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Mental Toughness Training for Sports: Achieving Athletic Excellence (Plume)
Mental Toughness Training for Sports Achieving Athletic Excellence - Plume Author:James E. Loehr Although successful athletes credit attitude, motivation and visualization for many of their accomplishments, few jocks spend even as much as 5% of training time in mental preparation, athletic mental trainer Loehr contends. Development of that element of sports is the purpose of this step-by-step guide to what the author calls the Athletic Trai... more »ning System. Although the text sometimes reads like a long locker-room lecturecomplete with jargon (ideal performance state, positive energy flow, etc.) there is useful advice about self-concepts, muscle-relaxation, meditation and controlling emotions that make this worthwhile for the committed athlete. In a brief forword, Arthur Ashe asserts that Loehr's mental-discipline principles have been invaluable for him both on and off the tennis court. (May
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