Mental Training for Peak Performance

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Mental Training for Peak Performance teaches you that
SWEAT ISN'T ENOUGH
"To play well, you have to ieam to channel the emotions, both the highs
and the very lows."
—Pete Sampras
number one-ranked tennis player in 1994
"K you haven't done your mental homework in training, you don't have anything to fall back on when you race."
—Margaret Groos
1988 Olympic marathoner
"K you can expect the unexpected, you can emotionally lick anyone."
—Benjl Durden
1980 Olympic Marathon Team
Before you can win on/the/track, court, links or slopes, you have to win in your head. Now, a top sports !Psychologist reveals the mental strategies champion athletes use to excel in a variety of sports, from cycling to downhill skiing, marathon running to mountain biking, golf to tennis.
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Includes strategies used by:
• Mark Plaatjes, 1993 world marathon champ
• Rebecca Twi|S, winner of the 1993 World Cycling Championship
• Picabo Street, 1994 Olympic silver-medal skier
• Chuck Hogan,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Mental Training for Peak Performance teaches you that
SWEAT ISN'T ENOUGH
"To play well, you have to ieam to channel the emotions, both the highs
and the very lows."
—Pete Sampras
number one-ranked tennis player in 1994
"K you haven't done your mental homework in training, you don't have anything to fall back on when you race."
—Margaret Groos
1988 Olympic marathoner
"K you can expect the unexpected, you can emotionally lick anyone."
—Benjl Durden
1980 Olympic Marathon Team
Before you can win on/the/track, court, links or slopes, you have to win in your head. Now, a top sports !Psychologist reveals the mental strategies champion athletes use to excel in a variety of sports, from cycling to downhill skiing, marathon running to mountain biking, golf to tennis.
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Includes strategies used by:
• Mark Plaatjes, 1993 world marathon champ
• Rebecca Twi|S, winner of the 1993 World Cycling Championship
• Picabo Street, 1994 Olympic silver-medal skier
• Chuck Hogan, professional golfer and coach to Peter Jacobson, Johnny Miller, Ray Floyd, Mike Reid and Duffy Waldorf
• Janet Evans, ifour-time gold-medal Olympic swimmer
• Mike Pigg, number two-ranked triathlete in the world
Mental Training for Peak Performance recounts the personal experiences of atliletes
who have used mental training to achieve their great successes. It really works!" —Bob Mathias, executive director of the National Fitness Foundation, Fresno, California
"A must-read for any athlete who wants to maximize the possibilities of performance." —Donna Lopriano, president of the Women's Sport Foundation, East Meadow, New York
About the Author
Steven Ungerleider, Ph.D., is a psychologist at Integrated Research Services in Eugene, Oregon. Since 1984 he has served on the U.S. Olympic Committee Sports Psychology Registry. He is the author of t^st for Success and co-author of Beyond Strength.
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