Mental Training for Peak Performance, Revised & Updated Edition Revised Edition by Ungerleider, Steven

by Steven Ungerleider

Bollettieri In this brand-new edition, updated withmaterial on todays best athletes, a top sports psychologist reveals the mental strategies champions use to win in a variety of sportsfrom cycling and skiing to golf and tennis Mental Training for Peak Performance teaches you that sweat isnt enough. Before you can win on the track, court, links, or slopes, you have to win in your head. Revised and updated for the first time since 1996, famed sports psychologist Steven Ungerleider, PhD, looks at the mental aspect of sports performance today, revealing the mind exercises champion athletes use to outshine the competition. The book provides detailed descriptions of mental techniques that work, explaining how build confidence with affirmations and self-talk clear your mind with breathing and meditation maximize performance with mental snapshots improve your game with guided imagery use visual rehearsal to fine-tune your style tap in to the power of dreams With a new foreword by tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, who has trained Andre Agassi, the Williams sisters, and many other star players, this is an excellent resource and guide for athletes at every level who hope to gain a competitive edge through mental training.

Genres: Fitness, Psychology, Nonfiction, Self Help

Paperback

First published February 15, 1996

About the author

Dr. Steven Ungerleider, an author of six books, completed his undergraduate studies in psychology at the University of Texas, Austin, where he also competed as a collegiate gymnast. He holds masters and doctorate degrees from the University of Oregon, a post doc from the University of California, and is a licensed psychologist at Integrated Research Services, Incorporated in Eugene, Oregon.
Since 1984, he has served on the United States Olympic Committee Sport Psychology Registry and has consulted with a number of international sport federations.
Ungerleiders' books include;
• Beyond Strength, (McGraw-Hill, 1991 with co-author Dr. Jacqueline Golding)
• Quest For Sucess, (WRS/Spence publications, 1994).
• Mental Training For Peak Performance, First Edition, his third book (Rodale Press, 1996) was named to the book of the month club selection for Men's Health Magazine.
• Mental Training, Second Edition, was released in 2000 (Rodale Press).
• Faust's Gold: Inside The East German Doping Machine,(St Martin's Press, 2001)
• Culture Education And Drug-Free Sport, (Koke Printing Company, May 2008)
In the early 1990's, Ungerleider was invited to join an international team of researchers to examine the East German doping files, monitor the criminal trials and interview hundreds of witnesses for his fourth book entitled: FAUST'S GOLD: Inside the East German Doping Machine (St Martin's Press).
In December, 2001, Faust's Gold was honored as top "sports book of the year" by Runner's World/Rodale Press. Ungerleider's work has been reviewed in Elle, Longevity, Outside, Runner's World, Allure, New York Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Herald, Dallas Morning News, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker Magazine, Sports Illustrated, the International Herald Tribune, People Magazine, Forbes Magazine, the Washington Post, Newsweek and National Public Radio.
Ungerleider's East German Doping research is the subject of a one-hour documentary by the Canadian Film Company, as well as a one-hour special by ABC's 20/20, and NOS of Dutch Television.
Ungerleider's work and his GDR archives were the subject of a PBS documentary entitled; DOPING FOR GOLD, which was nominated for an emmy award.
Prior to the 2006 Torino Winter Games, Ungerleider was appointed to the International Society for Olympic Historians (ISOH). He has served as a founding trustee of Global Sports Development (GSD) which encourages mentoring and fair play at all levels of sport. GSD is the sponsoring agency of the Culture, Education, Drug-Free Sport and Ethics (CESEP) program. Ungerleider has also served on the education and ethics committee of WADA; World Anti-Doping agency and was recenly appointed to the national advisory panel of the American Psychological Association.
In 2009, Ungerleider was asked to chair The Texas Program in Sports and Media (TPSM) at the University of Texas, Austin. This program under the umbrella of the UT school of communication will house the largest repository of sports research material including a major International Olympic collection, an East German Doping collection, and all files related to the recent BALCO drug scandal. Ungerleider is presently working on a manuscript that will articulate many components of this unique collection.
Ungerleider is the proud father of two very accomplished daughters: one a physician, now doing her residency in internal medicine, and the youngest a lawyer/MBA practicing commercial law in San Francisco.
Ungerleider will be attending his 12th Olympic Games in London 2012 as a trustee of Global Sports Development working in collaboration With the London Cultural Olympiad.

Reviews

[Tomek · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boils down to three things: think positive, visualize success, and stay calm through mindfulness. Just saved you a lot of reading.

[Folkert Wierda · Rating 2 out of 5]

I cannot recommend reading this book. Apart from the style that tends to build in "name-throwing" and stressing the academic titles and sports accomplishments of researchers, the book presents very little useful information for athletes, trainers or for sports researchers. The first half of the book can be summarized as: Imaging is important. The second half of the book provides some shallow stories of how a selected group of mostly well-known athletes trained and competed. I know that the topic of mental training and preparing is crucial in ports, but this book does not bring that home.

[Aaron · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an good read. I am very interested in performance psychology, and next to Soft Wired, this was one of the first books I read on the subject of brain plasticity and performance visualization. I just purchased The Rise of Superman, so getting into that one next.
I'm trying to find anything on using visualization to help behavioral / motor performance. Suggestions?

[Beccaliest · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting concepts, took some cool thoughts and techniques away from it, had one or two mind blowing moments but it was not my absolute favourite

[Allison · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thought this was an interesting perspective. The chapter about breathing, visualization and positive self talk I found helpful. The athletes are a little dated but their mental preparedness tips were interesting for cycling. I didn't read the other sports.

[Dianna LeFevre · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing new here.

[Colin Landals · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good introduction to Sports Psych and also gives you some historical basis for the development of the field.