Sports Psyching: Playing Your Best Game All of the Time

by Thomas Tutko

As a consultant to teams and individual players on every level of competition, Dr. Thomas Tutko has helped thousands of athletes overcome the psychological barriers to consistantly playing their best game. In SPORTS PSYCHING, he gives you a program that replaces stress-related habits with constructive behavior. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874771366
• ISBN13: 9780874771367
• Release Date: April 1976
• Publisher: Tarcher
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Sports Psyching

I had the good fortune to attend a seminar through at that time the United States Gymnastics Federation and Thomas Tutko was a featured teacher. I bought his book. I coached gymnastics at that time. Turned his book into a curriculum for my top girls. This I did in the summer when my best trained about 25-30 hours a week. It took every bit of an hour of workout time and about 8 weeks to get well in place with my girls. Gymnastics is an incredible "head" sport once the physical mastery is done. The scores went up 20-30% across the board- and my girls did not get rattled in the wide range of "stuff" that can happen in the gymnastic arena. The next year I attended another workshop by Dr. Tutko...told what I had done with his book- the results my girls got - his book sold out that day. I still have my copy. His book made an impact never forgotten. I would like to thank him!

SIMPLY ONE OF THE BEST

In the late 70s early 80s I coached gymnastics professionally. During that time at a couple of the national conventions in that profession Thomas Tutko gave workshops. The first time I took his workshop, was impressed and then bought his book. I LITERALLY made it into a curriculum for my gymnasts. It took about 6-8 weeks to get it between their ears that summer. But the following year my gymnast's scores and performances DRAMATICALLY improved. They also had a much higher degree of enjoyment of their hard work. At the next national convention I took his workshop again and commented on what a major impact his book had on my athletes. His book sold out that day! ANYONE doing anything competitive at all I highly recommend this book, and I refer people to it often. The applications to sports can also be converted to many other facets of life. I am not in general big "fan" of psychology. Some psychology is a form of intellectual narcissism, arrogance and heresy. Sports Psyching is the finest information in that field I have experienced YTD. And applying techniques from this book actually had MEASURABLE RESULTS when I coached women's gymnastics. Investing in this book has a great pay pack.

A good mental attitude in sport wins 90% of the time

Sports Psyching gives you a roadmap to achieving your personal best in sport through mental training. Combined with the testing program by Dr. Tutko, called The Mental Game Plan, a test that appraises your attitudes against thousands of other athletes, this information allows you to implement a plan for better game performance and improved communication between coach and athlete.