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    Next-Level Coaching: How to Use Sport Psychology to Educate, Motivate, and Improve Student-Athlete Performance
    Next-Level Coaching: How to Use Sport Psychology to Educate, Motivate, and Improve Student-Athlete Performance
    Next-Level Coaching: How to Use Sport Psychology to Educate, Motivate, and Improve Student-Athlete Performance
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    Next-Level Coaching: How to Use Sport Psychology to Educate, Motivate, and Improve Student-Athlete Performance

    By Ben Loeb

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    Play your sport, not mind games

    ​Ben Loeb has created an actionable guide to implementing sport psychology in team sports, including extensive exercises and self-assessment activities. 

    With seventy-five exercises for coaches and athletes to use upping their game, Next-Level Coaching will give you the competitive edge. 

    This book will help you learn about: 

    • Mental Toughness
    • Confidence
    • Focus
    • Motivation and Motivational Obstacles
    • Entering “The Zone”
    • Developing Mental and Emotional Skills
    • Leadership and Team Building
    • Character and Values

    Next-Level Coaching will help any athlete, coach, or parent working with a young athlete become more successful in athletics—and life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreenleaf Book Group
    Release dateJul 10, 2018
    ISBN9781632991782
    Next-Level Coaching: How to Use Sport Psychology to Educate, Motivate, and Improve Student-Athlete Performance

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      Next-Level Coaching - Ben Loeb

      PRAISE FOR

      NEXT - LEVEL COACHING

      "What Ben Loeb has created with Next-Level Coaching is most needed: a practical guide to sport psychology for athletes and coaches. You can open the book and apply a concept immediately to yourself or your team. It is written in a manner that young athletes can digest, but it is also very relevant and useful for adult athletes. Coach Loeb’s use of open-ended, exploratory questions allows athletes to explore their understanding of themselves and of what it takes to perform consistently at a high level. For a coach it provides a template for individual or team mental training that will ‘move the ball forward’ and enhance performance."

      —LARRY LAUER, Ph.D.; mental skills specialist, United States Tennis Association; certified mental performance consultant, Association for Applied Sport Psychology

      It’s very difficult to teach the many concepts of what I call the ‘Mental Side of Competition.’ Ben Loeb has simplified these concepts and supplied the techniques to improve. I would highly recommend this book for those that want to take their performance to the next level.

      —GARY PINKEL, former football coach, the University of Missouri, author of The 100 Yard Journey: A Life in Coaching and Battling to Win

      Ben has produced an excellent, comprehensive guide for anyone seeking greater competitive success. It is thorough, practical, and compelling.

      —JIM LOEHR, cofounder, Johnson & Johnson Performance Institute; best-selling author

      Ben has written an excellent treatise of sport psychology for coaching. This book is full of great nuggets of information for coaches at any level.

      —JACK GROPPEL, cofounder, Human Performance Institute

      "In Next-Level Coaching, Ben Loeb has done a wonderful job bringing together Mental Toughness strategies with exercises that coaches and players can use to reflect on their performance. This is an important step in developing awareness and then taking action! Coaches and players will greatly benefit!"

      —LINDA LECLAIRE, energy coach, author of The Confidence Factor, and Yes, God Speaks to Women, Too! A Message of Health, Healing and Hope

      In my 20 years of independent practice as a sport psychologist I have rarely come across a book with such enormous accuracy, breadth, depth, and practicality. The lessons and exercises are easy to implement, up to date, and will greatly benefit any athlete, coach or performer even far beyond sports. I simply cannot offer up enough praise for what Ben Loeb has accomplished, and this book has just earned a most prominent place on my office bookshelf!

      —JOHN F. MURRAY, PhD, licensed clinical and sport psychologist; author of The Mental Performance Index

      Ben has created a useful guide for putting mental training into action for athletes and coaches.

