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Feb 03 2012

Bring Your “A” Game: A Young Athlete’s Guide to Mental Toughness

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Bring Your “A” Game: A Young Athlete’s Guide to Mental Toughness

Bring Your

Mental training is just as important as physical training when it comes to success in sport. And like physical fitness, mental toughness is something that can be taught and learned. Yet many young athletes have not learned the psychological skills needed to develop their best game. This book was written specifically for young athletes interested in improving their performance and reaching their potential in sport.

Bring Your “A” Gameintroduces key strategies for mental training, such

List Price: $ 35.00

Price: $ 35.00

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Jan 28 2012

Prevent Abuse of Sport Education of coaches, parents, athletes and administrators

Published by admin under Online Sports

Denver, CO (PRWeb) January 25, 2012

Sports Positive Coaching is the beginning of a campaign easily accessible to provide education for coaches, parents, athletes and sports administrator of abuse. A major obstacle in solving the problem of sports abuse that those involved in youth sports is not clear what behavior is abuse of misuse of the sport.

“We as coaches, sports, parents and administrators must be very aware of what abuse Sports Coaching methods have changed over the years. What once was acceptable, can now be seen as emotionally and physically abusive, sexist, racist and life-threatening . “(Tom Van Buskirk) http://www.positivesportcoaching.org/sportsabuse.html

Various studies by the youth advocacy organizations in the United States indicates that unacceptable levels of psychological and physical abuse in young athletes

???????? 45.3% of youth surveyed said they were called names, shouted while playing sports

???????? 21.5% said they were pressured to play with an injury

???????? 17.5% said they had hit, kicked or a coach blow

???????? 3.4% said they had been pressured sex or sexually abused

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“sports parents and coaches should be educated about what is or Sport abuse may be as simple as telling a young female athlete a few pounds to lose in order for a starter. It can and has caused that life-threatening eating disorders athletes, sports, parents and all of our communities need. confidence in our coaches teach our youth life lessons through sports have. We have a specific program in place to begin to occur Sport Abuse Campaign ” (Tom Van Buskirk)

positive Sport Coaching, a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization since 1993 and developed online seminars to educate on sport abuse. This campaign is funded by the public and is designed to reach all communities

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