Performance Training

Famous three-time Grand Slam winner Arthur Ashe pointed out that many in sports fall victim to “paralysis by analysis”. Athletes on any level can experience the pain of overthinking and sabotaging their performance. Blame many traditional methods of teaching and training. How can we train smarter, not harder? If only our body and mind could perform in a way that’s more natural and instinctive. The best athletes have this quality, but many feel it is simply unattainable for them. I assure you it is not.

Until now, sport training has been more witchcraft than science. Traditional coaching is based on copying recipes written in old books, with little science and more answers than questions. Traditional physiology, also marked by reductionism and the idea that the organism works like a machine, gives us incomplete and unsatisfactory answers that are inadequate when we leave the theoretical world to go to the real world. In this book, we approach the world of training from the perspective of Complex Systems, which will offer us a new vision of the world, health and organisms. In this book, you...

If you want to be faster, stronger, and less prone to injury, it’s critical you understand how important the body’s fascia system is to athletic performance. Modern research and imaging technologies are showing us that it’s far more significant than we have long understood. That’s why Bill Parisi—founder of the Parisi Speed School—and extreme sports writer, Johnathon Allen, set out on a nationwide quest to interview the top experts in the field so they could present this new performance science in a paradigm shifting book that’s not only packed with practical information, but ...

Competition anxiety and overthinking putting a wrench in your athlete’s chase after victory? Learn ways to help them overcome mental hurdles and embrace true potential. Struggling to find a training plan that doesn’t leave a young competitor impatient? Certain they could make it into the record books if they could just discover their edge? Wishing for a peek inside the minds of greats like LeBron James, Simone Biles, and Lionel Messi? After working with over 5,000 athletes, coach and author Andrew J Simpson has identified exactly what makes a champion tick. And now he’s here to help ...

In The Science of Running, elite coach and exercise physiologist Steve Magness integrates the latest research with the training processes of the world's best runners, to deliver an in depth look at how to maximize your performance. It is a unique book that conquers both the scientific and practical points of running in two different sections. The first is aimed at identifying what limits running performance from a scientific standpoint. In section two, we turn to the practical application of this information and focus on the process of training to achieve your goals.

This book is about Training, the Science of Enhancing the Future. It's the revised and updated 2025 edition. It was created for you and everyone in the workforce, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve. Training is the ability to prepare others for the future by enhancing their performance, unleashing their potential, and encouraging their professional development. It’s one of twenty books that comprise a program called SUCCESS MADE SIMPLE, designed to help you achieve your true potential. The first ten...

Written by a Sports Performance Professional, Certified Mental Training Coach, AND Parent of a Division 1 Athlete. Teen athletes navigate a challenging world, balancing high expectations and pressures. Mental toughness is their secret weapon. This book explores its role beyond the playing field, addressing academic stress, social complexities, and personal development. Discover: Specialized Guide: Tailored for adolescent athletes and parents, recognizing their unique challenges. Practical Strategies: Equip young athletes with actionable techniques for real-life application. Comprehensive ...

Discover the cutting edge of strength science with Faster Reps, Bigger Lifts: Velocity-Based Training for the Modern Athlete. This high-performance guide explores Velocity-Based Training (VBT)—a revolutionary method that uses bar speed to optimize strength, power, and hypertrophy. Whether you're a competitive athlete, coach, or strength enthusiast, this book delivers a practical framework for applying real-time velocity feedback to boost results, manage fatigue, and drive continual progress. Backed by peer-reviewed research and real-world case studies, each chapter breaks down VBT ...

Next Level Sales Coaching offers insights to sales executives, customer-service managers, business owners, and other professional managers on strategies to overcome common challenges in building a "best in class" sales team. Sales performance can impact a company's revenue, profits, market share, and employee retention. The question is, how do you positively impact those goals? The answer is simple: Sales improve when your team is better trained, coached, and supported.

You've probably heard a lot about Heart Rate Variability (HRV) lately. It's become a buzzword in the health and fitness community. Why all the buzz? Because research indicates that by tracking HRV you can optimize your workout routine, get better sleep, and even improve your mental health. And for the first time, the tools for tracking HRV are not limited to scientists, labs, or elite athletes. Thanks to Oura Rings, Whoop Bands, and Apple, Fitbit, Garmin and a host of other devices, HRV tracking is now available to everyone. But what is HRV? And how can you harness the power of your device ...

