Synopsis "Peak Performance: Mindset Tools for Athletes (in English)"
PEAK PERFORMANCE: Mindset Tools for Athletes was created to help you identify conscious and unconscious factors in your life that affect athletic performance and to highlight strategies that can help take your performance in sports to the next level. Whether you are a runner trying to break the 50 second 400m or a football player trying to make the college football team as a freshman or an ice skater with the goal to make it in the Olympics, you need every bit of help you can to make your dream come true. This book will provide physical and mental strategies from athletic experts, coaches, and athletes to help you with this. This book explores the habits of peak performers, the actions peak performers take, and the strategies peak performers employ. It is a kit providing various tools you can use to perform at your best as an athlete. The number one goal in PEAK PERFORMANCE: Mindset Tools for Athletes is to provide examples from elite athletes, coaches, psychologists, personal trainers and more on how to perform at peak levels. There are no limits to what levels of performance we can achieve, and this book will provide an array of perspectives to train your mind and body as you strive toward peak performance as an athlete in both individual and team sports. The 25 expert-authors of this book come from all over the USA, Canada, Scotland, Ireland, Greece, Norway, Qatar, and Australia. They are professionals who are mindset and peak performance coaches, fitness and conditioning trainers, leadership, national team, and Olympic coaches, psychologists, PhDs, holistic performance coaches, gym owners, nutritionists, and more. The athletes who helped author this book have competed professionally in individual and team sports and have won medals in Division I College, National Championships, Olympics, Paralympics, and more. These athletes have competed or coached in various sports including weightlifting, track and field, water polo, taekwondo, triathlon, marathon, CrossFit, luge, soccer, football, lacrosse, baseball, figure skating, sled hockey, squash, diving, and more. As elite athletes and coaches, the authors in this book also include Olympic committee members, military combat veterans, Guinness World Record holders, hall of fame inductees, and more. The one thing these individuals have in common is that they all have a clear idea about peak performance, and these ideas can be applied to any situation in athletics and in life. The co-authors of this book include Logan Anderson, Luis Araya, David Arsenault, Norma Bastidas, Emily Buckley, Tarek Charaf, PhD, Robert Fegg, Sacha Fulton, PhD, Ryne Glazier, Jonathan Harris-Wright, Matt Helke, Bashir A. Ismail, Jennifer Kavanagh, Kristin Kaye, Jen Yung Lee, Scott MacDonald, Kurt Madden, Akari Nakahara, Solly Nowrozi, Maximus Redfield, Shari Reiniger, Jack Seversen, Kylie Tullipan, Julia Catherine Vincent, Adam Whisler, and Doron Willis.
