Publisher's Synopsis
Build the Mindset of a Perfect Athlete
What if your mind could be as well trained and perfected as the body it is directing?
What if it made you capable of pushing your elite body to perform even better, with precision and willpower?
Game day is coming, and you will need every advantage you can get to win. None so much as the game-day mindset!
Written by world-class champion racehorse jockey Olivier Doleuze, this book will focus on the parts of your mind that help you develop and hone your athletic performance.
In The Perfect Mindset, you will discover:
- Solutions for plateauing, stalling, or stagnating, in your run times, or weight limits
- The mind-muscle connection you will need to train for next-level performance
- Why competitiveness is neither good nor bad (it's what you do with it)
- How to ensure your goals suit you and are possible for you to achieve
- How the "win or else" mentality can take excessive pressure off of your mind
- How to gain the Mental Toughness that most athletes have in higher capacity than most
- How to grow your capacity for handling setbacks (recoil)
- Why more training does not equal more results
- What to do if you miss a training session (and what *not*to do)
- The main causes of plateaus and slow progress in athletes
- Why you may have less of a natural drive (and what it can tell you about yourself)
- The 4 characteristics of a true athlete
- The secrets to overcoming mental fatigue (and what this fatigue means)
- How stress is an incentive and a natural response but also poisonous in large quantities (and what to do about it)
- The 3 levels of discipline, why you need them, and how to develop them
- Why you react the way you do to certain exercises
- The steps that can propel you into your very own 'zone'
- The 6 techniques to help you build more self-discipline (so you can meet your goals)
By seeking to be better, you inspire yourself to greatness, while also inspiring others around you!
