by Josephine Perry | Jun 13, 2018 | Book reviews, Books, Performance Psychology, Sports Psychology
Not your normal sports performance book. The language is much jokier and friendlier than you’d usually expect from a professor (in public anyway) and there is a lot more swearing than I have spotted in any of the other sport psych book, or most books really! It is...
by Josephine Perry | Jun 11, 2018 | Book reviews, Books, Sports Psychology
This author of this book, Tony Westbury, a Sport Psychologist, aims to answer 75 questions that athletes or coaches may be thinking about. Westbury is both an applied sport psychologist and a lecturer so spans the world between academics and consulting. In this book...
by Josephine Perry | Jun 9, 2018 | Book reviews, Books, Motivation, Performance Psychology, Sports Psychology
As soon as I opened Endure the green-eyed monster snuck out. This is absolutely the book I wish I’d written. If you are an endurance athlete, curious about how to go faster or longer Hutchinson has collated all the research that you should be relying upon. What he...
by Josephine Perry | May 31, 2018 | Book reviews, Books, Sports Psychology
Professor John Brewer is known as a go to guy for marathon running. He works at St Mary’s University in Twickenham where they have some fantastic running programmes (Mo Farah was a such a regular when he lived nearby they’ve named the track after him) and unusually...
by Josephine Perry | May 29, 2018 | Book reviews, Books, Motivation, Sports Psychology
My plan to read 25 sports books in 2018 is way behind schedule but one I managed to read in under 24 hours (to the joy of my little one who got to watch far too much CBeebies that day) was Irongran. I was involved in the early stages of the book and am quoted in it a...
Recent Comments