by Josephine Perry | Jul 27, 2019 | Book reviews
I raced in one of those triathlon’s recently where you register and put your stuff in transition at 5:30am and then, because it is in a swimming pool, have to sit around for literally hours until your slot opens up. I had over 400 people ahead of me. I took a grown up...
by Josephine Perry | Jul 25, 2019 | Book reviews
I recently broke my elbow. It at the end of a triathlon I was savagely thrown off my bike by a bump or a dent in the road and so now, in the glorious heat of the summer, having suffered all winter, I cannot get my reward and go out riding (or running, or swimming, or...
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...
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