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Gifted
Embrace your innate talents and abilities to become the best version of yourself. Gifted: 8 Steps to Succeeding in Sport, Work, and Life offers eight valuable lessons to guide you onto the life path you deserve.
The Mental Edge in Boxing
Within this book, Dr Robert Schinke shares with the reader, how to mentally sharpen aspects of boxing performance. Regardless of whether you are a boxer, coach, or a member of a developing or elite boxer's support system, you will find this book to be informative and extremely practical. The topics featured as part of this book include how to train effectively, how to develop athlete self-confidence and mental toughness, how to profile an opponent, and how to carry out a detailed plan from the moment you have identified your opponent through to success and beyond. Read this book and see for yourself how to be even more systematic in terms of the mental edge of boxing performance. This book is a must read for boxing enthusiasts, and also those immersed in combative sports such as mixed martial arts, kickboxing, Thai boxing, karate and jujitsu.
Case Studies in Sport Development
Sport is more than competition and the opportunity to become physically fit. Sport and physical activity offer opportunities for people and communities to forge improved relations. Case Studies in Sport Development: Contemporary Stories Promoting Health, Peace, and Social Justice reveals how experiences from across our global community have served as the conduit to harmony within and among people. Internationally renowned co-editors Robert J Schinke and Ronnie Lidor have structured this compilation into three key sections: Remedying Marginalization; Health & Well-Being; Sport for Peace & Social Justice. The international collection of contributing authors to this book speak from the heart about personal yet widely applicable sport and physical activity experiences. These cases provide the reader with hope that sport and physical activity can provide answers to many of todays and tomorrows societal challenges within people and communities, and among countries, races, and religions.
Mental Health in Sport and Physical Activity
Bringing together the most prestigious writings on mental health in sport and physical activity from the International Society of Sport Psychology’s flagship journal, International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, this volume provides an essential reference for the field of sport and exercise psychology. Carefully selected for their popularity and impact on the field, the chapters in this volume feature an international range of contributions. Each chapter has been closely updated to ensure its relevance in current research and maintain its position as a piece of state-of-the-art scholarship. Chapters cover a range of topics, including the mental health of high-performance athlete...
The Champion in You
From this book, the reader, much like the world championship boxer, will exceed their potential and become a performer to contend with. The skills you gain from this book will formalise you as a championship performer with a systematic approach for battle preparation and delivery. Each chapter is authored as a condensed instalment with summary points. This book is written for professionals striving to perform in the workplace. The metaphors and lessons borrowed from the elite boxing world are provided to the reader in an easily accessible series of steps.
Dictionary of Sport Psychology
Dictionary of Sport Psychology: Sport, Exercise, and Performing Arts is a comprehensive reference with hundreds of concise entries across sports, martial arts, exercise and fitness, performing arts and cultural sport psychology. This dictionary uses a global approach to cover philosophical and cultural backgrounds, theory, methodology, education and training and fields of application. Each entry includes phenomenon, subject description and definition, related theory and research, practice and application across sports and related performance domains. An authoritative, balanced and accessible presentation of the state-of-the-art in key subject areas, this dictionary is a must-have reference for anyone studying or practicing sport psychology. - Provides a diverse cultural perspective to ensure the broadest coverage of internationalization - Covers a broad scope of terms and concepts - Includes extended performance domains, such as music, dance, theater arts and the circus - Utilizes an alphabetical approach so entries are easily found and quickly referenced - Contains entries written by leading researchers and scholars across the globe
Advancements in Mental Skills Training
Advancements in Mental Skills Training presents contemporary evidence-based intervention approaches from leading sport psychology researchers and practitioners. The book comprehensively examines the use of mental skills training for athletic performance and well-being from a cross-cultural perspective. It begins by introducing theoretical advancements related to mental toughness, cultural factors, performance optimisation and mindfulness. It goes on to examine the technological advancements related to mental skills training, outlining how mobile technologies can be used to measure and train perceptual-cognitive skills, and the effectiveness of virtual reality in mental training. The book con...
Mental Health in Elite Sport
Mental Health in Elite Sport: Applied Perspectives from Across the Globe provides a focused, exhaustive overview of up-to-date mental health research, models, and approaches in elite sport to provide researchers, practitioners, coaches, and students with contemporary knowledge and strategies to address mental health in elite sport across a variety of contexts. Mental Health in Elite Sport is divided into two main parts. The first part focuses globally on mental health service provision structures and cases specific to different world regions and countries. The second part focuses on specific mental health interventions across countries but also illustrates specific case studies and intervent...
Cultural Sport Psychology
Cultural Sport Psychology is the first full text to focus entirely on cultural awareness, and its timeliness will undeniably spark increased discussion, reflection, and research of cultural considerations in sport psychology practice.
The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Sport and Exercise Psychology
The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Sport and Exercise Psychology integrates the topics of motor control, physical education, exercise, adventure, performance in sports, and the performing arts, in several important ways and contexts, drawing upon diverse cultural perspectives. More than 90 overarching topics have been systematically developed by internationally renowned experts in theory, research, and practice. Each contribution delves into a thematic area with more nuanced vocabulary. The terminology drawn upon integrates traditional discourse and emerging topic matter into a state-of-the-art two-volume set. Volume 1: Theoretical and Methodological Concepts is comprised of theoret...
