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Toughness Training for Life: A Revolutionary Program for Maximizing Health, Happiness and Productivity
Sports psychologist and trainer Jim Loehr applies his expertise from the playing field to the trials and tribulations of everyday life. Drawing on years of research and experience, Loehr provides a step-by-step approach that combines mental and physical conditioning with the latest scientific advances in nutrition to create a mind-body synergy that reinforces the immune system, builds energy levels, and toughens you up all-around.
320 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1993
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Jim Loehr
37 books182 followersDr. Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist and author of 16 books including his most recent, The Only Way to Win. He also co-authored the national bestseller The Power of Full Engagement.
Dr. Loehr’s ground-breaking, science-based energy management training system has achieved world-wide recognition and has been chronicled in leading national publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, US News and World Report, Success, Fast Company and Omni. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Nightline with Ted Koppel, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS Morning News, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
From his more than 30 years of experience and applied research, Dr. Loehr believes the single most important factor in successful achievement, personal fulfilment and life satisfaction is the strength of one’s character.
He strongly contends that character strength can be built in the same way that muscle strength is built
through energy investment.
Dr. Loehr has worked with hundreds of world-class performers from the arenas of sport, business, medicine and law enforcement, including Fortune 100 executives, FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, and military Special Forces. Corporate clients of the Institute represent hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, including Procter & Gamble, The Estée Lauder Companies, FBI, GlaxoSmithKline, PepsiCo, and Citigroup Smith Barney. A sampling of his elite clients from the world of sport include golfers Mark O’Meara and Justin Rose; tennis players Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario; boxer Ray Mancini; hockey players Eric Lindros and Mike Richter; and Olympic gold medal speed skater Dan Jansen.
Dr. Loehr possesses a masters and doctorate in psychology, serves on several prestigious scientific boards and is a full member of the American Psychological Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and the Association for
Applied Sport Psychology.
The Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute is the pioneer in delivering a science-based energy management training solution. Based on over 30 years of proprietary research, the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute has worked with elite performers, including Olympic gold medalists, military Special Forces, Hostage Rescue teams, surgeons, and Fortune 500 CEOs to achieve sustained high performance. In 2015 alone, 25 of the Fortune 100 companies participated in Corporate Athlete® training, delivered across 32 countries, in over 500 sessions.
Dr. Loehr’s ground-breaking, science-based energy management training system has achieved world-wide recognition and has been chronicled in leading national publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Business Week, Fortune, Newsweek, Time, US News and World Report, Success, Fast Company and Omni. He has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, ABC’s Nightline with Ted Koppel, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and CBS Morning News, and the Oprah Winfrey Show.
From his more than 30 years of experience and applied research, Dr. Loehr believes the single most important factor in successful achievement, personal fulfilment and life satisfaction is the strength of one’s character.
He strongly contends that character strength can be built in the same way that muscle strength is built
through energy investment.
Dr. Loehr has worked with hundreds of world-class performers from the arenas of sport, business, medicine and law enforcement, including Fortune 100 executives, FBI Hostage Rescue Teams, and military Special Forces. Corporate clients of the Institute represent hundreds of Fortune 500 companies, including Procter & Gamble, The Estée Lauder Companies, FBI, GlaxoSmithKline, PepsiCo, and Citigroup Smith Barney. A sampling of his elite clients from the world of sport include golfers Mark O’Meara and Justin Rose; tennis players Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario; boxer Ray Mancini; hockey players Eric Lindros and Mike Richter; and Olympic gold medal speed skater Dan Jansen.
Dr. Loehr possesses a masters and doctorate in psychology, serves on several prestigious scientific boards and is a full member of the American Psychological Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and the Association for
Applied Sport Psychology.
The Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute is the pioneer in delivering a science-based energy management training solution. Based on over 30 years of proprietary research, the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute has worked with elite performers, including Olympic gold medalists, military Special Forces, Hostage Rescue teams, surgeons, and Fortune 500 CEOs to achieve sustained high performance. In 2015 alone, 25 of the Fortune 100 companies participated in Corporate Athlete® training, delivered across 32 countries, in over 500 sessions.
