Everyday Mental Skills For Athletes

Physical health isn’t the only concern for middle and high school athletes. The connection between physical, mental, and emotional health needs to be recognized in order to nurture confidence for teen athletes as they face common challenges like fear of failure, perfectionism, and overtraining.Everyday Mental Skills For Athletes addresses those challenges by teaching student athletes to build strong mental skills. With exercises in motivation, goal setting, and techniques to grasp emotional control under pressure, this handbook provides a play-by-play of sports psychology for kids and young adults as they develop their athletic and day-to-day lives.In each chapter, readers will learn about the necessary tools to improve their focus and self-belief, along with real-life stories of professional athletes who have succeeded despite their own similar struggles. Through these relatable anecdotes and science-based strategies, Everyday Mental Skills For Athletes helps you to transform ideas into action—to take what you read about visualization and mindfulness, and apply it to your routine and pregame rituals.This self-help guide encourages you to train your mind as well as your body, because finding balance within yourself is the first step in understanding both your limits and your potential. Everyday Mental Skills For Athletes shows you how to keep getting better on and off the field with the practice, patience, and perseverance it takes to win any game you decide to play. Read more