Performance Training

Written by a Sports Performance Professional, Certified Mental Training Coach, AND Parent of a Division 1 Athlete. Teen athletes navigate a challenging world, balancing high expectations and pressures. Mental toughness is their secret weapon. This book explores its role beyond the playing field, addressing academic stress, social complexities, and personal development. Discover: Specialized Guide: Tailored for adolescent athletes and parents, recognizing their unique challenges. Practical Strategies: Equip young athletes with actionable techniques for real-life application. Comprehensive ...

Next Level Sales Coaching offers insights to sales executives, customer-service managers, business owners, and other professional managers on strategies to overcome common challenges in building a "best in class" sales team. Sales performance can impact a company's revenue, profits, market share, and employee retention. The question is, how do you positively impact those goals? The answer is simple: Sales improve when your team is better trained, coached, and supported.

How to make sure your training gets results Learning, and the hoped-for subsequent behaviour change is a process, and yet we focus on the training event thinking that if we can only get that right, everything else will be wonderful. This is no more true for training than it is for a wedding. The quality of the wedding ceremony does not predict the quality of the subsequent marriage. There is a lot more to do after the ceremony, and there is also a lot more to do after the training event to get to 'happily ever after'. Sadly, very few people do what it takes to get even reasonable results ...

What if the next performance revolution isn’t physical, but neurological? Neurohacked dives deep into the science—and the consequences—of our obsession with cognitive enhancement. From smart drugs like Modafinil and microdosed LSD to brain-training apps, electrical stimulation, and genetically modified memory mice, this eye-opening book examines how far we’re willing to go to upgrade our minds. Blending cutting-edge neuroscience with real-world case studies, Neurohacked explores the hidden trade-offs behind modern performance culture. Do stimulants really make us smarter? Can sleep ...

A breakthrough program for triathletes - beginner, intermediate, and advanced - showing how to balance training intensity to maximize performance - from a fitness expert and elite coach. Cutting-edge research has proven that triathletes and other endurance athletes experience their greatest performance when they do 80 percent of their training at low intensity and the remaining 20 percent at moderate to high intensity.

Mortality suddenly on the distant radar? Approaching middle age? Family man, but more family than man? It was either do something big or have an affair! I chose the former, and it put me in the best place. I was approaching fifty, had 2 kids, a nice house by the sea, my career was going well and I was happily married. Or was at the time of writing but that is another story and another book. I was also getting larger and working more and could feel the impact on my health both mental and physical. This is my story. I went from an arbitrary exercise regime and excuses to completing an Ironman...

Whether you’re chasing a personal best or gearing up for your very first ultra, The Ultra Marathon Plan is your go-to guide for running stronger, longer, and smarter. Packed with practical tips and cutting-edge science, this isn’t just another sports nutrition book—it’s a deep dive into the advanced fueling strategies, recovery techniques, and performance bio-hacks used by elite endurance athletes. Now, they’re yours too, whether you're a seasoned runner or just starting out. Inside, you'll learn how to: Fuel your body for long-distance endurance Enhance oxygen levels for maximum ...

Want to learn how to make people laugh out loud? How to Make People Laugh is a book that targets regular comedians, such as you and me. It does not try to transform you into a professional comedian. Instead, it puts comedy in the spotlight of everyday life. With this book, you will learn techniques that you can easily incorporate at parties or even in regular banter with friends and colleagues.

No more information dumps! Map It helps you turn training requests into projects that make a real difference. You'll learn how to: Help the client identify what's really causing the performance problem. Determine the role (if any!) of training. Create realistic activities that help people practice what they need to do, not just show what they know. Choose the best format for each activity -- online, projected to a group, on paper, as a small-group activity, over email... Provide each activity at the best time -- in the workflow, available on demand, spaced over time... Let people pull the ...

Discover the untold training philosophy of Arnold Schwarzenegger—one built not on brute intensity, but on intelligent cycles of effort, recovery, and adaptation. Iron Cycles reveals how the world’s most iconic bodybuilder trained across eras, injuries, and shifting goals to build muscle that lasted—and how you can do the same. From his raw beginnings in Austrian basements to the punishing Olympia years, movie sets, surgeries, political office, and beyond, this book lays out the system Arnold followed: strategic training phases designed to evolve with your age, lifestyle, and ...

