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Profile of a Winner: Advanced Mental Training for Athletes
Robin S. Vealey
In Pursuit of Excellence: How to Win in Sport and Life through Mental Training (Second Edition)
Michael L. Sachs
Beyond Strength: Psychological Profiles of Olympic Athletes
William A. Freeman
Psychological Bases of Sport Injuries
Eric E. LaMott
Books and Videos
John Salmela
Psyched: Inner Views of Winning
Glyn C. Roberts
The Development of Sport Psychological Research in India
M.L. Kamlesh and Jitendra Mohan
The Total Runner: A Complete Mind-Body Guide to Optimal Performance
Robert Brustad
The Effect of Mental-Imagery Training on Performance Enhancement with 7-10-Year-Old Children
Zhang Li-Wei, Ma Qi-Wei, Terry Orlick, and Louise Zitzelsberger
Field studies investigating the potential benefit of mental-imagery training with young children have been lacking in the literature. The purpose of this investigation was to shed light on the appropriateness of mental training for children. Three groups of 7–10-year-old table tennis players participated in this study to assess the value of mental-imagery training, specifically with respect to children’s performance enhancement. The results indicated that children who used mental imagery experienced significantly greater improvement in the accuracy and technical quality of their shots than children in comparison groups. This study suggests that mental-imagery training, combined with videotaped images and relaxation, may be particularly promising for children.
Developmental Sports Career Investigations in Russia: A Post-Perestroika Analysis
Natalia B. Stambulova
This article deals with the psychological description of the sports career, including the history of the topic in Russian sport psychology before and during perestroika, two theoretical models of the sports career (synthetic and analytic), and conclusions drawn from the empirical research of sports careers of more than 200 Russian athletes representing different sports specializations and levels of achievement. Seven predictable crises of elite sports careers are considered from the perspective of typical problems and difficulties of athletes in each crisis, general symptoms and possible circumstances that reinforce crisis symptoms, ways to resolve a crisis, the influence of a crisis on sport performance, forms of “payment” for failure to resolve crises, and ways of providing psychological assistance to athletes in crisis periods of the sports career.