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August 28, 2014
In the Rodney Dangerfield movie "Easy Money" Rodney's character has a chance to inherit millions if he can avoid drugs, alcohol,cigarettes, sex and gambling for a few days. But he weakens over time, and one of his friends exhorts him: "C'mon. You know what they say, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going.'"
Rodney looks at him with his trademark fidgety neck twitch and says, "Yeah? But what if you're not tough?"
So maybe you're not so tough either? Or maybe you want to get a little tougher? Tired of getting sand kicked in your face? :) This book will get you there.
It has the classic look of a cheesy worthless self-help book, but this baby is loaded with concrete, evidenced-backed information that goes right to the heart of its title: it's showing you a way to get tough for the rest of your life. (Even into your nineties!)
I remember hearing stories of the legendary endurance of Tiger Woods, driving himself mercilessly with little or not sleep for days on end. But then when he did sleep he would sleep for twenty hours straight. And that's one of the things Toughness Training for Life really emphasizes—you can have high stress in your life, but if you have it, you need a lot of recovery time as well. The author shows this great graph with a line in the middle and fluctuating waves going across it. (Can you see it?! Okay, so I'm not so good at describing stuff like that!) The idea is if you go big in one direction (stress), you need to go equally big the other way (recovery). Furthermore, the truly dangerous things are to go flat line on either side of the line. In other words, too much stress without recovery and too little stress are equally dangerous. Which handily refutes the people that think the goal is no stress.
Oh, the author is not all academician. He's part drill sargent too. (And we need this, you know.) Check this out. He writes:
(Being tough) means you control your emotions rather than the other way around. It means you can weather life's storms and seize life's opportunities. It means that when the going gets tough, you're tougher.
Sort of makes you wonder if he saw "Easy Money."
The book is chock full of toughness wisdom with sections on: "Toughening the immune system""Parenting tough kids" and even "Toughening for women"!
Get smart. Get tough. Get Toughness Training for Life.
Free copies of any of my novels for anybody willing to write a review or even if you just try to write one and fail. :) If gifted through Amazon, I would ask that you download them, though. You can find my novels ("IWS Rules", "Judgment Day" and "Now Boarding" are no longer available though) (and "Front Row" is a short story) on my GR author page and if anything appeals message me. :)
Rodney looks at him with his trademark fidgety neck twitch and says, "Yeah? But what if you're not tough?"
So maybe you're not so tough either? Or maybe you want to get a little tougher? Tired of getting sand kicked in your face? :) This book will get you there.
It has the classic look of a cheesy worthless self-help book, but this baby is loaded with concrete, evidenced-backed information that goes right to the heart of its title: it's showing you a way to get tough for the rest of your life. (Even into your nineties!)
I remember hearing stories of the legendary endurance of Tiger Woods, driving himself mercilessly with little or not sleep for days on end. But then when he did sleep he would sleep for twenty hours straight. And that's one of the things Toughness Training for Life really emphasizes—you can have high stress in your life, but if you have it, you need a lot of recovery time as well. The author shows this great graph with a line in the middle and fluctuating waves going across it. (Can you see it?! Okay, so I'm not so good at describing stuff like that!) The idea is if you go big in one direction (stress), you need to go equally big the other way (recovery). Furthermore, the truly dangerous things are to go flat line on either side of the line. In other words, too much stress without recovery and too little stress are equally dangerous. Which handily refutes the people that think the goal is no stress.
Oh, the author is not all academician. He's part drill sargent too. (And we need this, you know.) Check this out. He writes:
(Being tough) means you control your emotions rather than the other way around. It means you can weather life's storms and seize life's opportunities. It means that when the going gets tough, you're tougher.
Sort of makes you wonder if he saw "Easy Money."
The book is chock full of toughness wisdom with sections on: "Toughening the immune system""Parenting tough kids" and even "Toughening for women"!
Get smart. Get tough. Get Toughness Training for Life.
Free copies of any of my novels for anybody willing to write a review or even if you just try to write one and fail. :) If gifted through Amazon, I would ask that you download them, though. You can find my novels ("IWS Rules", "Judgment Day" and "Now Boarding" are no longer available though) (and "Front Row" is a short story) on my GR author page and if anything appeals message me. :)
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Notes: saw this from Timothy Ferriss Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
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Notes: saw this from Timothy Ferriss Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
October 10, 2019
I wrote a consultant project on my friends business with this in mind.
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