Mental Toughness Training for Sports: Achieving Athletic Excellence (Plume)

By Jim Loehr and Dr. James Loehr

Book Overview

No Synopsis Available.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0828905746
• ISBN13: 9780828905749
• Release Date: May 1986
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the best books you will ever read. Period!!!

I live in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and picked this book up in a book store in 1994/1995. I picked up the book because of the title and was always interested of how to make the mind stronger. Well, this was definitely a book I could not put down. It had become one of my all time favorite books to read. I had hi-lighted this book like crazy. That's how good the book was. I learnt so much from it and my life definitely...

Great for musicians, too...

I'm a drummer and have always had some glitches in my performances when I thought the pressure was on. I've read this book once thru and am already thinking differently on the stage. I've read tons of music books on the subject of letting go of the chatter in your head, but this blows them all away with concrete exercises and evaluations to gauge your mental toughness.

a must read

if you've decided to open up that can of worms that is sports psych, then you really should read this gem. it is vastly superior to all his other books.

Mastering the Mental side of sports

This book was given to me a few years ago by one of my coaches. This book is possibly the most helpful book that I have ever read. I am a goalie in ice hockey (15 years old) and have always been regarded as the hardest worker that people have ever seen. But when it came to big games, I clearly wasn't always my sharpest. Many coaches say that sports is 90% mental, but how can you improve your mental skills? Improving mental...

the bible

suggested to me by a world cup winning athlete who owns and old out of print copy covered in tape to hold it together, this book is brilliant. my career as an elite athlete jumped a number of levels whilst reading it. his more recent book is nothing compared to this. go to your library and photocopy it, no one will sell it to you. it is the best.