by Josephine Perry | Jul 23, 2019 | Book reviews
If you want some basic, good quality health and wellbeing advice then Brad Stulberg is your guy. His twitter feed (@BStulberg) is full of simple common sense and his articles, while always evidence based, are written in a way you actually want to read. He turns the...
by Josephine Perry | Jun 17, 2018 | Book reviews, Books, Performance Psychology, Sports Psychology, Support
I attended a week long workshop a couple of years ago at the English Institute of Sport and one of the people leading it was Steve Ingham. He had some great advice on how to build our skills as applied sport scientists so I bought his book as soon as it came out. And...
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...
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