A Practical Guide to Sports Psychology

Play Stronger, Better, Happier

Arnold Leunes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2018
Icon Books (Verlag)
978-1-78578-327-2 (ISBN)

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Helps you become fitter and stronger, achieve your goals and enjoy exercise, with proven, expert techniques. This title is full of practical tips that can improve your performance whatever your sport or level of fitness, relieve stress and reduce anxiety about life's challenges, and make exercise a habit and feel better all round.

Improve your performance and achieve your goals.

Become fitter and stronger, relieve stress and anxiety, and recover from injury faster and more effectively with tips from sport psychology.

Whether you're looking to make exercise a habit or to perform better in your sport - whatever your level -this Practical Guide employs proven techniques to train your mind, help you to feel better and smash your exercise goals.

Dr Arnold LeUnes is Professor of Psychology at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. His main teaching areas are sport psychology and abnormal psychology, and his research focuses almost totally on sport-related issues. He has written a popular textbook on sport psychology and a reference work on psychological testing in sport psychology.

1. The field of sport psychology: an overview 2. Reinforcement and punishment
3. Arousal, anxiety, and their assessment
4. Treatment of sport anxiety
5. Optimism in sports and exercise
6. Mental toughness in sports
7. Attribution theory and locus of control
8. Leadership, group cohesion, and audience effects
9. Team building and goal setting
10. Aggression and violence in sports
11. Psychological assessment
12. Risk-sport athletes, injured athletes, black athletes
13. Youth sport
14. Women in sport
15. Exercise and fitness
Appendix A: A brief history of sport psychology
Appendix B: Prominent figures in sport and exercise psychology

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2017
Reihe/Serie	Practical Guide Series
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, unspecified
Verlagsort	Duxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	118 x 168 mm
Gewicht	141 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-78578-327-0 / 1785783270
ISBN-13	978-1-78578-327-2 / 9781785783272
Zustand	Neuware