Parenting Athletes

Challenges, losses, and stressors are impossible to avoid in life. They sneak up on you when you least expect it and pull the rug from under your feet mercilessly. You can’t avoid them, but you can decide how you respond to them. They don’t have to end your goals or stop you from dreaming big. Consider this book to be your guide for a journey of continuous movement. Its aim is to keep you firmly focused on your life’s purpose, so you can achieve a state of constant evolution.

The Aware Athlete takes you beyond the definition of fitness as physical fitness only to the concept of life fitness which enables you to overcome obstacles, develop your potential, find inner strength, and live your dreams and redefine fitness. This audiobook takes you far beyond exercise and productivity to the process of developing your potential whether you are young or old, whether you consider yourself and athlete in the traditional sense or not.

アスリートとはスタジアムの内側からスタンドを見上げることが許された人たちです。人びとはそのプレーに拍手をおくり、同時に生の声にも触れてみたいと思っています。

Black Athlete White Athlete is a thought-provoking and insightful book that helps individuals clearly understand the situations that they are currently experiencing. This book provides solutions to overcome challenges in the various areas of life. This book also helps to enlighten, inspire, and nurture the daily tasks needed for mental stability now and in the future.

From the New York Times best-selling author of Brady vs. Manning and dean of football writers - an audiobook that explores the many interesting facets to NFL quarterbacks and their relationships with their fathers. My First Coach goes behind the scenes to explore the unique relationship between these and other quarterbacks and their fathers, as well as investigate various approaches to parenting through their stories. Can young athletes overcome helicopter parents? How did the kids with NFL aspirations deal with their fathers who'd already made it?

As an athlete, the thrill of competition and the rush of adrenaline can make it easy to get caught up in the moment and lose sight of the bigger picture. But what happens when the competition ends and it’s time to transition into a new phase of life? For many athletes, this can be a daunting and overwhelming process. In this book, the author tackles this important issue head-on, offering a range of solutions and strategies to help athletes successfully navigate the transition from sports to a new career or phase of life.

Tony Vlahovic is a former professional baseball player. Surviving life’s strikeouts and difficult innings, Tony’s journey to self-discovery led him to help people with disabilities live out their dreams by using his passion for baseball. Just Need An Opportunity “Let’s Play Ball” is full of heart and serves as a testament to what Tony has endured and conquered on and off of the field as a player and a person.

Girls' athletic participation in school and community sports programs is skyrocketing. Girls now comprise 33 percent of all high school athletes, representing a dramatic increase from four percent who participated in 1971, the year before the enactment of Title IX. You Go, Girl! is a collection of first person insights, thoughts, and stories from successful women in the world of sports.

Mental toughness isn’t synonymous with beating yourself down and punishing yourself for even the slightest of mistakes, it’s a proven way of achieving mental dominance and improving your game. And with this guide by your side, you’ll be able to achieve a winner’s mindset and become resilient so you can reach the elite status for which you are striving.

Are you the wife of a professional athlete or high-profile figure? Are your dreams on hold while you watch your husband live out his? Sidelined No More discusses one of the greatest struggles of a wife married to a high-profile professional athlete: losing her identity. When she's thrust into a world of fame, fortune, stress, and pressure, few can relate or comprehend it. A woman who was once strong, confident, and sure of herself doesn't even recognize who she sees in the mirror.

Ten incredible stories of world class athletes with formidable mindstates. We are living beneath our potential, allowing our doubts and anxieties to close us within an ever-tightening circle of possibility. We are too willing to accept things as they are. We do less than we could to realise our potential, to live the life that is available to us if only we will reach out and take it.

The focus of this book is to provide you, the listener, with best practices for working with youth and athletes outside of the classroom environment. There are too many kids and athletes not receiving the support they need mentally, academically, behaviorally, and emotionally.

Most Valuable Parents: A Guide for Parents of Student Athletes provides insight into different hot topics of discussion relating to helping student athletes. It is a masterfully composed, comprehensive resource for parents of student athletes in any level and every sport. It is a journey that will educate, empower, and enlighten parents of student athletes as they support their children's sports endeavors.

スポーツメンタルコーチが教える“逆境”の乗り越え方、言葉が人を救う

「負に対する免疫を作るためにはどん底を恐れてはいけない。いやむしろどん底をともにすべきだ」（室伏広治）

"No big deal"...for 15 years, these words kept Torey Ivanic from telling her parents, friends, and boyfriends about her interactions with the gymnastics coach who utterly confused her young mind, body, and soul - who had, she eventually came to understand, sexually violated her. In this memoir, Torey transparently and brilliantly shows how the abuse started, the collateral damage it created in her young life, her realization that it was a big deal, and her journey of healing and justice.

あのサメ肌水着を開発した著者・森健次朗。 そんな経験豊富な著者が語る一流ストリートたちの考え方は、やはり一流ゆえの流儀があった！ その方法は、ビジネスの世界でも通用するものであり、仕事の上で、そして生きていく上で大いに役立つ知恵を与えてくれるでしょう。 本書を読んで、人生の金メダルをその手につかもう！

A wonderful how to book that focuses on motivation of a young man in American basketball: Everyone has had a failure, or two or even three.... We often equate failures with negative connotations that the person is lazy, they didn't try hard enough, they aren't educated and so on.... Motivation is not usually the outcome in this situation.

This book gives you practical tools so you can break down the "win at all costs" paradigm and replace it with a growth mindset. Since almost all youth athletes will not become professional players, let's allow sports to give them something they can use their whole life: character and virtue. Traits that matter more than the score.

The Tyler Campbell story is the journey of a man who is in constant search of finding the best version of himself. At an early age, Tyler discovers that his path in life will be a constant emotional roller coaster, that his life will be full of faith-tested trials and heartbreaking setbacks. The son of an NFL Hall of Famer and Heisman Trophy winner, Tyler is on the quest to create a new path for himself and he would utilize the game of football to do it.

Punit Dhillon was nine when he almost drowned in a swimming pool. Twenty years later, he became a competitive swimmer and completed his first of several Ironman Triathlons. Punit lives by the philosophy of using adversity as fuel to exceed all expectations.