- Introduction and guidance
- Conclusion
- Introduction
- 1 Sporting success
- 2 Your beliefs about sporting ability
- 3 The anatomy of a world record
- 4 Champions talk
- 5 Coaching and psychology in sports performance
- 6 What conversations do coaches and psychologists have?
- 7 This session’s quiz
- 8 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 One sport or many?
- 2 The making of an ice princess
- 3 What does excellent child coaching look like?
- 4 Maintaining enthusiasm in a professional sport
- 5 What does ‘fun’ mean in children’s sport?
- 6 Play the ‘Medal Quest’ online game
- 7 This session’s quiz
- 8 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 How fast do teenagers grow?
- 2 Why being born in May has its advantages
- 3 What about brain maturation?
- 4 A psychologist’s experience of working with teenagers
- 5 Confidence and emotions in teenagers
- 6 I could do that: role models
- 7 This session’s quiz
- 8 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 What drives international athletes?
- 2 Comparing top coaches
- 3 What about coaching individual-based sports?
- 4 How would you recruit a team?
- 5 This session’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Revisiting your attitudes towards success
- 2 Your experience of ‘mindset’
- 3 Where do beliefs about ability come from?
- 4 Making it early in sport
- 5 Sports psychologists explain their work
- 6 Psychological characteristics explained
- 7 This session’s quiz
- 8 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Chris Hoy’s story
- 2 The art of performing under pressure
- 3 Fear and anxiety
- 4 Managing your emotions and anxiety
- 5 Seeing challenge as an opportunity
- 6 Emphasising the familiar: pre-competition routines
- 7 Self-talk before important sporting moments
- 8 Self-talk before penalty taking
- 9 This session’s quiz
- 10 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 How do coaches design practice sessions?
- 2 Richard Bailey’s ‘coaching commandments’
- 3 Quality not quantity of practice
- 4 Richard Bailey’s other commandments – how to coach
- 5 Final thoughts: a fresh approach?
- 6 This session’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Where next in coaching and exercise?
- 2 Recovering from intense exercise
- 3 Wearable technology
- 4 How much can we trust what journalists say?
- 5 How to evaluate a claim or innovation
- 6 Examining ‘The filter that spots trainability’
- 7 Examining ‘Tools to warm up the mind’
- 8 Thinking about where your sport and/or coaching is going
- 9 This session’s quiz
- 10 Summary
- 11 Where next for developing your future?
- Tell us what you think
- References
- Acknowledgements
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