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In a truly groundbreaking exposé of professional golf, Michael Calvin and Thomas Bjorn - captain of the 2018 European Ryder Cup Team - capture the distinctive nature of the game, and the principles and philosophies of players who dominate the world rankings. With unprecedented access to the European Tour players, and in-depth interviews with the European Ryder Cup team, Calvin reveals a sport which operates entirely within the finest margins of excellence.

In any high-pressure environment, from special operations to the operating theatre, you can divide people into two groups—those whose performance is controlled from the outside in and those who control their performance from the inside out. Inside Out is about your ability to achieve incredible things on the outside by paying attention to what's on the inside.

There comes a time in every competitive athlete's life when the cheering stops, and it's time to move on to other pursuits. Written by a former Division 1 football player and Academic All-American, The Way of the Athlete argues that sports prepares athletes for this transition by instilling qualities that contribute to academic, business, and personal success.

Distilling the primary lessons of Ferguson's phenomenal success as manager at Manchester United and showing how you can apply them to you own personal goals, this book explains Ferguson's approach to people management, changing mind-sets, visualisation, building confidence and embracing change - all techniques at the heart of turning Manchester United into a winning machine.

THE ONLY SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY WORKBOOK THAT’S EXCLUSIVELY DESIGNED FOR SOFTBALL PLAYERS TO BUILD MENTAL TOUGHNESS AND BOOST THEIR ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE Players hear it all the time… "Softball is 90% Mental, and 10% Physical” "It's All in Your Head" "The Only One that Can Stop You is You" "You have to be Mentally Tough!" But what exactly do those sayings mean??? Without something concrete, it's difficult for players to understand what it specifically takes to have a mental approach primed for success. And rather than have a debate with someone who knows nothing about mental training or ...

Are you a young athlete looking to compete with the best? How about a seasoned professional wanting to stay at the top of their game? One of the toughest aspects of being an athlete is consistency; not just performing well at one event, but being the best every time you enter a competition. No matter how hard you train or tweak your diet, you might feel like you’ve hit a plateau. You might not be making any more progress at all. You aren’t alone!

Learn 50 lessons to achieve your goals, and find inspiring stories from the world’s top athletes.

The Joy of Pickleball is the definitive guide for the senior player who wants to play better, healthier, and happier! Best-selling author of Pickleball & The Art of Living, Mike Branon, offers concise techniques and strategies to unlock your pickleball potential that are easy to understand and implement. Equal parts instruction, storytelling, sports psychology, and resource, this book invites you to fully experience the joy of pickleball at any age! You’re never too old to enjoy life and play well. Come along and find out how!

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Play On by Jeff Bercovici, read by Adam Sims. Sports are about challenging our physical limits. But the greatest limit of all remains undefeated: age. We're taught to believe that ageing thwarts effort and grace, talent and grit, outstanding teamwork and individual brilliance. But a new breed of top professionals - the likes of Roger Federer, Jo Pavey and Tom Brady - are overturning long-held assumptions about the duration of primetime in a sporting career. It's not that aging causes a decline in fitness; rather, a decline in fitness causes aging.

Here's a fact you just can't escape - you need huge reserves of mental toughness in just about every sphere of life to achieve personal and professional goals. This book will guide you through the notion of mental toughness for peak performance. You will learn more of what it takes to rise above adverse situations, unforeseen circumstances and challenges in pursuit of your ambitions.

Unlike other fitness books that focus solely on your body, your muscles, and your diet, this game-changing book focuses on the key that unlocks your full potential; your mindset. Your mind is the force that makes change possible - it's like a supercar, and you are the driver. Do you want to keep it parked in a dark garage? Or do you want to drive it at its top speed down the highway?

Famous, three-time Grand Slam winner, Arthur Ashe, pointed out that many in sport 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.

This book will show you how to develop and maintain your own powerful mental toughness with a series of advanced technique and strategies. It will reveal how you can use your own mental strength to push through any ordeal to victory, to endure any suffering to gain huge success. If you want to gain victories in every aspect of life, to push forward to spectacular triumphs, then listen to this book. It will change your life forever.

Never have the best sportspeople seemed so far removed from the rest of us. So how are these extraordinary athletes made and what do their achievements tell us about success? The Best reveals how the most incredible sportspeople in the world got that way. It is a unique look at the path to sporting greatness. This is a story of origins, training, luck and serendipity, as well as of sports science and cutting-edge technology.

Joe Queenan turns his attention to a weighty issue: the wide world of sports fans. "Fans Who Love Too Much" shows the plight of men who, like the author, resort to psychotherapy to deal with their addiction. "Fans Who Misbehave" attempts to deconstruct otherwise solid citizens who, once they enter a stadium, spill beer on women. True Believers

You’ve been working on your game. You know what you’re capable of; you’ve done it over and over again in practice, scrimmages, and games against your friends. Then game time comes, and...nothing. You're invisible on the court. Knowing the skills you have, this is really frustrating. Is it mental? Is it physical? Is it something else? It’s a little bit of all those and more. This workbook, Playing as Well as You Practice, will move you past it.

Mental Toughness: Achieve Goals and Conquer Life with an Elite Mindset is a handy guidebook that was specifically designed to help you master mental toughness. From teaching you about the concept of mental toughness, where it originated from, and how it can benefit your life, to helping you with building your mental strength and overcoming any challenges you may face, this audiobook has it all! Mental toughness is the one skill that you need to transform yourself from a liability to an asset.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tales of Golf and Sport contains Chicken Soup for the Soul’s 101 best stories and poems about golfers, golfing, and other sports. This book has fresh appeal to golfers and makes a fabulous gift. Golfers are a special breed. They endure bad weather, early wake-up calls, great expense, and "interesting" clothing to engage in their favorite sport. This is not a book about how to play golf - it is a book about how it feels to play golf. Professional and amateur athletes contribute stories from the heart, yielding a book about the human side of golf and other sports.

Chances are, you've seen it happen with your own favorite time. They hire a coach that you know is bad but you can't turn away.... It's like watching a car wreck or a horror movie.... You know things are going to turn out bad but you watch, cross your fingers, and...things turn out even worse than you imagined. It is all because he is there, the worst coach in NFL history. In some cases, no one knows how or why he got the job. But he got it. And he is on your team...and oh, boy...bring out the beer, lots of it, 'cause it's going to be a looooong season.

Tia Toomey, the world's fittest woman, has won the CrossFit Games an incredible six years in a row and is undeniably a true warrior. She has also trained for the Winter Olympics in bobsledding, competed in the Summer Olympics in weightlifting and was a Commonwealth Games gold medalist. She is, in short, one of the most accomplished and dominant athletes in human history. But for Tia physical fitness is only a small part of overall strength. More important is building mental toughness. In The Heart Is the Strongest Muscle, Tia shows how she reached elite levels by focusing on her "why."