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The New Toughness Training for Sports: Mental Emotional Physical Conditioning from One of the World's Premier Sports Psychologists

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This is a pretty good, easy read. It doesn't hit you with a lot of scientific mumbo-jumbo that you'll never understand. Instead, it gives you a basic, common-sense approach to improving the mental aspect of your game. The author shows how the physical world and the emotional world are related, and how being stronger mentally can help you perform better in your sport.

It is not geared towards any one sport, but rather it is geared to athletes in general.

The 'new' version has neglected some of the best parts of the original. The discussion of energy is good in the "new" one but great in the original; the discussion of energy is ok in the new but great in the old; in particular the detailed red and blue zones of the IPS are nowhere to be found in the new version. Jim Loehr is a sports psyche genius and he first book appears to be his best.

I bought it because it was noted that people that bought a book that I REALLY got alot out of (The Mental Edge) also bought this one.

After reading the other book, this was a let-down. It was not as concise as the others.

This book is a very useful tool for any aspiring athlete. Some of it is obvious and some it is quarky but altogether it is very useful. And I'm certain that if one applies these techniques you will see big gains. This book helped me understand my emotions as they relate to my sport. And it gave me ways to be a tough thinker and a actor. Everyone knows its important to try and be tough but not everyone knows how. This book has just about everything you need to know to take you game to the next level.

If your short on time skip through and just read chapters 1,7,9,11, 14 and 15. Theres 18 chapters total.

This little book read like a novel. It helped me understand better what I already knew and opened my eyes on aspects I was not aware of. The principles and philosophy described apply not only to sports, but to life in general. Anybody who has ambitions beyond sitting on the couch watching TV all day/night should read this book.

All I can say is that my husband a college baseball coach of 35 yrs thought this book was so important he sent it to the Cubs trainer and the pitching coach for the Padres!

This book provides some great "food for thought" for practitioners of any sport, be it a team or an individual sport. You do not have to believe every word or make all the written exercises the author proposes; just read and think. At least, you will approach the "mental game" in a new way.

It was pretty good, but there was way too much psycho-babble. The toughness training assignments were helpful. It seems like if you followed his recommendations exactly you would improve your mental performance. However, the book did seem repetitive (each chapter seemed to be about the same thing as the last).

It was pretty good, but there was way too much psycho-babble. The toughness training assignments were helpful. It seems like if you followed his recommendations exactly you would improve your mental performance. However, the book did seem repetitive (each chapter seemed to be about the same thing as the last).

Extremely helpful "how to" book for becoming mentally tough. Unlike other sports pysche books, this one tells you very specific things to do to improve concentration, focus and most important, resiliency. Think of this as a cookbook of recipes for creating the appropriate mental response at the right time.