Mental Toughness Training for Sports: Achieving Athletic Excellence

by Jim Loehr

Is your game not quite as godd as it should be? Do you train hard only to find that at critical moments your concentration not your skill fails you? Dr, Jim Loehr explains how you can develop you mind and your body to play your best.

Genres: Psychology, Self Help, Sports, Fitness, Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published May 6, 1986

About the author

Dr. 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.

Reviews

[Michael Nazari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing, I highlighted a lot and will be returning to this often. A lot of fundamentals of what determines success that can easily be applied outside of sports.

I'm finding older books are better at communicating principles since they rely less on scientific studies or data to convince the reader, and more on the proper explanation of a concept.

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Notes: saw this from Timothy Ferriss Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely useful book! Practical tips, exercises and routines to become more emotionally robust--not just in sports but in life. Very much worth reading.

Notes:
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[A Ter · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some time-tested tips, but also a lot of very dated material.

[Seemy · Rating 2 out of 5]

this was an 'ok' typical self audio which is not bad for its time, but covered a broad spectrum of topics, but still very vaguely


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[Jeff · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book should be called: "Sucking It Up; with applications in all phases of life" or "Gumption 101."