Sport Psychology Library: Gymnastics

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Summary: Sport Psychology Library: Gymnastics
Review: A terrific book for any gymnast that has fears, anxiety, or any thing like that. Peter Vidmar and Karen Cogan have done a beautiful job writing this book. I have visited Karen Cogan 4 times for my own fears in Gymnastics and she recommended this book. It was great! It really helped me in my gymnastics, and now, I finally have a series on beam! I highly recommend this book to all gymnasts and coaches!

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Summary: Gymnastics offers strategies for best performance.
Review: GYMNASTICS, coauthored by Olympic Gold Medalist and coach Peter Vidmar and sport psychologist and former UCLA gymnast Karen Cogan, details information and concerns most important to gymnasts, such as the psychology of gymnastics, use of the apparatus, relationships with other people in gymnastics, the role of gymnastics in life, and dealing with fear, body image, and eating concerns. Throughout GYMNASTICS, Olympians Shannon Miller, Amanda Borden, Jaycie Phelps, Kerri Strug, and Tim Daggett discuss how they used mental skills to become champions.

GYMNASTICS is the second book in FIT's unique series, the Sport Psychology Library. In each book, a particular sport is explored by a pairing of a professional athlete and a sport psychologist. Each book provides strategies that will help you focus your mental energies, build confidence, increase motivation, manage anxiety, and overcome obstacles.

Be sure to check out other books in the Sport Psychology Library. TENNIS, by Judy Van Raalte and Carrie Silver-Bernstein, is now available, and coming soon are books on golf, basketball, bowling. Each one is being co-written by a professional athlete and a renowned sport psychologist who is also a practitioner of the sport.

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Summary: sport psychology librairy gymnastics
Review: This book is an absolute must for any parent or gymnast who wishes to gain insite on the other side of the sport the mental gymnastics required as this sport evolves. There are many quick and easy quizes and practical tests that the gymnasts can use every day in thier paractices and at competitions.

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Summary: I'll give this book a 10 for being so imformative and useful
Review: Whether you're a competitive gymnast on the club level or a collegiate gymnast, or even just a beginner, you will benifit from this marvelous book. It was written by two former gymnasts, Peter Vidmar and Karen Cogan, who also happens to be a sport psychologist. It will help you improve on your performance by learning how to play the mental game of gymnastics and gives you many strategies to practice and to use to make yourself an even better gymnast that you were before.

This book gives you an instruction of the mental side of gymnastics, and then goes on to give tips about relaxation and energization strategies, positive thinking, mental imagery, developing focus and concentration, and goal setting to get where you want to be. The book then goes on to give individual chapters to each apparatus, highlighting the type of skills needed, mental skills that will help you on that apparatus, and other useful tips. But that's not all- you'll also get information on overcoming mental blocks and fear, dealing with fans, pressure, and fame, keeping the fun in gymnastics, body image and eating disorders, parents and coaches, and much more. This book is a much-needed look at how you can use mental skills to become the best gymnast that you can possibly be.