The Brave Athlete

Calm the F--k Down and Rise to the Occasion

By: Simon Marshall PhD, Lesley Paterson

Narrated by: Simon Marshall, Lesley Paterson

The Brave Athlete solves the 13 most common mental conundrums athletes face in their everyday training and in races. You don't have one brain - you have three; your ancient Chimp brain that keeps you alive, your modern Professor brain that navigates the civilized world, and your Computer brain that accesses your memories and runs your habits (good and bad). They fight for control all the time and that's when bad things happen; you get crazy nervous before a race, you choke under pressure, you quit when the going gets tough, you make dumb mistakes, you worry about how you look.

What if you could stop the thoughts and feelings you don't want? What if you could feel confident, suffer like a hero, and handle any stress? You can.

The Brave Athlete from Dr. Simon Marshall and Lesley Paterson will help you take control of your brain so you can train harder, race faster, and better enjoy your sport.

Dr. Marshall is a sport psychology expert who trains the brains of elite professional athletes. Paterson is a three-time world champion triathlete and coach. Together, they offer this innovative brain training guide that is the first to draw from both clinical science and real-world experience with athletes.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2017 Simon Marshall and Lesley Paterson (P)2017 Tantor

Solid book on Being a Brave Athlete

This book has a lot of great information on being a mentally strong athlete. I love the multiple examples, resources, and exercises the book lays out. The jokes were pretty dry though, and adding curse words in there didn’t make it funnier at all. But overall a good read for any athlete dealing with anxiety or one that needs more tools in their arsenal

Awrsome book!!

Stop commenting about the authors type of english and listen to all awesome insights being taught to you!!!

Great content and research

They are really trying to help by getting to the root of the problem. Read the whole book, you might learn something about yourself.

More than a triathlon book

This book is a cornucopia of information on The psychology of endurance sports. It is triathlon centric but the revelations it holds can be applied to many challenges in life in general. It does have a good share of profanity sprinkled throughout but replied well to emphasize psychologically trying situations. It is about time someone dispelled common motivational phrases and cliches that are absolutely useless.

Excellent Book!!!

Excellent book for anyone looking to broaden their understanding of themselves and their sport and the relationship they have with it.

Great authors

Really enjoyed what the authors had to say. Competitive martial arts is super enjoyable to us. Now I myself and can share good training in competition from the mouth of othet competition athletes. We share alot of the same pains.

Many facts for athletes mental and body strength.

Unique/ funny speaker/script

Facts covered in humor..nice. good. This was listened by a junior sports team coach. The book sports/examples were often about the same sports as my personal sports: swimming, running and cycling (triathletes) so it was easy to listen. However the facts and storytelling are so universal knowledge based that anyone even non-athlete will listen this easily if the occasional humor is ok inside the factual main talk.

Good, overall.

The bulk of this book is neuroscience, it really covers a lot of things and techniques you can apply, like when laziness is no the problem, how to form habits and, the best, how to accept your emotions, not stop them from happening. A good listen.

I’m currently training for my first triathlon

Such a great book to read while also training for the first time for an event like this. I get very nervous leading up to race events and they offer great tips and tricks to help you through it. Really enjoyed this book!

Loved the theories but couldnt relate

I really enjoyed this reading

However I wish thst drew more example from different sports.