build mental toughness and achieve
excellence--in sport and in life. As a coach, you'll gain a
big-picture perspective on the mental side of sport by examining
how athletes act, think, and feel when they practice and compete.
You'll learn to use such mental tools as goal setting, imagery,
relaxation, energization, and self-talk to help your athletes build
mental training programs. You'll also see how assisting your
athletes in developing mental skills such as motivation, energy
management, focus, stress management, and self-confidence leads to
increased enjoyment, improved life skills, and enhanced
performance. And you'll discover how to put it all together into
mental plans and mental skills training programs that allow your
athletes to attain and maintain a mind-set that fosters peak
performance.
The easy-to-follow format of the text includes learning
objectives that introduce each chapter, sidebars illustrating
sport-specific applications of key concepts and principles, chapter
summaries organized by content and sequence, key terms, chapter
review questions, a comprehensive glossary, and other useful
resources to help readers implement mental training programs for
athletes.
Written primarily for high school coaches, "Sport Psychology for
Coaches" is a practical, easy-to-use resource reflecting the two
authors' combined 45 years of teaching, coaching, researching, and
consulting experience. It reflects principles that are not only
consistent with the latest theory and research, but have stood the
test of time and worked for coaches and athletes in all sports at
all levels. You'll come away from "Sport Psychology for Coaches"
with a greater understanding and appreciation for sport psychology
and the practical knowledge you need to put it to work for you and
your athletes.
"Sport Psychology for Coaches" serves as the text for the
American Sport Education Program Silver Level course, Sport
Psychology for Coaches.
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