Mental Skills and Drills Athlete Workbook - Paperback

by Mark Stanbrough (Author)

The Mental Skill and Drills Athlete Workbook goes hand in hand with Mental Skills and Drills for Athletes. It contains mental skill activities as a quick, easy to understand and complete tool that can be distributed to athletes. Athletes and coaches can put what they have learned to work by completing the drills and activities in this workbook. The mental part of performance is a skill, and therefore should be trained similar to the physical part, with mental drills to improve mental skills. By learning and implementing mental skills with a systematic program, athletes and coaches will be embarking upon a rewarding journey to improve mental skills and make a positive difference.

Author Biography

Dr. Mark Stanbrough has over thirty years' experience of successfully teaching mental skills to students and coaches and has coaching experience at the collegiate, high school, middle school and club levels. He is a professor in the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation at Emporia State University in Kansas and is the director of Coaching Education. The Coaching Education program at Emporia State is currently one of only ten universities in the United State to be accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Coaching Education. He teaches graduate and undergraduate exercise physiology and sports psychology classes. He was a co-founder of the online physical education graduate program, the first in United States to go completely online. He received his Ph.D. in exercise physiology from the University of Oregon, and undergraduate and master's degrees from Emporia State in physical education. He has served as department chair and has served on the National Association for Sport and Physical Education National Sport Steering Committee and is a past member of the board of directors for the National Council for the Accreditation of Coaching Education. Coach Stanbrough served eight years as the head men's and women's cross country/track and field coach at Emporia State (1984-1992) with the 1986 women's cross country team finishing second at the NAIA national meet. He has also coached at Emporia High School and Glasco High School in Kansas. He competed in cross country and track and field for the Emporia State Hornets and has been inducted as a member of the Emporia State University Athletic Hall of Honor. He has also been inducted into the Emporia State Health, Physical Education, Recreation Hall of Honor and has won numerous coach-of-the-year awards at the high school and collegiate levels.