The Brave Athlete solves the 13 most common mental conundrums athletes face in their everyday training and in races.
YOUR BRAIN IS YOUR BEST FRIEND AND WORST ENEMY.
You may be physically ready to race, but will your mind by an asset or a liability? Left unchecked, rogue thoughts and feelings can derail you in seconds:
I wish I felt more like an athlete.
Tackling the flawed thinking around your athletic identity.
I don't think I can.
Building confidence and self-belief.
Setting goals is not your problem.
The secret of doing.
Other athletes seem tougher, happier, and more badass than me.
The power and peril of comparison.
I feel fat.
Dealing with body image in a world of athletes.
I don't cope well with injury.
How to respond to setbacks, big and small.
People are worried about me.
Exercise dependence and the incessant need to do more.
I don't like leaving my comfort zone.
How to cross the fear barrier.
When the going gets tough, the tough leave me behind.
Resisting the urge to quit.
I need to harden the f*ck up.
Learning to embrace the suck.
I keep screwing up.
Developing Jedi concentration skills to become a better athlete.
I don't handle pressure well.
How to cope with stress, anxiety, and expectations on race day.
The Brave Athlete will give you tools to overcome negative patterns of thinking and feeling so you can be faster and happier in sport and life. It's the missing manual for your brain, holding everything you need to know to unleash your true potential for training and racing. Using a potent combination of science, practical experience, frank talk, and failure-inspired wisdom, Dr. Simon Marshall and Lesley Paterson get down and dirty to solve the problems of real athletes.
He's a sport psychology expert and she's a world champion triathlete. Together, they offer you a veritable arsenal of mental skills. You'll get the secrets on how the brain deals with unwanted thoughts and feelings and what you can do about them. Once you identify the mental gremlins undermining your performance, you will learn practical solutions to help you take control of your brain and rise to the occasion-whether it's for the everyday demands of training or your biggest race of the season.
Marshall and Paterson ditch the clichéd methods of taming the athlete's mind and bring to life the latest research in neuroscience and psychology. This is your hands-on guide to the mental strategies that actually work in real life.
Regardless of the level you train or compete at, The Brave Athlete shows you how to feel the fear and jump anyway, opening the door for you to enjoy your sport with more confidence, grit, and gratitude.
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