Rebound: Train Your Mind to Bounce Back Stronger from Sports Injuries
978-1472961433
Regular price $18.00 {{#has_saved}}Written by a leading mental skills coach and a contributing writer to Runner's World, this is a practical guide to building the mental skills athletes need to recover from injury and rebound stronger.
Weaving together personal narratives from athletes, scientific research, and the specialized clinical expertise of mental skills coach Carrie Jackson Cheadle, Rebound contains more than 45 Mental Skills and Drills athletes can use at every phase of their recovery process. These same strategies can help athletes who aren't currently injured reduce their vulnerability to injury and enable any individual to reach new heights within their sport and beyond.
Injuries affect every athlete, from the elite Olympian to the weekend racer. In the moment, a traumatic crash, a torn muscle, or a stress fracture can feel like the most devastating event possible. While some athletes are destroyed by the experience, others emerge from their recovery better, stronger, and more confident than ever.
Not everyone can recover swiftly enough to notch a winning performance in two weeks, of course. However, anyone can work toward a swifter, stronger comeback using mental skills, psychological tools that enable them to take control of their recovery and ultimately use the experience to their advantage. Injury and other setbacks are inevitable--but with training, you can learn to overcome them skillfully and confidently, the same way point guards and forwards practice rebounds.
Run For Rwanda
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Simi, a twelve-year-old Tutsi, escapes the clutches of the Hutu as he watches his family join the one million people killed during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. After finding solace and shelter in a school-turned-orphanage, Simi’s moral convictions and compassion lead him away from safety as he returns to the dangerous wilderness in search of other wandering and orphaned children. In the United States, a dedicated family man and runner, Christian, has his world turned upside down when his family is killed in a small plane crash. He learns of the war in Rwanda, and is drawn to the plight of the 100,000 orphans. Christian travels to Rwanda, where, by a twist of fate, he finds Simi and brings him to the United States as his adopted son after battling a number of unforeseen obstacles.Ten years later, Simi and Christian find themselves back in Rwanda, where, through circumstances not of their choosing, Simi runs the 2004 Olympic Trials in his native land, not the United States as he had hoped. Unexpectedly, they reunite with the school’s teacher, Ruby, who has carried a torch for Christian much longer than ten years. In Greece, Simi competes at the Olympic Games, where he takes to the track against the greatest runner in the world – a Hutu.