Mental toughness for runners A complete guide
Book - 2019
Mental Toughness for Runners gives the reader highly effective methods for successful mental training, including self-coaching, well-founded training psychology, and thought-provoking strategies for self-reflection. The mental training presented in this book has been proven successful by numerous coaching sessions and by endurance athletes throughout the world who have achieved significant and often dramatic achievements after improving their motivation, performance, and well-being with this mental training. In addition, the exercises are supplemented with case studies from various coaching sessions. The book also delves into the science of mental training so that the reader may understand the reasons behind certain training concepts, but a...lways the focus remains on practicing and directly applying the methods to the runner's training. This book will guide the reader through a personal assessment of his training so that he may develop an individually tailored mental training plan which can then be integrated into everyday sports life.
- Subjects
- Published
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Maidenhead :
Meyer & Meyer Sport
2019.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "Originally published as Mentaltraining fuÌ⁸r LaÌ⁸ufer, ©2016 by Meyer & Meyer Verlag"--Title page verso.
- Physical Description
- 271 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260).
- ISBN
- 9781782551614
- Prologue
- 1. It All Begins With an Unusual Running Story
- 1.1. The Atacama experiment: Performance that defies the imagination
- 1.2. The book's character and structure: How it works
- 2. How Much of Your Head is in Your Feet?
- 2.1. Antiquated everyday training: Is the earth still flat?
- 2.2. Power of the mind
- 2.3. The mind's astounding effects on the body: Learning to control the uncontrollable?!
- 2.4. Mental training as the magic bullet? Possibilities and limits
- 3. Position Fixing: Starting My Personal Navigation System
- 3.1. "I'm going to rate myself": Important topics in a nutshell
- 3.2. Where am I right now?
- 3.3. Personal performance profile
- 3.4. Diagnosing my mental strengths
- 3.5. Why do I run? What drives me?
- 4. Motivation and Coals: Fueling and Guiding Productive Energy
- 4.1. Everyday self-sabotage, or: Fuck you, problem!
- 4.2. Never again, motivational problems! A beautiful new world of athletics or something from the psychological bag of tricks?
- 4.3. Brain-appropriate goal management The basis of success
- 5. 7-D Head Cinema: Let the Magic Happen
- 5.1. Visualization with virtuosity = 7-D experience patterns
- 5.2. Visualization guide
- 5.3. Remembering a successful future: Irresistible wish goals, performances, and results
- 5.4. Magic moments: Perfect movements, processes, and sequences
- 5.5. The big picture: Visualizing competitions
- 6. Using Resources
- 6.1. Resource reload: The Swiss army knife of mental training
- 6.2. Focusing attention: Learning from the grand masters
- 6.3. Self-talk: How we can constructively guide the voices in our head
- 6.4. You're allowed to copy: Learning from more or less glam models
- 6.5. Act as if: Fake it till you make it
- 6.6. Testing and creating self-confidence
- 6.7. Relaxed effectiveness and effective relaxation
- 7. The Dark Side of Running and How to Turn It Into Opportunities
- 7.1. A threat to body and soul: The negative effects of positive thinking
- 7.2. Shit happens: How to handle failure
- 7.3. Crises, opportunities, twists, and turns: How does a world champion think?
- 7.4. From research & practice: Mental resilience as means for success
- 7.5. Sports injuries: The role our mind plays in the occurrence and healing of injuries
- 7.6. Exercise addiction: What exactly is it and am I affected?
- 7.7. What happens when success makes you unhappy?
- Outlook
- Interview with Michele Ufer: When Managers Learn to Run
- References
- Readers' opinions on the book
- Success Stories
- Photo credits