Play On

Play On
Author: Jeff Bercovici
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0544935322

A lively, deeply reported tour of the science and strategies helping athletes like Tom Brady, Serena Williams, Carli Lloyd, and LeBron James redefine the notion of “peak age.” Season after season, today’s sports superstars seem to defy the limits of physical aging that inevitably sideline their competitors. How much of the difference is genetic destiny and how much can be attributed to better training, medicine, and technology? Is athletic longevity a skill that can be taught or a mental discipline that can be mastered? Can career-ending injuries be predicted and avoided? Journalist Jeff Bercovici spent extensive time with professional and Olympic athletes, coaches, and doctors to find the answers to these questions. His quest led him to training camps, tournaments, hospitals, antiaging clinics, and Silicon Valley startups, where he tried cutting-edge treatments and technologies firsthand and investigated the realities behind health fads like alkaline diets, high-intensity interval training, and cryotherapy. Through fascinating profiles and first-person anecdotes, Bercovici illuminates the science and strategies extending the careers of elite older athletes, uncovers the latest advances in fields from nutrition to brain science to virtual reality, and offers empowering insights about how the rest of us can find peak performance at any age.

Peak

Peak
Author: Marc Bubbs
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2019
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1603588094

"There is a new revolution happening in sports as more and more athletes are basing their success on this game-changing combination: health, nutrition, training, recovery, and mindset. Unfortunately, the evidence-based techniques that the expert PhDs, academic institutions, and professional performance staffs follow can be in stark contrast to what many athletes actually practice. When combined with the noise of social media, old-school traditions, and bro-science, it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction. Peak is a groundbreaking book exploring the fundamentals of high performance (not the fads), the importance of consistency (not extreme effort), and the value of patience (not rapid transformation). Dr. Marc Bubbs makes deep science easy to understand, and with information from leading experts who are influencing the top performers in sports on how to achieve world-class success, he lays out the record-breaking feats of athleticism and strategies that are rooted in this personalized approach.Dr. Bubbs expertly brings together the worlds of health, nutrition, and exercise and synthesizes the salient science into actionable guidance.

The Science of High Performance

The Science of High Performance
Author: Som Bathla
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2018-02-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781985567054

Develop High Performance Mindset, Train Your Mind to Build Self-Discipline, Discover How to Learn Faster and Become the Best Version of Yourself. Do you always wonder - why only a handful people beam with self-confidence & perform at their best, while other struggle to finish their tiny 5-pointer to-do-list? Why some people always move at fast pace despite facing obstacles, and others drag their feet back merely on fearful thought? What if you were told that everyone can perform at highest levels? What if you can learn the strategies all performers adopt to master their mind? The Science of High Performance is written to show you that each of us is gifted and capable of high performance. The book will show you scientifically backed principles to help you understand the power of your body and mind- and how you can stretch yourselves beyond 'self created' false limits. You will understand the principle behind why high performers do perform that way and how that approach is accessible to each of us. Som Bathla is an avid reader, researcher and author of multiple bestseller books. In this book, he will hold your hand on a journey to the world of high-performers and hand you over the new set of lenses to help you look at the world differently, thoroughly backed up with scientific principles and psychological studies. The Science of High Performance- will show you how to: Train Your Mind to Take Massive Action regardless of what you feel. Learn how to change your self-image, develop self-confidence and perform at your best. Learn to take stress as a challenge, not as a threat - don't run away from stress, rather learn to work with stress. Learn different ways to control your thoughts to trigger action, despite not feeling like doing it. Learn why you should minimise the use of smartphone and TV to safeguard your mental energy. Master New Skills and Become Expert Learn how to develop optimum balance between stress and recovery to acquire any skills faster. How you can strengthen your layers of learning by following few techniques. Learn the best ways to practice to become an expert in any skill you want. Develop High Performance Habits to Perform at Your Best On Daily Basis Learn the best ways to control your thoughts on moment to moment and keep taking action. How to use your identity to stay on track with your goals that also helps you to feel better. How this different way of goals setting helps you to perform at your best on a daily basis. Don't Get Swayed by Temptations and Boost Your Willpower Learn multiple scientifically proven strategies to beat stress including a simple technique using your breathe. How you can safeguard your willpower using precision and clarity as a tool. Brian Tracy once rightly said: "Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance." You believe in high standards and sincere about upgrading your performance. Because you know that high performance opens the doors for huge opportunities, builds your self-confidence and ensures you achieve your goals faster. Build Mental Muscles, Boost Self-Discipline for Success, Learn how to master skills and accelerate your journey to success. Take Your First Step Towards High Performance Today

