Mental Skills and Drills for Track And Field by Mark Stanbrough

Mental Skills and Drills for Track And Field by Mark Stanbrough

Track and field athletes put in numerous hours of training to shape the body. You train to be strong and powerful You train to become fast, strong and powerful You train hard, running, jumping, or throwing, to be the best you can be. But are you doing everything you can to be the best you can be? Athletes often train the physical component with a well-planned, systematic program that focuses on the physiological aspects, yet the mental training tools have not been provided and practiced. Mental skills training is often not an important component of training because few athletes and coaches are ever formally exposed to mental skills and drills. How important is the mental side of track and field? How ironic that both athletes and coaches consider mental skills to be an extremely important part of high performance, but yet do not take the time to learn and develop a systematic program to develop the mental skills. The mind controls the body, and as an athlete, you want control over what your physical energy can create. Only when you have a fully prepared mind can you reach your full potential and perform at your peak. Like physical training, mental training must be practiced on a consistent basis. Mental Skills and Drills for Track and Field has been designed to prepare you mentally to practice and compete to your potential. It supplies mental skills and drills that will allow you to develop your mental skills and become a better athlete. Only you can make the decision to commit to the mental program to improve

Dr. Mark Stanbrough has over thirty years' experience of successfully teaching mental skills to students and coaches and has coaching experience at the collegiate, high school, middle school and club levels. He is a professor in the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Emporia State University in Kansas and is the director of Coaching Education. The Coaching Education program at Emporia State is currently one of only ten universities in the United State to be accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Coaching Education. He teaches graduate and undergraduate exercise physiology and sports psychology classes. He was a co-founder of the online physical education graduate program, the first in United States to go completely online. He received his Ph.D. in exercise physiology from the University of Oregon, and undergraduate and master's degrees from Emporia State in physical education. He has served as department chair and has served on the National Association for Sport and Physical Education National Sport Steering Committee and is a past member of the board of directors for the National Council for the Accreditation of Coaching Education. Coach Stanbrough served eight years as the head men's and women's cross country/track and field coach at Emporia State (1984-1992) with the 1986 women's cross country team finishing second at the NAIA national meet. He has also coached at Emporia High School and Glasco High School in Kansas. He competed in cross country and track and field for the Emporia State Hornets and has been inducted as a member of the Emporia State University Athletic Hall of Honor. He has also been inducted into the Emporia State Health, Physical Education, Recreation Hall of Honor and has won numerous coach-of-the-year awards at the high school and collegiate levels.

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ISBN 13	9780989433884
ISBN 10	0989433889
Titre	Mental Skills and Drills for Track And Field
Auteur	Mark Stanbrough
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Roho Publishing
Année de publication	2016-02-24
Nombre de pages	214
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