Becoming a True Champion (eBook)

Achieving Athletic Excellence from the Inside Out

Kirk Mango (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
264 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1407-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Becoming a True Champion offers a path to achieving athletic excellence, longevity, and dignity through the values and hard work that once distinguished athletes as true role models. Providing an antidote to images of misbehaving athletes, this book guides readers through the ethics and standards that will set them apart both on and off the field.

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Today, aspiring athletes have to work harder and be more dedicated than athletes of previous generations who did not have to contend with the messages of a popular culture that promotes winning at all costs and implicitly condones shortcuts to winning. Many of todays athletic superstars glorify and demonstrate cheating and illicit, destructive conduct. Whether off the field antics or on the field cheating through the use of illegal performance-enhancing drugs typify an athletes lack of personal values, the bad behavior displayed by many in a broad range of sports is hard to escape. The result is that too many such negative role models and influences are out there, diverting todays developing competitors down a seductive path to failure rather than upward to excellence and lasting, honest achievement. Becoming a True Champion: Achieving Athletic Excellence from the Inside Out fills a critical need by speaking in a frank and direct voice directly to todays aspiring athletes about these crucial, controversial issues and the personal choices they face. At the same time the book presents them with the antidote to these negative influences-the fundamental values, attitudes and concepts, both mental and practical, that support and lead to athletic excellence. A true champion is an athlete with the specific qualities of character, mental discipline, and physical skills necessary to generate and keep increasing athletic excellence and success throughout his or her career. These qualities can be learned and developed; they need not be inborn. Becoming a True Champion goes deeply into each quality to show developing athletes how adopting it directly affects and enhances athletic performance, longevity, and dignity. Through relevant examples, inspiring stories, and a personalized approach, the book shows athletes how to avoid the many pitfalls, and overcome the inevitable obstacles, so common in todays sports culture.

Autor

Kirk Mango was a collegiate Division I National Champion and gold medalist on the still rings in 1979, defeating several Olympians to earn this honor. The previous year Kirk had won the silver medal on this event in the 1978 Division I National Championships. He was selected as a collegiate All-American in both 1978 and 1979 and to the present day still holds the Northern Illinois University school record for the still rings event. Kirk is also a three-time Hall of Fame athlete and was selected in 2009 as Number 8 on the list of "Top 50 Huskies of All Time" by the NIU Northern Star. He has been a high school teacher for 32 years, coaching for 17 of them. He has coached girls' gymnastics teams to three conference championships, four regional championships, one sectional championship and three Elite-Eight IHSA (Illinois High School Association) state championship competitions. Kirk has also been a member of the Illinois Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, which is dedicated to the promotion of the quality of life through fitness and wellness. Daveda Lamont is an author, ghostwriter and developmental editor with many books to her credit. This is her fourth book and third as co-author. In 2000-2001, Daveda served as a contract editor for Powered, Inc., editing and co-writing courses for the corporate online universities of clients such as Barnes & Noble, Dell, VISA, and Bloomberg.com. Her developmental editing experience includes fine art appreciation, film and music instruction, artist memoirs, creative nonfiction, nutrition, alternative healthcare, family financial planning, consumer investing and finance, investment risk and reward, online commerce, and various self-improvement subjects.

Inhalt

Foreword by Nadia ComaneciMessage to Aspiring Athletes by Phil WunderlichAcknowledgmentsA ChampionIntroduction: Sports on the EdgeThe Code of a True ChampionSection 1: The Principles of a True Champion –Someone Only in Legends? Ch. 1- It Starts with You: Realizing Your Potential and Creating SuccessCh. 2- Do You Know Where You’re Going?: Goals—The Choice is YoursCh. 3- The Burning Within: Desire—The Fuel that Drives You to Move Beyond Nomal LimitationsCh. 4- Five Letters That Spell Success: The CDSPH Principle—What it Really MeansCh. 5- What You Do Speaks Volumes: Character and Integrity—The Road Less TraveledCh. 6- An Unrewarding Path: Cheating—The Road to NowhereCh. 7- A Championship State of Mind: Core Attitudes and a Mindset for AchievementCh. 8- Separate yet Related: Mindsets for Training and CompetitionExpectation from PracticeSection 2: Building the Dream – The Training ProcessCh. 9- From the Ground Up: Fundamentals for SuccessCh. 10- Pieces and Parts: Breaking it DownCh. 11- A Method above the Rest: A Question of Quality or QuantityCh. 12- An Essential Piece of the Puzzle: Vital Concepts of ConditioningCh. 13- Simplifying the Training Process: The Circle of Achievement Ch. 14- A Blank Slate to Work With: Circle of Achievement WorksheetsIndividualitySection 3: Putting it all Together – A True StoryCh. 15- Mission Impossible: The GoalCh. 16- Take a Walk in My Shoes: Club Training and Gymnastics CampCh. 17- Putting It to the Test: Senior YearCh. 18- The Outcome Says It All: Final TestsCh. 19- When All Is Said and Done: ConclusionWho Am I? The Libero CodeYour Greatest Gift to YourselfReferences and NotesAbout the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.5.2012
• Co-Autor: Daveda Lamont
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fitness / Aerobic / Bodybuilding
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-1407-4 / 1442214074
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-1407-1 / 9781442214071