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An athlete's guide to becoming as tough as nails, the Army way

In this hard-hitting, no-nonsense guide, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Bender offers athletes the proven mental-training techniques developed by the military to prepare warriors for battle. An accomplished athlete, award-winning coach, and former athletic director for the European Allied Forces, Bender used these same techniques to prepare 10,000 soldiers for Operation Desert Storm. His mission in Train Tough the Army Way is to shape the way athletes think in order to improve their performance in any sport.

Taking the practical, no-holds-barred approach one would expect from a military physical trainer, Bender tells readers how to get their minds right, prepare for competition, work effectively as team members, deal with distractions, hone a warrior's winnertake-all attitude, and more. By following the mental-conditioning techniques described in this book, readers will be poised to meet any athletic challenge, crush the competition, and have a great time doing it.

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This sports strategy book aims to be practical, to the point and motivating. The retired, but young, Army Lt Colonel Bender writes to athletes in a coach-like voice, providing hard-hitting, pragmatic advice on how to train. Bender used these strategies to hone the mental and physical toughness of 10,000 soldiers for Operation Desert Storm. An accomplished athlete in his own right, Bender received the highest possible score possible on the Army Physical Training Test 35 consecutive times; he served as the Instructor and Physical Training Coach for the US Army Command and General Staff College at Leavenworth, KS, where he was voted Instructor of the Year from among 65 fellow lieutenant colonels; he served as athletic director at Ford Ord, CA, and for Allied Forces Europe; he has 20+ years leading soldiers, 75+ seasons playing team sports and 25+ seasons coaching team sports. The book talks about "getting your mind right", how to prepare for competition, how to work effectively as a team member, how to deal with distractions, how to hone a warrior's winner-take-all attitude and more. The author has used these same strategies to prepare tens of thousands of soldiers for battle.

"Train Tough" is more concerned with how athletes think rather than what they think. If how they think is improved, athletes can define the details of what they think on their own. Shaping how athletes think in order to improve their performance in any sport is the mission of this book. To that end, each chapter includes military-inspired quotes, addresses a different aspect of the mental game and concludes with a Train Tough Challenge to help readers incorporate the chapter's lessons into their own training. This book offers athletes the very essence of the toughest mental-training techniques developed over centuries of training warriors for deadly serious encounters where proper mental and physical preparation means the difference between life and death. From high school to the pros, "Train Tough" aims to show athletes in all sports how to meet athletic challenges, crush the competition and have a great time in the process.
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Blast open a new way of thinking about sports and competition with the Train Tough Challenge

Whether you're into synchronized swimming or Golden Glove boxing, Train Tough the Army Way will motivate and train you to achieve ultimate supremacy in any and all sports you participate in. Based on the way soldiers entering combat are trained to think in order to emerge victorious, the Train Tough method is a unique, no-nonsense, and powerful sports strategy was conceived to hone your mental and physical toughness. Throughout, sidebar quotes and "Train Tough Challenges" prepare you to take on the competition and the world!

Train Tough the Army Way shows you how to:


-Achieve your best "mental game" ever, in any athletic endeavor
-Put 110 percent effort into your game and rise to levels beyond your physical gifts
-Think of winning as something that's yours to take something you deserve!
-Think like a warrior and win like a leader
-And much more!

With this "tough love" training manual, you'll learn how to face every challenge in your athletic, professional, and personal life with strength and courage.

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  • PublisherMcGraw-Hill
  • Publication date2002
  • ISBN 10 0071408088
  • ISBN 13 9780071408080
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages256
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