High-Performance Training for Sports

High-Performance Training for Sports
Author: David Joyce
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2014-06-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492584622

High-Performance Training for Sports changes the landscape of athletic conditioning and sports performance. This groundbreaking work presents the latest and most effective philosophies, protocols and programmes for developing today’s athletes. High-Performance Training for Sports features contributions from global leaders in athletic performance training, coaching and rehabilitation. Experts share the cutting-edge knowledge and techniques they’ve used with Olympians as well as top athletes and teams from the NBA, NFL, MLB, English Premier League, Tour de France and International Rugby. Combining the latest science and research with proven training protocols, High-Performance Training for Sports will guide you in these areas: • Optimise the effectiveness of cross-training. • Translate strength into speed. • Increase aerobic capacity and generate anaerobic power. • Maintain peak conditioning throughout the season. • Minimise the interference effect. • Design energy-specific performance programmes. Whether you are working with high-performance athletes of all ages or with those recovering from injury, High-Performance Training for Sports is the definitive guide for developing all aspects of athletic performance. It is a must-own guide for any serious strength and conditioning coach, trainer, rehabilitator or athlete.

Running Science

Running Science
Author: John Brewer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2019-02-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1782406506

Running can encompass the absolute extremes of human performance, from speed to endurance. Running Science uncovers the fundamental science that underpins this ubiquitous sport, bringing together the study of biomechanics, nutrition, psychology, health and injury prevention, and the technical development of shoes and running surfaces: it's a complete reference.

Performing Music Research

Performing Music Research
Author: Aaron (Professor of Performance Science Williamon, Professor of Performance Science Royal College of Music)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre:
ISBN: 0198714548

Performing Music Research is a comprehensive guide to planning, conducting, analyzing, and communicating research in music performance. The book examines the approaches and strategies that underpin research in music education, psychology, and performance science.

Performance Psychology

Performance Psychology
Author: Markus Raab
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2015-09-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0128033916

This book integrates findings from across domains in performance psychology to focus on core research on what influences peak and non-peak performance. The book explores basic and applied research identifying cognition-action interactions, perception-cognition interactions, emotion-cognition interactions, and perception-action interactions. The book explores performance in sports, music, and the arts both for individuals and teams/groups, looking at the influence of cognition, perception, personality, motivation and drive, attention, stress, coaching, and age. This comprehensive work includes contributions from the US, UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia. - Integrates research findings found across domains in performance psychology - Includes research from sports, music, the arts, and other applied settings - Identifies conflicts between cognition, action, perception, and emotion - Explores influences on both individual and group/team performance - Investigates what impacts peak performance and error production

Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications

Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications
Author: David H. Bailey
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2010-11-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1439815704

With contributions from some of the most notable experts in the field, Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications presents current research in performance analysis. The book focuses on the following areas.Performance monitoring: Describes the state of the art in hardware and software tools that are commonly used for monitoring and measuring perf

The Art of Performance

The Art of Performance
Author: Jeroen De Flander
Publisher: Performance Factory
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2019-08-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789081487382

In this provocative & persuasive new book, De Flander explores the mindset of the highly successful and uses 6 decades of scientific research to reveal 3 proven performance principles. Drawing on startling statistics and cutting-edge insights, he packages science into a fascinating narrative packed with irresistible and practical takeaways.

Train Your Mind for Peak Performance

Train Your Mind for Peak Performance
Author: Lyle E. Bourne
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013-11-18
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1433816180

Whether you’re training to play the piano, speak a foreign language, shoot a target with a bow and arrow, or master the techniques of fine carpentry, the conditions of your training will affect how successfully you learn and perform. How can you process needed new information in order to remember it better and use it in the future? How long should you work, study, or practice before taking a break? How can you counteract fatigue and boredom to improve performance if the task is tedious? This book shares practical tips to help you learn quickly, remember what you learn, and apply it to real-world performance.