Sports Development

The Choice Point merges mindfulness, cognitive behavioural therapy and the new practice of FIT (Functional Image Therapy) into a user-friendly model for blasting through negative thoughts, adjusting your behaviour to make better choices, and for making decisions that are always in support of achieving your goals.

In What It Takes to Be #1, Vince Lombardi, Jr. explores his father's leadership philosophy and extracts powerful lessons about what it takes to be an effective leader. Taking as his jumping-off point his father's legendary 1970 speech on the supreme importance of self-knowledge, character, and integrity, Lombardi, Jr. examines each of those qualities and offers guidelines on cultivating and applying them at work and in your personal life.

This is a must-listen, cautionary tale for any parents with kids in youth sports or any adult considering coaching children. We have a coaching crisis in this country. Because of the parents with unrealistic assessments of how much more important their kids are to their teams or just how good (or not) their children are, coaches are putting their personal and professional reputations on the line when they coach a team for these parents: And the risks are starting to outweigh the rewards.

The Mushin Way teaches tools and techniques to help you reach peak performance and transform your business and personal life. Regardless of what we want to achieve in business or in life, transformation can be difficult and we tend to be our own worst enemies. We hold ourselves back without even realizing what we are capable of. In this audiobook, you'll learn how to break through the cycle of stress and setbacks to act with clarity, purpose, and direction - achieving peak performance and transformation along the way.

From the backyard hockey rink to the nail-biting suspense of draft days, Karl Subban shares tales of his family's unique hockey journey. Mixing personal stories with lessons he learned as a coach and principal - lessons about goal setting, perseverance, and accomplishment - How We Did It will allow other parents, teachers, coaches, and mentors to apply the same principles as they help the young people in their lives to identify, develop, and live their dreams.

13 World Championship appearances. 6 Olympic Games. Hockey Hall of Famer. All while raising a child, earning multiple university degrees, and not benefiting from the financial stability male professional athletes have. She gave the game everything she had—now, Hayley shares what the game gave her.

"Questa è una storia di errori e occasioni mancate, di imperfezioni e cedimenti, di abbandoni e di sconfitte, di ritiri e contraddizioni. Eppure è la storia di due re che hanno avuto la fortuna e la colpa di nascere nella stessa epoca: così opposti da attrarsi, ma costretti a sfidarsi dal destino che prevede un solo posto per il trono. Qualcuno ha dedicato un libro alla solitudine dei numeri primi e a voler esser pignoli nessun numero è asociale come il numero uno.

What does a young footballer do to cut loose? At night, some play what they think of as pranks or games: night games with women. Sometimes these involve consensual sex, sometimes not, and often the lines are blurred. In Night Games, Anna Krien follows the rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer. She also takes a balanced and fearless look at the dark side of footy culture - the world of Sam Newman, Ricky Nixon, Matty Johns and the Croa Sharks.

Bill Geivett draws on his 28 years of experience in professional baseball to answer these questions. He offers his insights from his time as a player, scout, and front office executive. Do You Want to Work in Baseball? is more than a "how to" description of details to remember. It is filled with Bill's real-life lessons learned from the varied roles he has held for Major League Baseball clubs including the California Angels, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos,Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Colorado Rockies.

When Pat Cummins unexpectedly became Australia's 47th Test captain at age 28, he inherited a team with a long and storied history, but also one on the cusp of reinvention. It was the beginning of a personal leadership journey for him, a unique moment of challenge and pressure that would see him become a seasoned captain and, in his private life, become a father and husband but also lose his mother to cancer.

Acclaimed essayist Mark Edmundson reflects on his own rite of passage as a high school football player to get to larger truths about the ways America's Game shapes its men. Football teaches young men self-discipline and teamwork. But football celebrates violence. Football is a showcase for athletic beauty and physical excellence. But football damages young bodies and minds, sometimes permanently. Football inspires confidence and direction. But football instills cockiness, a false sense of superiority.

The founder of Tough Mudder - the world's greatest obstacle course races - takes us inside his unconventional company and reveals how tribes form and grow in surprising and powerful ways.

Have you ever dreamed of becoming a pro wrestler? Have you ever thought about quitting your job to travel the world and pursue your childhood dream? While this may sound like the rock star lifestyle, the truth is the pro wrestling journey is not easy. Not even close. It is a long road of sacrifices, challenges, and dedication. What if there was an audiobook full of knowledge that helped accelerate your learning to make your pro wrestling dream become a reality without going through hardships of trial and error? Ian Bello has you covered with Becoming a Pro Wrestler.

The inspirational manual 350 Mental Models on Developing Mental Toughness: A Handbook for Young Athletes by Boris Mullayev gives young athletes the mental tools they need to excel in their sports and overcome difficulties with resiliency and determination.

The principles you will discover within this audiobook work. In every walk of life, if you don't think right you don't perform to the best of your ability - regardless of your knowledge and skill level. The sports arena has spent millions of dollars and decades of research getting to the bottom of this fact - now you and your team can benefit without reinventing the wheel.

The transformative mind-model for performing under stress and making pressure your advantage. Used by the planet’s top performers. In Performance Under Pressure, forensic psychiatrist Dr Ceri Evans gives you the tools to take control of the moment. Beat doubt, worry, regret and burnout with simple mind techniques and discover the secret of how to be ‘comfortable being uncomfortable’. No one is immune to pressure. We all fall victim to its effects in the same ways. But pressure is misunderstood.

Job loss. Foreclosure. Relationship woes. Health issues. Dire financial straits. If recent history has taught us anything, it's that nobody goes through life unscathed -- no matter how rich, how smart, how talented, or how fortunate they may be. White collar, blue collar, or no collar, there is an undeniable commonality to the raw emotion that strikes people when they are knocked down.

Get ready to dominate the field with "Dominate the Field: The Ultimate Guide to American Football Training, Nutrition, and Mental Mastery." This comprehensive e-book is packed with insider tips, scientifically-backed exercises, and practical advice to help you take your American Football performance to the next level. Featuring the expertise of a seasoned coach and trainer with 20 years of experience working with football players and other athletes, this book covers everything you need to know to maximize your skills, from strength and conditioning to nutrition and recovery, and mental ...

In the mid-1990s, facing severe cuts to its public funding, the University of Oregon - like so many colleges across the country - was desperate for cash. Luckily, the Oregon Ducks' 1995 Rose Bowl berth caught the attention of the school's wealthiest alumnus: Nike founder Phil Knight, who was seeking new marketing angles at the collegiate level. And so the University of Nike was born. But as journalist Joshua Hunt reveals in University of Nike, Oregon has paid dearly for the veneer of financial prosperity and athletic success that has come with this brand partnering.

Have you ever tried to catch confetti falling to the floor? Are you searching for the next competitive edge to make your dreams come true? With Catching Confetti, you no longer have to be left standing in awe of those at the top of the mountain. Bret Burchard and Chris McAlister have unpacked the seven essential mind-sets you need to reach and sustain world-class performance, and they offer simple transformational exercises to develop them in yourself.