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The Playmaker''s Advantage: How to Raise Your Mental Game to the Next Level

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By (author): Daniel Peterson Leonard Zaichkowsky

Discover the next frontier in sports trainingimproving your mental game, no matter your age or experienceand how to become the Playmaker, both in your professional and personal life.

Coaches search for it. Parents dream of it. Fans love it. Athletes want it.

The playmaker on any sports team possesses it: an elusive, intangible quality combining anticipation, perception, and decision-making skills. This quality raises their game above the competition and allows them to pass when no one else can, anticipate the movement of opponents, avoid costly mental mistakes, and ultimately, hold the team together.

Now, for the first time, cognitive science research is revealing the secrets of the playmakers keen sense of awareness. Just as tests of speed, strength, and agility have provided a baseline of physiological biomarkers, coaches can now capture cognitive metrics including attention, pattern recognition, anticipation, and the ability to take quick, decisive action during the chaos of competition.

The Playmakers Advantage is a groundbreaking book that will educate athletes of all ages about this essential creative capability in an accessible, easy to understand method. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 299g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 213mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Feb 2019
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781501181870

About Daniel PetersonLeonard Zaichkowsky

Leonard Zaichkowsky a professor researcher and consultant for almost four decades at Boston University pioneered sports psychology by bringing cognitive neuroscience and sports performance together as an interdisciplinary science. His academic textbooks and research publications demonstrated the importance of an athletes remarkable brain in anticipating and acting on opportunities during competition. He has consulted with teams in the NBA NHL NFL MLB Australian Rules Football the Spanish mens national soccer team and Olympic sports organizations around the world. Len is a former president and a fellow of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology and currently section editor on psychology for the International Journal of Health Sport and Science. Recently the American Psychological Association honored Len with the Distinguished Service to the Profession award. Today Len is a cofounder and senior consultant at 80 Percent Mental Consulting advising coaches teams and sports organizations on developing athlete cognition. After too many Boston winters he and his wife now live in Fort Myers Florida.Daniel Peterson is a writer and consultant specializing at the intersection of neuroscience and sports performance. He combined twenty-five years of technology management experience with his second life as a sports dad and coach to explore how athletes make decisions. Now ten years later as cofounder and director of 80 Percent Mental Consulting he works with coaches trainers and teams to understand and improve their cognitive game. Dan and his wife live outside of Milwaukee Wisconsin patiently waiting for the next generation of Peterson playmakers.

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