Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Item may be missing bundled media.

Seller Inventory # CSIV.0999833006.A

Contact seller

Report this item

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sport Visualization for the Elite Athlete: Build Mental Imagery Skills to Enhance Athletic Performance
Publisher: Top Shape Publishing LLC
Publication Date: 2018
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0999833006
ISBN 13: 9780999833001
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

Sport visualization skills, the ability to create mental images of a perfect athletic performance in your mind, are extremely powerful tools for helping individuals achieve their athletic best. Legendary sports figures like Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Michael Jordan, Jerry West, Ted Williams, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Phelps, Launi Meili, Gustav Weder, Muhammad Ali, Pele, Ronaldinho and countless Olympic champions have all used mental imagery practice to improve their game because it indeed creates an advantage that adds an edge. If they did not think mental imagery worked then most elite athletes would not use it.

Using mental visualization as a training technique invariably results in much better athletic performances so elite athletes everywhere now practice it. Seasoned athletes train to form highly detailed mental images and run-throughs of their entire athletic performance while vividly engaging all their senses in their mental rehearsal. The very best learn how to combine their knowledge of the sports venue, including their athletic skills and game strategies, with their mental rehearsals for excellence.

Science has discovered that intently visualizing mental images of sports activities and actually doing them activates similar neural pathways in the brain. Because the brain doesn’t distinguish between doing something and just thinking about doing it, mentally rehearsing an athletic skill can activate similar brain regions and neural pathways just as well as physical practice does. Refreshing that mental imagery over and over again is then like carving a groove into your nervous system, enabling your actions to become more automatic. This is a boon to athletes who are imagining great skillfulness. Done consistently, visualizing perfect athletic actions in vivid detail can definitely help you reliably “hard-wire” the mental blueprints of a great performance in your brain. Said differently, imagining yourself doing those movements in an ideal fashion will help you become better at their execution. Scientists also believe that the neural pathways of the brain more commonly used develop thicker myelin sheaths that speed cellular communication, and then become the preferred or dominant connection routes for nerve signals. If you want to forge really excellent neural circuits for athletics, you are therefore advised to repeatedly mentally visualize your best performances.

Athletes practice visualization because they want to condition their mind in such a way that the body automatically behaves the way they want it to without effort, which can take their performance to the next level of excellence. Among other things, athletes commonly use visualization efforts to improve specific skills such as timing an appropriate response of some type, hitting or catching a ball, making a turn, jumping better or running faster, or moving their hands, legs or other parts of their body in a certain ideal way particular to their sport. Mental imagery practice can also be used to master emotional issues such as boosting motivation, enhancing your confidence, and reducing performance anxiety.

Visualization practice helps prepare athletes for real competition. It can and should constitute an active mental rehearsal of how you want things to be in terms of your real performance. By regularly creating certain vivid scenarios in your mind, which your brain interprets as a real situation, you can skillfully prepare yourself with the appropriate expert response when it comes time to make those experiences happen. The magic is that sports visualization practice can therefore take you to the next level of competition because forming mental images in your mind will help construct mental and physiological schema that can be reproduced, almost automatically, in actual life.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Store Description

About us Our Mission: Goodwill changes lives every day by empowering people to increase their independence and reach their potential through education, health and employment. Our services include: Tuition-free, charter high school for grades 9-12 for students experiencing barriers to education. Tuition-free, charter high schools for adults that focuses on removing barriers to education by offering students flexible scheduling, tutoring, life coaching, child care, transportation, college credits and other resources. Direct hiring for Goodwill jobs, especially for job-seekers with employment barriers like a disability, criminal history or limited education. Job readiness, training and placement for individuals with barriers. Pre-natal and maternal health, parenting skills, child development and school readiness. Connections to resources for transportation, housing, child care, financial literacy and more. A child development center and preschool for children ages six weeks to five years.

Visit Seller's Storefront

Seller's business information

Goodwill of Central and Southern Indiana
1635 West Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46222, U.S.A.

Sale & Shipping Terms

Terms of Sale

Right of withdrawal

If you are a consumer you can withdraw from the contract in accordance with the following. Consumer means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession.

Information regarding the right of withdrawal

Statutory right to withdraw

You have the right to withdraw from this contract within 14 days without giving any reason.

The withdrawal period will expire after 14 days from the day on which you acquire, or a third party other than the carrier and indicated by you acquires, physical possession of the last good or the last lot or piece.

To exercise the right of withdrawal, electronically fill in and submit a clear statement on our website, under "My Purchases" in "My Account". We will communicate to you an acknowledgement of receipt of such a withdrawal on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) without delay.

To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.

Effects of withdrawal

If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (except for the supplementary costs arising if you chose a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us).

We may make a deduction from the reimbursement for loss in value of any goods supplied, if the loss is the result of unnecessary handling by you.

We will make the reimbursement without undue delay, and not later than 14 days after the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract.

We will make the reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.

We may withhold reimbursement until we have received the goods back, or you have supplied evidence of having sent back the goods, whichever is the earliest.

You shall send back the goods or hand them over to clickgoodwillbooks, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A., without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which you communicate your withdrawal from this contract to us. The deadline is met if you send back the goods before the period of 14 days has expired. You will have to bear the direct cost of returning the goods. You are only liable for any diminished value of the goods resulting from the handling other than what is necessary to establish the nature, characteristics and functioning of the goods.

Exceptions to the right of withdrawal

The right of withdrawal does not apply to:

The delivery of newspapers, journals or magazines with the exception of subscription contracts; and
The supply of digital content which is not supplied on a tangible medium (e.g. on a CD or DVD) if you accepted when you placed your order that we could start to deliver it, and that you could not withdraw once delivery had started.

Shipping Terms

Shipping rates within U.S.A.

Shipping rates within U.S.A.
Order quantity	5 to 8 business days	3 to 6 business days
First item	� 2.96	� 7.05

Delivery times are set by sellers and vary by carrier and location. Orders passing through Customs may face delays and buyers are responsible for any associated duties or fees. Sellers may contact you regarding additional charges to cover any increased costs to ship your items.