If you are planning an HPDE Track day and wondering how to prepare look no further. With so many choices available all over the internet, this guide will help reduce your research time spent looking for what you need to know for what’s best for you. It is written by a certified Instructor to help prospective students avoid the fluff written by unqualified people on community sites. • How to choose an HPDE organization to run with • How to prepare for the event. • How to prepare your car, the key to safety and enjoyment-A checklist • What you need to bring to the track. A checklist...

¿Estás listo para desbloquear el potencial dentro de tu hijo con Autismo y ayudarle a realizar tareas esenciales de higiene con confianza e independencia? Imagina equiparte tanto a ti como a tu hijo con el conocimiento y las habilidades necesarias para abordar actividades diarias como cortarse el cabello, cepillarse los dientes, lavarse las manos, bañarse y mucho más. Bienvenidos a "Entendiendo el AUTISMO, Entrenamiento para el Uso del Baño y Cuidado Personal".

What if the only thing standing between you and total clarity was your own mind? In today’s chaotic world, discipline is rare. Focus is fragile. And most people are mentally reactive, emotionally hijacked, and stuck in loops of overthinking that destroy their momentum. The Unshakeable Mind is a powerful blueprint for building a mindset that stays calm under pressure, executes with precision, and refuses to break—no matter what life throws at it. If you’re tired of burnout, distraction, and inconsistency, this book will teach you how to train your thoughts, kill noise, and take ...

Step into the fascinating world of hypnosis with "The World as a Stage," your essential guide to mastering the art of hypnotic influence in any environment. Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or a curious newcomer, this book unlocks the secrets to both covert and overt hypnosis, offering a wealth of techniques to maximize responsiveness and create transformative experiences. Discover how to harness the power of suggestion in diverse settings—from the bustling energy of nightclubs and bars to the serene tranquility of wellness centers. Each chapter provides in-depth strategies and real...

Unleash a resilient mind and unstoppable game in just weeks, even if balancing sports and life feels overwhelming. Are you struggling with performance anxiety? Do you grapple with self-doubt, making you question your skills during critical moments in sports? Are you in need of resilience to bounce back from setbacks like injuries or academic pressure? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you’re in the right place. Most young athletes and their supporting parents feel this way all too often. But those challenges can be transformed into strengths with the tested techniques ...

¿Cómo pueden los CEO de hoy sacar más provecho de sus equipos? Actuando más como CBO (‘chief behavioral officers’, o directores de comportamiento): adoptando prácticas de liderazgo positivo, diseñando buenas experiencias para los empleados y proporcionando formación en comportamiento. Después de todo, el capital humano es la clave para lograr los objetivos financieros.

Recovering from Training is the ultimate guide to the theory and practice of recovery from training. It will allow the dedicated athlete and coach to plan out training, diet, and recovery strategies for optimal results. If you can recover better, you can train more, train harder, and make better gains over time.

PROBLEM: Generic high-carb meal plans and ultra-processed sports products leave many athletes fatigued, inflamed and stuck at the same race times. AGITATION: Studies from 2022-2025 confirm that metabolic inflexibility—your inability to switch smoothly between fat and carbohydrate—raises injury risk, slows recovery and causes the GI distress that ruins big-event days. SOLUTION: Evolutionary Nutrition for Athletes shows you how to align ancestral food choices with modern training loads so you can power longer sessions, recover faster and extend your athletic lifespan. ✅ Macronutrient ...

How to tackle poor performance and build capability Many organisations struggle with poor performance. Despite investing in various learning and development initiatives they seem unable to solve the performance puzzle. They cannot get to the real underlying cause of the lack of performance, and so it continues. Think about it this way - wherever there is poor performance, it is because someone is not capable of doing what needs to be done. Something is stopping them from doing the job in front of them. This book is like a 'Field Guide' that shows you how to operate as a performance ...

Did you know there is an area of your brain known as the "Lizard Brain" that thinks only about the immediate moment and your means of survival? Yes, in certain circumstances, your "Rational Brain" can effectively "shut down" and you are at the mercy of a reptile... dry-mouthed, sweating, queasy, unable to think clearly - even though you know better. When does the Lizard Brain run the show? It can happen in any number of unfamiliar, uncomfortable, challenging, or "stressful" riding situations. But here's the thing: with the right kind of training, you can learn to manage the reptile within.