      —JIM TAYLOR, PhD; author of Train Your Mind for Athletic Success: Mental Preparation to Achieve Your Sports Goals

      I often hear coaches and athletes say, ‘This sport is 90 percent mental.’ Yet most would admit to spending 90 percent of their training on the physical aspects of their sport. Perhaps it’s because they have not had a concise, practical, and interactive resource to guide them in developing the mental/emotional side of sport. Well, now they do. Ben Loeb’s book provides the kind of comprehensive guidance every athlete and coach needs. This book is easy to use due to its layout, short chapters, and helpful exercises. I highly recommend this book for your library.

      —DAVID BENZEL, founder, Growing Champions for Life

      This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher and author are not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional services. If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought.

      Published by River Grove Books

      Austin, TX

      www.rivergrovebooks.com

      Copyright ©2018 Ben Loeb

      All rights reserved.

      Thank you for purchasing an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright law. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted for resale and/or retail distribution without written permission from the copyright holder.

      Distributed by River Grove Books

      Design and composition by Greenleaf Book Group

      Cover design by Greenleaf Book Group

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      Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data is available.

      Print ISBN: 978-1-63299-177-5

      eBook ISBN: 978-1-63299-178-2

      First Edition

      Dedication

      The countless hours and the commitment to writing this book over a period of many years were done to honor the memory of my father (Al) and my mother (Joan) for all the love they gave me and my two sisters (Kathy and Nancy). This dedication to my parents is to say thank you for their dedication to me. They were my first and best coaches, to whom I will always be grateful. I miss you. My hope is that they are in a calm and peaceful place for eternity.

      CONTENTS

      Tips and Exercises by Topic

      Foreword

      Author’s Note

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: Mental Excellence

      Arrivers or Strivers?

      The Demanded and the Un-demanded Mile

      Three Essential Pillars of Mental Excellence

      Success Orientation

      Locus of Control

      Chapter 2: Mental Toughness

      Four Foundational Factors of Mental Toughness

      The Emotional Markers of Mental Toughness

      Mental Toughness—Is It Will Power, Still Power, or Excel Power?

      Conditional or Unconditional Self-Acceptance

      What’s Your Compete Level?

      Chapter 3: Confidence

      The Confidence Challenge

      Developing Confidence for the Not-So-Confident

      Three Spokes on the Wheel of Confidence

      The Three Ps to Better Self-Confidence and Sport Performance

      Building Confidence in Sports—Finding the Right Process for You

      Chapter 4: Focus

      Four Focus Factors for Success

      Ignore Results to Get Them

      Centering During Sport Performance

      Distraction Control

      Pre-Performance Routines

      Refocus Now! Use Cue Statements or Images during Competition

      Chapter 5: Motivation

      The Motivation to Compete

      May the Force Be with You!

      Seven Special Motivational Quotes

      Achievement Theory and Motivation

      Geared to Go for Optimal Motivation

      Guiding Principles of Goal Setting

      Chapter 6: Motivational Obstacles

      Learned Helplessness

      Fear of Failure

      Fear of Success

      Perfectionism

      Underachievement

      Chapter 7: Entering The Zone

      What Is Flow?

      Entering the Zone: How to Get There

      Thoughts and the Mindfulness Solution

      Training and Preparing for a Zone Experience

      Maintaining Your Zone of Optimal Performance

      ZEN—Enter the Zone Experience Naturally

      Chapter 8: Developing Mental Skills

      Mental Imagery

      Relaxation Techniques

      Energy Management

      The 4 Cs for Successful Performance

      The Nine Mental Skills of Successful Athletes

      Chapter 9: Developing Emotional Skills

      Develop a Positive Attitude toward Pressure

      Emotional Regrouping Is as Easy as ABC

      Understand and Stop the Choke Response

      Successful Emotional States

      The 3 Rs for Emotional Balance

      E-MOTION-al Rescue

      Emotional Management: Play without Feeling?

      Chapter 10: Leadership

      Leadership Insights from Coach K

      Four Steps to Better Player Leadership

      The 10-80-10 Rule

      You Can Be a Leader, Too

      This Is Your Movie

      Chapter 11: Team Building

      Build an Effective Team Culture

      Cultivate a Team Environment

      Are You Willing to CARE along the Journey?

