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| Getting a Grip on Your Game: The Need to Overcome the Pressures of Play | |
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| Up from Exercise: Our Physical Overeducation | |
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| Our Emotional Undereducation | |
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| Great Expectations Denied | |
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| More Than Muscles: The Emotional Content of Sports | |
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| The Intrinsic Pressures of Sports | |
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| The Social Pressures of Sports | |
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| The Personal Pressures of Sports | |
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| Caught in the Cross Currents | |
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| The Mind Is the Matter: The "Fight or Flight" Syndrome | |
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| The Mechanics of "Fight or Flight" | |
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| The Physical Disruptions | |
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| The Mental Disruptions | |
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| The Sports Emotional-Reaction Profile: Scouting Yourself | |
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| The Sports Emotional-Reaction Profile | |
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| Questions for Sports Emotional-Reaction Profile | |
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| Scoring the SERP | |
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| Translating Your Score Into Your Profile | |
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| Scoring Yourself: What Your Profile Means | |
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| Desire | |
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| Assertiveness | |
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| Sensitivity | |
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| Tension Control | |
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| Confidence | |
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| Personal Accountability | |
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| Self-Discipline | |
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| Trait Interaction | |
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| Scouting Your Physical Game: Determining the Physical Conflicts | |
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| The Physical Self-Scouting Survey | |
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| Two Rules for Physically Scouting Yourself | |
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| Self-Scouting as an Ongoing Process | |
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| Sports Psyching: Learning to Repeat the Best Day You Ever Had | |
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| The Preparation/Practice/Play Approach | |
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| Six Weeks to a Better Game | |
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| Why Sports Psyching Works | |
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| Getting the Most Out of Sports Psyching | |
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| Preparation: Getting Loose, Breathing Easy, and Staying on the Ball | |
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| The First Week: Sports Psyching Technique No. 1-"Getting Loose" | |
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| The Second Week: Sports Psyching Technique No. 2-"Breathing Easy" | |
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| The Third Week: Sports Psyching Technique No. 3-"Staying on the Ball" | |
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| Practice: Overlearning to Avoid Underplaying | |
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| The Fourth and Fifth Weeks: Sports Psyching Technique No. 4-Mental Rehearsal | |
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| The Sixth Week: Sports Psyching Technique No. 5-Body Rehearsal | |
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| Play: Sports Psyching All of the Time | |
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| The Pre-Game Warm-Up Routine | |
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| The Pre-Play Sports Psyching Routine | |
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| Using Sports Psyching to Improve Physical Skills | |
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| Using Sports Psyching to Cope With Pressure Situations | |
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| Using Sports Psyching for Specific Purposes | |
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| Replaying the Game in Your Head | |
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| Playing the Ultimate Game | |
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| Your Game and Their Games: Psych-Outs and How to Avoid Them | |
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| Competition and the Ego Game | |
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| Psych-Outs as Meta-Communication | |
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| The Four Kinds of Psych-Out Games | |
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| Avoiding Psych-Out Games | |
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| You and Your Instructor: How to Get the Most Out of Those Expensive Lessons | |
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| Psychological Barriers Between Student and Teacher | |
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| Failure as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | |
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| Picking the Right Teacher | |
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| They're Your Lessons | |
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| What to Do Before, During, and After the Lessons | |
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| Winning: What It Is and What It Isn't | |
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| Does Winning Mean Excellence? | |
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| The Score About the Score | |
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| Cooperation Games | |
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| The Recreational Athlete's Contract | |
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| Afterword-Grow with Your Game: Using Sports to Help Your Life | |
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| Athletic Motivation Inventory | |
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| Bibliography | |