Boeken Sportpsycholoog

Changing Your Story

'Bill offers you an opportunity to grow your mind and think like a champion. I recommend it to you!' Adam Peaty ****** We all love stories. They make us feel, help us connect, relate to one another, and make sense of our lives. Bill Beswick is a storyteller who has 20 powerful life lessons to …

The Games People Play

In 'The Games People Play', Robert Ellis constructs a theology around the global cultural phenomenon of modern sport, paying particular attention to its British and American manifestations. Using historical narrative and social analysis to enter the debate on sport as religion, Ellis shows that modern sport may be said to have taken on some of …

Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

‘This book is AMAZING!’ – MALCOLM GLADWELL ‘If you want to gain insight into the mind of great athletes, adventurers, and peak performers then prepare to be enthralled by Alex Hutchinson’s Endure.’ – BEAR GRYLLS How high or far or fast can humans go? And what about individual potential: what defines a person’s limits? From …

How to Support a Champion

Bounce

From the author of You Are Awesome: Find Your Confidence and Dare to be Brilliant at (Almost) Anything Essential reading for an astounding summer of sport; If you’ve ever wondered what makes a champion, Bounce has the answer. BOUNCE JUST WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO GET TO THE TOP? What is the magic spark that …

Fuck Faalangst

Jan Huijbers (1948) is cultuuren godsdienstpsycholoog en sportpsycholoog. Als cultuurpsycholoog ziet hij hoe collectieve faalangst heeft geleid tot de resultaatstaat waarin wij nu leven. Achter ondoordringbare muren van bureaucratie met ontelbare regeltjes en procedures die alle zijn geboren uit wantrouwen, controleert deze draak zijn schat van nepgoud terwijl talenten ten onder gaan aan depressie en …

The Gladiator Mindset

Think like Britain's greatest living Olympian: Ten steps to push your limits and achieve the impossible from the one of the world's greatest swimmers

FEAR!

This book features interviews with the world's best extreme athletes and their coaches on how to overcome fear and self-doubt in stressful situations. Their lessons are valuable for people with all sorts of common fears: flying, public speaking, heights, failure, commitment, rejection, driving a car, taking financial risks or changing career. From self-hypnosis to visualization …

Unlocked

A world-renowned psychologist and mindfulness performance expert who has helped superstars such as Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant transform their careers, offers proven strategies for unleashing our innate strengths, avoiding burnout, and discovering enduring success. We all strive to find flow, when our skills, expertise, and mindset are aligned and we can perform, unimpeded, at …

Mental Training for Ultrarunning

Mental Training for Ultrarunning will help you understand and develop the mental skills needed for successfully competing in an ultrarace. Prepare with 35 activities that will assess your own obstacles and cultivate the skills to run with confidence.