Bring Your A Game: A Young Athlete's Guide to Mental Toughness by Jennifer L.

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Introduces key strategies for mental training, such as goal setting, pre-performance routines, confidence building, and imagery. This book helps young performers develop a plan for success and learn to deal with the challenges of pursuing excellence in sport.

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This book shows how kids can train their brains for success in any sport. Mental training is just as important as physical training when it comes to success in sport. And like physical fitness, mental toughness is something that can be taught and learned. Yet many young athletes have not learned the psychological skills needed to develop their best game. This book was written specifically for young athletes interested in improving their performance and reaching their potential in sport. ""Bring Your 'A' Game"" introduces key strategies for mental training, such as goal setting, pre-performance routines, confidence building, and imagery. Each of the seventeen chapters focuses on a single mental skill and offers key points and exercises designed to reinforce the concepts. The book encourages athletes to incorporate these mental skills into their daily lives and practice sessions so that they become second nature during competition. Whether used at home by student athletes or assigned by coaches as part of team development, ""Bring Your 'A' Game"" will help young performers develop a plan for success and learn to deal with the challenges of pursuing excellence in sport.

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Mental training is just as important as physical training when it comes to success in sport. This book was written specifically for young athletes interested in improving their performance and reaching their potential in sport. Etnier introduces 17 key strategies for mental training, such as goal setting, pre-performance routines, confidence building, and imagery, and offers key points and exercises designed to reinforce the concepts. The book encourages athletes to incorporate these mental skills into their daily lives and practice sessions so that they become second nature during competition.

Author Biography

JENNIFER L. ETNIER is associate professor of exercise and sport science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A soccer player and former coach, she leads sport psychology seminars for the United States Soccer Federation. DOMINY ALDERMAN is an artist and educator currently living in Laramie, Wyoming.

Review

Teaches how to implement the mental skills that contribute to mental toughness. . . . While [it] is written for the young athlete, adults who work with young people will also find it helpful.--ForeWord Offers strategies for junior- and high-school athletes to reach their potential through mental training. . . . The advice is concrete and clearly rooted in the author's wide experience.--Kirkus Reviews Bring Your 'A' Game offers young athletes . . . a nice primer for mental training. . . . [A] great first step . . . helping young 'achievers' understand the mental aspect of their game or other activity.--PA West Touchline Bring Your 'A' Game introduces young athletes to key strategies such as goal setting, pre-performance routines, confidence building, and imagery.--Carolina Country

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Teaches how to implement the mental skills that contribute to mental toughness. . . . While [it] is written for the young athlete, adults who work with young people will also find it helpful.-- ForeWord

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"I have found that the first step in building a championship team is to get each individual player to think like a champion. Jennifer Etnier's Bring Your 'A' Game is essential reading for any young athlete who dreams of playing at the highest level."--Anson Dorrance, women's soccer coach, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Details ISBN0807859907 Author Jennifer L. Etnier Short Title BRING YOUR A GAME Publisher University of North Carolina Press Language English Illustrator Dominy Alderman ISBN-10 0807859907 ISBN-13 9780807859902 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 796.001 Year 2009 Publication Date 2009-12-31 Imprint The University of North Carolina Press Subtitle A Young Athlete's Guide to Mental Toughness Place of Publication Chapel Hill Country of Publication United States Illustrations 24 illustrations, 2 figs., index Pages 202 Audience Age 10-13 AU Release Date 2009-12-01 NZ Release Date 2009-12-01 US Release Date 2009-12-01 UK Release Date 2009-12-15 We've got this

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