      You’re the REF—What’s the Call?

      Three Team-Building Values

      Standard of Excellence

      Chapter 12: Character and Values

      The Fab Five Character Factors

      Do Character Building and Competitive Sports Mix?

      A RAPID Look at Core Values

      Core Values of a Successful Athlete

      The Ties that Bind Us

      Use Shared Core Values to Determine a Team Mission Statement

      Self-Evaluation Inventories

      Why Do You Compete?

      Competitive Adjective Profile (CAP) Inventory

      Competitor Rating #1—An Overall Evaluation

      Competitor Rating #2—A Crunch Time Evaluation

      Self-Evaluation of Mental Skills and Characteristics

      The Iceberg Illusion

      Sports Performance Anxiety Evaluation

      Grit Inventory

      Bibliography

      End Notes

      Index

      About the Author

      FOREWORD

      The field of sport psychology is built upon the identification and development of numerous theories, concepts, understandings, strategies, techniques and skills related to the psychological and emotional experiences of sport. We know beyond any doubt that applying and utilizing these same theories, concepts, understandings, strategies, techniques, and skills will help coaches and athletes to prepare better, perform better, achieve more, and become prouder, happier, and more fulfilled. They will even be more motivated to want to work to achieve even more. However, the biggest challenge in sport psychology is to get these important understandings, strategies, and skills to the people involved in sport: coaches and athletes.

      Coach Ben Loeb has done exactly this—and more. In his book, Next-Level Coaching: How to Use Sport Psychology to Educate, Motivate, and Improve Student-Athlete Performance, Ben has identified many of the key psychological constructs supporting high-performance excellence and their potential applications and translated these principles from the language of psychology to the language of sport, giving coaches and athletes easy access to this important knowledge. He has bridged the gap between theory and practice and made it simple for coaches and athletes at any level to prepare better— and achieve more.

      I have known Ben for over thirty years: first as a graduate student of mine in sport psychology, then as a colleague and fellow coach at the University of Missouri, and later, for more than twenty-five years, as the Head Tennis Coach for both girls and boys at the high schools in our community. As of the end of May 2018, the teams he has coached have won over one thousand dual meets, seventeen state championships, and made thirty-eight Final Four appearances—including his girls team winning the last four consecutive state championships and the boys team winning the last three consecutive state championships! He is a living legend!

      In this book, Coach Loeb provides seventy-five specific exercises, drills, or scales that coaches or athletes can work into their regular practice routines. These exercises are key on competition days, both for pre-competition preparation and for maintaining optimal awareness and readiness during competition. They are extremely useful in the pre- and post-season as well.

      Ben has presented his explanations and exercises in such a direct and simple language and format that you will quickly grasp how to implement them into your sport and team practice—and then will almost immediately think of one or two ways to apply these same principles on your own. Coach Loeb will give you one idea, and this will inspire two more great ideas of your own! This is the very essence of great coaching.

      I am currently leading a program that provides professional education and development for over ten thousand coaches at all levels of sport. Next-Level Coaching is a must-read and will be included at the very top of our list of strongly suggested resources.

      Thanks, Coach Loeb! This book is a game changer!

      —Rick McGuire, Ph.D.

      Founder and Director,

      Missouri Institute for Positive Coaching;

      Head Coach, Track and Field (Retired);

      Graduate Professor, Sport Psychology (Retired);

      University of Missouri

      AUTHOR’S NOTE

      A portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to each of the following national charitable organizations:

      The Foundation Fighting Blindness: www.FightBlindness.org

      Leukemia & Lymphoma Society: www.lls.org

      I want to encourage you, the readers of this book, to donate money each year to a charity you believe in. Best wishes on your journey through life.

      INTRODUCTION

      Back in the early 1970s through the mid-1980s, when I was a teenager and into my twenties, I played in many summer tennis tournaments at the Dwight Davis Tennis Center in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri. I used to practice so hard in preparation for these tournaments. But then, during the tournaments I’d find myself getting

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