Psyched to Win

The effortless, easy-flowing feeling of playing "in the zone"—it's what every athlete wants, but few know how to achieve it.

Psyched to Win gives you four keys to entering the zone at will:

• Developing faith—Learn to trust in your abilities, training, teammates, and coaching, even when you aren't performing well.

• Improving concentration—Tune out distractions that you can't control, such as crowd noise and the performance of others.

• Practicing centering techniques—Create feelings of being grounded, calm, relaxed, and receptive.

• Using self-hypnosis—Stay centered and in control over the changes that interfere with your coordination, timing, and power.

In Psyched to Win, Robert Nideffer, one of America's premier sport psychologists, presents a training program to help you integrate these psychological skills into your practice routines. And he shows you how to make the important link between psychological skills and improved physical performance.

Dr. Robert Nideffer is one of America's premier sport psychologists. He developed the techniques in Psyched to Win during his work with the 1984 and 1988 U.S. Olympic teams and in his private practice. Dr. Nideffer is the author of more than a dozen books, including Athletes' Guide to Mental Training from Human Kinetics, and serves on the editorial board of such prestigious journals as the Journal of Sport Psychology and The Physician in Sportsmedicine. He earned his PhD in clinical and experimental psychology from Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Nideffer has worked with the Australian Institute for Sport, the Coaching Association of Canada, and the U.S., Canadian, and Australian Olympic teams. In addition to athletes, he is a consultant to multinational corporations, police forces, and the military. In Psyched to Win, he shares with you the mental training techniques that he has used so successfully with many of the world's finest athletes.