“Joe is a master in teaching Agile with meaningful real-world non-software examples.” – George Tome, Enterprise Agile Coach, John Deere “One of the best professional trainings in the world” – Fabian Delava, Partner, Bain & Company“You really rocked your roles as instructor, cheerleader, and host” – Ken Merchant, 3 Star General, USAF Retired“Joe has broken new ground using Scrum in manufacturing” -- Dr. Jeff Sutherland, Co-creator of Scrum

Delegating work, responsibility, and authority is difficult in a company because it means letting others make decisions which involve spending the owner-manager's money. At a minimum, you should delegate enough authority to get the work done, to allow assistants to take initiative, and to keep the operation moving in your absence. This guide discusses controlling those who carry responsibility and authority and coaching them in self-improvement. It emphasizes the importance of allowing competent assistants to perform in their own style rather than insisting that things be done exactly as ...

Writing from both the cutting edge of scientific discovery and the front-lines of elite athletic performance, National Magazine Award-winning science journalist Alex Hutchinson presents a revolutionary account of the dynamic and controversial new science of endurance.

Did you know there is an area of your brain known as the "Lizard Brain" that thinks only about the immediate moment and your means of survival? Yes, in certain circumstances, your "Rational Brain" can effectively "shut down" and you are at the mercy of a reptile... dry-mouthed, sweating, queasy, unable to think clearly - even though you know better. When does the Lizard Brain run the show? It can happen in any number of unfamiliar, uncomfortable, challenging, or "stressful" riding situations. But here's the thing: with the right kind of training, you can learn to manage the reptile within.

Alpha Tennis Blueprint Neuroscience, Strategy & Mindset for Total Court Dominance by Kevin L. Michel Command the Court Before the First Ball Is Struck Every match is two battles in one: the rally you see on the scoreboard and the primal status duel that unfolds in posture, gaze, and brain chemistry. Alpha Tennis Blueprint shows you how to win both. Drawing on breakthrough neuroscience, cutting-edge performance psychology, and the hard lessons of modern legends, Kevin L. Michel delivers a step-by-step manual for imposing your will—from the opening handshake to the final handshake. Inside ...

Unlock Your True Potential! Introducing the game-changing eBook that will redefine how you approach athleticism and sports mastery. "Unlocking Your Athletic Potential" is the ultimate guide to elevating your athletic prowess and achieving peak performance, regardless of your skill level. With 30 incredible chapters, this eBook leaves no stone unturned as it carefully takes you through each stage of your athletic journey. Begin with understanding the athletic mindset and setting the right goals before delving into expert advice on targeted sports, specialized training, optimal movement ...

Achieve the champion mindset for peak performance. Reach new levels of success and mental toughness with this ultimate guide. Learn the "Science of Success" and prepare to excel. In this concise and highly acclaimed training guide, Peak Performance Coach DC Gonzalez teaches a blend of unique mental training technologies, sports psychology essentials, and peak performance methods that are effective and motivational. Get ready to increase your self-belief, self-confidence, and mental toughness using this powerful guide designed to help you reach new levels of success, sports performance and personal development.

A breakthrough program for triathletes - beginner, intermediate, and advanced - showing how to balance training intensity to maximize performance - from a fitness expert and elite coach. Cutting-edge research has proven that triathletes and other endurance athletes experience their greatest performance when they do 80 percent of their training at low intensity and the remaining 20 percent at moderate to high intensity.

Chaos isn’t the enemy—it’s the training partner elite athletes never skip. Embrace the Chaos is the definitive guide to Unstable Load Training (ULT), a revolutionary method that enhances joint integrity, core control, and movement resilience by introducing calculated instability into strength work. Written for serious lifters, coaches, therapists, and performance-driven athletes, this book explains how controlled chaos transforms the nervous system—not just muscles—for real-world power and durability. Grounded in cutting-edge neuromuscular research and battle-tested in high-...

How to make sure your training gets results Learning, and the hoped-for subsequent behaviour change is a process, and yet we focus on the training event thinking that if we can only get that right, everything else will be wonderful. This is no more true for training than it is for a wedding. The quality of the wedding ceremony does not predict the quality of the subsequent marriage. There is a lot more to do after the ceremony, and there is also a lot more to do after the training event to get to 'happily ever after'. Sadly, very few people do what it takes to get even reasonable results ...