Athletic Performance

Whether you are a seasoned athlete or just getting started with a fitness program, Nutrition and Athletic Performance is your guide to success. Discover what athletes from every sport around the world have been using to set personal bests. Learn what to eat before, during and after activity to yield the best performance. Attain freedom from costly supplements. Gain better recovery times from activities. And finally learn the truth about carbohydrates, fats, and proteins.

Good coaching is a skill that requires a depth of understanding and plenty of practice if it is to deliver its astonishing potential. This extensively revised and expanded new audio edition of Coaching for Performance clearly explains the principles of coaching and illustrates them with examples of high performance from business and sport. It continues to follow the GROW sequence (Goals, Reality, Options, Will) and clarifies the process and practice of coaching.

Would it surprise you to learn that to solve a seemingly unsolvable problem, you need to get up and leave the room? A walk in the woods will help you finish your novel? Humming can make you a better tennis player? Or completely giving up is the way to succeed? In The Breakout Principle, the...

A behind-the-scenes sage of the golf world and renowned sports psychologist reveals her methods to achieving elite performance in sports, work, and life, drawing from her experience with top PGA Tour earners and championship winners. Over the past twenty-five years Julie Elion has been the...

Most people associate performance management with the annual review, which is universally dreaded by employees, management, and HR professionals alike. It's a cookie-cutter, fear-based, top-down approach that emphasizes negatives over positives and stifles healthy career conversations. It's never been shown to motivate anyone to do anything but try to avoid it, but nobody feels like they have any alternative. Tamra Chandler has one - and it works.

The meat only diet is quite self-explanatory, but there are a few gray areas that you can work with to create a suitable healthy diet for yourself. You will find that there are a few weeks of transitioning away from the traditional foods that you like to enjoy, including the carbs, sugars and even produce, but once the body adjusts and you see some of the great meals that you are able to enjoy on this plan, you will be wondering why you didn't try this out before. The Carnivore Diet is going to focus on keeping things simple and taking us back to our roots.

The ketogenic diet is gaining increasing popularity. And with good reason: it is easy to implement, is not complex and is highly effective. It has been well researched and has produced consistent results since the 1920s. The Ketogenic Diet for Athletes explores the remarkable amount of evidence of health and performance benefits derived from the diet then specifically applies that to athletes.

Are you looking for unique ways to "get into the game"? To enhance your training and find focus? You aren't alone. Increasingly, athletes and coaches are incorporating mindfulness practices into their training. That's because mindfulness can help you lower your stress levels, connect with the moment, and mentally bounce back after setbacks. So whether you're a sports enthusiast or a professional athlete, mindfulness can also help you deal with physical aspects of training, such as fatigue, aches, pains, injury, burnout, and exhaustion.

You're probably eating plant-based foods, like pea protein or nuts thinking you are getting the entire range of proteins needed by your body; however, you might not know that you are often missing an essential amino acid known as lysine and consequently, you're not assimilating the right amount of proteins. You must be prepared in advance to guarantee you obtain the amounts of adequate healthy proteins, vitamins, iron, and calcium B-12, not as easily found in vegan diets as it with omnivorous diets containing meat, rich of these nutrients.

Start firing the stove and prepare 100 delicious dishes of high-protein to power you. This Plаnt Bаѕеd High Prоtеin Cооkbооk: Nutrition Guide with 100 Delicious Recipes (including 60-days meal plan) is an outstanding audiobook for athletes, body builders, and all plant-based diet lovers. Discover in this unique and simple cookbook, all-natural plant-based protein recipes that taste good and improve your health. Plant-based proteins are a healthier alternative to animal protein, more nutritious, and more environmentally friendly.

Now, for the first time, athletes from all sports and skill levels can easily learn and master the same Sport Psychology Training Skills previously only available to professional and Olympic-level athletes. Own the Game will provide you the hands-on tools necessary to increase your self-confidence, focus, concentration, and poise -ultimately allowing you to play to your highest athletic level!