This is the first book of its kind to reveal the link between physical fitness and psychological well-being. Dr. Larry Leith, renowned exercise scientist, shares with the reader how exercise can fight depression, ease stress, and brighten one's mood. The book includes many practical strategies designed to improve the reader's enjoyment of and adherence to an exercise program.

Exercising Your Way to Better Mental Health: Fight Depression and Alleviate Stress Through Exercise

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Leith, Larry M.

Exercise & Fitness

Fitness Info Tech,West Virginia University

Tennis (Sport Psychology Library)

Sports & Outdoors

Van Raalt, Judy L.

Miscellaneous

This user-friendly manual focuses on the physical and the mental skills needed to handle challenging tennis situations with a cool head and a winning strategy. Specifically, the book addresses such crucial mental skills as building confidence, managing anxiety, improving concentration, working with your partner(s), and more. Each chapter includes drills visualizations and exercises that will help the reader enhance game performance and enjoyment. Anyone who loves the unique mental intensity of tennis will enjoy this book.

Sport Psychology Library: Gymnastics

Cogan, Karen D.

Individual Sports

If you've ever watched a champion make that impossible three-point shot in the game's final seconds, you know that the mind game is fundamental in the sport of basketball. Concentration, teamwork, relaxation, confidence, and a sense of fair play are the mental skills that make a great all-around basketball player. Former legendary Louisiana State University basketball coach Dale Brown and highly acclaimed sport psychologist Kevin Burke team up as co-authors to provide readers with proven sport psychology techniques to assist players, coaches, and parents in a player's development on the court.

Sport Psychology Library: Basketball

Burke, Kevin L.

Basketball

If you are a triathlete, coach, or someone interested in participating in an upcoming triathlon, Sport Psychology Library: Triathlon holds many answers to establishing and maintaining the mental discipline needed for what is certainly one of the most grueling and psychologically challenging events in all of sport. Guided by the expertise of Dr. Joe Baker and Dr. Whitney Sedgwick-both experienced, successful athletes and triathlon competitors - Sport Psychology Library: Triathlon summarizes current research and offers invaluable mental exercises to improve mental performance during triathlon training and competition.

Triathlon (Sport Psychology Library)

Baker, Joe

An indispensable book for the serious and dedicated bowler, this book is designed to push any bowling athlete to the highest level and enable professionals and elite amateurs to perform at their peak. Coauthored by sport psychologist Dr. Eric S. Lasser, Hall of Fame coach Fred Borden, and Team USA Head Coach Jeri Edwards, Sport Psychology Library: Bowling - The Handbook of Bowling Psychology provides bowlers with the specific psychological strategies and exercises necessary for that sound mental game, including grace under pressure and an impenetrable focus. Twenty chapters each address key mental aspects of this highly technical and demanding sport. The book is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what it takes to compete at bowling's top level. An invaluable resource for coaches, parents, and bowlers at any stage of their career, this landmark book offers wisdom for life outside the center as well as a blueprint for success on the lanes.

Sport Psychology Library: Bowling: The Handbook of Bowling Psychology

Lasser, Eric S.

Through an effective combination of historical research and personal interviews, 100 Pioneers: African-Americans Who Broke Color Barriers in Sport offers compelling portraits of the dedicated athletes who broke color barriers on college campuses and in professional sports all around the country. These engaging accounts detail the adversities they faced and the victories they achieved. Part 1 includes well-known figures such as Jackie Robinson and Tony Dungy, as well as other, lesser-known pioneers in professional baseball, football, basketball, hockey, tennis, golf, and boxing. Part 2 presents the inspiring stories of college coaches, athletics directors, and student-athletes who were the first African-Americans to fill their respective roles. Part 3 highlights the impressive feats of African-American athletes accomplished on the world stage of the Olympic Games.

100 Pioneers: African-Americans Who Broke Color Barriers in Sport (Leaders in Sport (Fit))

Politics & Social Sciences

Lapchick, Richard

Social Sciences

100 Trailblazers: Great Women Athletes Who Opened Doors for Future Generations shines an admiring spotlight on the accomplishments of women in sport whose life stories are important but not necessarily well known. Research and personal interviews reveal the groundbreaking work of effective administrators, dedicated coaches, determined reformers, and spirited athletes who excelled in tennis, golf, skating, swimming and diving, gymnastics, track and field, soccer, softball and baseball, basketball, volleyball, and motor sports. These fascinating profiles chronicle the achievements of women who overcame innumerable obstacles, broke down walls, and opened doors for future generations.

100 Trailblazers: Great Women Athletes Who Opened Doors for Future Generations (Leaders in Sport (Fit))

Biographies & Memoirs

The New Sport Management Reader provides readers with a selection of the state-of-the-art research and new conceptual thinking in the field of sport management by a diverse and prominent group of researchers. It is the first anthology to situate sport management within the broader frameworks of sport sociology and cultural studies, a process already begun in general business studies. Sport, like other phenomena we find in social life, is subject to the inequalities of race, gender, economics, and politics. Each of the chapters in this book rejects the purity and neutrality of sport; as such they add to our understanding of sport and the organizations that deliver it. . . . If we use the ideas of critical theory and expand the geographic scope of our research, we will be able to improve an expanding and rapidly growing area of study. -from the Foreword by Trevor Slack, associate professor, University of Alberta

The New Sport Management Reader

Business & Money

Industries

The Cultural Turn in Sport Psychology brings to bear a series of rich insights from cultural studies that demand ways of opening the study of sport psychology to issues of transnational, gendered, and sexual identities; new methodologies; the nature of expertise and professional practice; and the basis of the science of sport psychology itself. In a global world with increasingly complex issues around issues of embodiment and the rapidly changing and expanding nature of the sporting enterprise, these broadened perspectives on sport psychology are both enlightening and valuable. -from the Foreword by Patricia Vertinsky, cultural historian, University of British Columbia.

The Cultural Turn in Sport Psychology

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