Friday, April 26, 2013

BOBBEE BEE: HOOP DREAMS

In our NEW children’s Book entitled, “Larry Long Legs,” you will learn quickly that…”even the fastest, strongest, smartest and most skilled will underachieve if they concentrate on the wrong things, are unable to quickly let go of mistakes or bad breaks, lack self-confidence or can't handle the pressure of competition.

If you leave the mental side of performance to chance, then you're more vulnerable to performance problems like excessive nervousness, psych-outs, choking, slumps and blocks.

To be more consistently successful you have to learn to harness the power of sports psychology to help you think like a winner and develop mental toughness.

What is mental toughness? In sports psychology, mental toughness is a combination of learned skills that will help you raise the level of your training and competitive performance:

These include:· Goal Setting
· Stress Management
· Self-Confidence
· Reboundability”
· Winning Concentration
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Imagery & Visualization


As a coach, a working knowledge of sports psychology techniques will help you become more effective and therefore much more successful with your athletes.
 

Knowing how to get the most out of your players at “crunch time” and how to avoid the mental traps that far too many coaches fall into will enhance your technical skills as a coach and give you the competitive advantage.

Train your athletes to use mental toughness skills and they'll regularly compete to their potential.

As a parent, the principles in sports psychology and youth sports can help you insure that your children enjoy their competitive sports experience, learn quickly and perform to their potential. In addition, sports psychology can help you avoid the performance-disruptive and self-esteem damaging mistakes made by too many well-meaning parents. If you really want your child to win, then you must learn to play the proper role on the athlete-coach-parent team. " by Dr. Gail (sports psychologist)




Gain that Competitive Advantage and "mental toughness" by reading our new children's book entitled "Larry LONG LEGS" available at www.bn.com, www.authorhouse.com