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Bring Your "A" Game: A Young Athlete's Guide to Mental Toughness
Written by Jennifer L. Etnier, PhD
Narrated by Vanessa Daniels
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Mental training is just as important as physical training when it comes to success in sport. And like physical fitness, mental toughness is something that can be taught and learned. Yet many young athletes have not learned the psychological skills needed to develop their best game. This book was written specifically for young athletes interested in improving their performance and reaching their potential in sport.
Bring Your "A" Game introduces key strategies for mental training, such as goal setting, pre-performance routines, confidence building, and imagery. Each of the seventeen chapters focuses on a single mental skill and offers key points and exercises designed to reinforce the concepts. The book encourages athletes to incorporate these mental skills into their daily lives and practice sessions so that they become second nature during competition.
Whether used at home by student athletes or assigned by coaches as part of team development, Bring Your "A" Game will help young performers develop a plan for success and learn to deal with the challenges of pursuing excellence in sport.
Bring Your "A" Game introduces key strategies for mental training, such as goal setting, pre-performance routines, confidence building, and imagery. Each of the seventeen chapters focuses on a single mental skill and offers key points and exercises designed to reinforce the concepts. The book encourages athletes to incorporate these mental skills into their daily lives and practice sessions so that they become second nature during competition.
Whether used at home by student athletes or assigned by coaches as part of team development, Bring Your "A" Game will help young performers develop a plan for success and learn to deal with the challenges of pursuing excellence in sport.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pretty good book. The author gives a lot of example to make every point more understandable. Still I was expecting more depth in some topics she covers. For example, I believe that several things such as "installing a mental routine pre competition" is a little too vague from my point of view. In a sense I can understand that she wants the reader to think for him/herself what works best for him but I also believe that she could be more "directive" in her suggestions.
In any case, i have enjoyed the book - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A guide for young athlete's about how to improve mental toughness in order to meet goals to work toward becoming successful on and off the playing field. Written as a self-help guide with interactive activities at the end of each chapter, this book speaks directly to the reader. The illustrations don't really match the tone of the book. I found that some of the goal setting exercises were quite helpful.