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On Top of Your Game: Mental Skills to Maximize Your Athletic Performance Paperback – October 25, 2013

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How far could you go in your sport if there wasn't anything holding you back?

What if there is a world-class athlete inside of you just waiting to come out?

Physical skill alone is not enough to deal with the demands of your sport. Knowing how to perform under pressure, tame the butterflies, and overcome setbacks are all essential if you want to be at the top of your game. Drawing on her work as a mental skills expert, Carrie Cheadle gives you the essential mental skills used by top athletes to perform consistently, remain confident under pressure, and successfully accomplish your athletic goals. On Top of Your Game offers specific mental training exercises that you can instantly use to improve your sport performance.

This book will help you learn how to:

Remain positive under pressure
Be mentally tough in the face of any challenge
Achieve more consistent results
Feel calm, confident, and ready to compete
Rekindle the excitement and love for your sport You've trained your body and now it's time to train your mind. This book will teach you the step-by-step tools needed to be mentally tough and successfully face the challenges of training and competition. Get ready to perform to your potential.

“In my 30+ years in cycling I have had many opportunities to see extremely physically talented athletes fail to live up to their potential because they were never able to balance their physical talent with the mental side of sport. During that same time I have seen good athletes have championship winning performances due in part to their mental strength. Now more than ever, with so much information available to everyone instantaneously, many athletes tend to look everywhere except to themselves for improvement.

Carrie Cheadle’s “On Top Of Your Game” is a fantastic resource for every level of athlete from weekend warrior to World Champion who is looking to strengthen their mental game and thus improve performance by looking within. With an easy to read format, “Take-Aways” & “Tools” at the end of each chapter and the “...there is no right or wrong way” approach, Cheadle definitely has a winning book on her hands. Drawing on personal experience as well as the experiences of the many athletes she has worked with, a nice balance of real life and textbook examples is achieved to make easy understanding for everyone.”

-Kurt Stockton
1990 US Professional Road Cycling Champion
Team Manager & Director NOW and Novartis for MS Women’s Professional Cycling Team

“I started this book while going through an injury and when the first few pages opened up with a personal story by Carrie of overcoming an injury herself, I knew I was going to benefit from reading the rest! The way she uses her own journey as an athlete, and combines that with her extensive studies in sport psychology, makes this book a 'must have' for any level of athlete. We just don't give enough credit to the power of the mind. Don't be lazy! Read this wonderfully written piece of work and start the process now.”
-Lesley Paterson
3 x Off-Road World Triathlon Champion

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Carrie Cheadle is a Mental Skills Coach and a Certified Consultant through the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (CC-AASP). She lives in Petaluma, California and has been working on peak performance with teams, organizations, and individual athletes since 2002. Carrie received her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology at Sonoma State University and her Master of Arts degree in sport psychology at John. F. Kennedy University. Carrie works with athletes at every level, from recreational athletes to elite and professional athletes competing at national and international levels. She works with athletes and teams in many different sports and specializes in working with cyclists and endurance athletes. She also specializes in working with athletes and exercisers with Type 1 diabetes and is the Director of the Mental Skills Training Program for Diabetes Training Camp. Carrie has been interviewed as an expert resource for articles that have appeared in VeloNews, Outside Magazine, Bicycling Magazine, Sporting Kid, Snowboard Canada, Men's Fitness, and Women's Health. Carrie's personal athletic journey, from sitting on the start line of a car race, to standing at the top of a double-black diamond run, to returning to sports after multiple injuries have all led her to recognize the tremendous impact psychology has on physical performance. Carrie has her own personal commitment to life-long fitness and when she isn't working with athletes, you might find her running on a trail or hitting the slopes on her snowboard. For more information about Carrie and Mental Skills Training, please visit: Website: www.carriecheadle.com FaceBook: MentalSkillsTrainingforAthletes Twitter: @feedtheathlete

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Feed the Athlete Press; 1st edition (October 25, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0989691608
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0989691604
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.62 x 8.5 inches

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Carrie Jackson Cheadle M.A. CMPC, is a mental skills expert nationally known for her expertise in the psychology of sports performance. In addition to being a Certified Mental Performance Consultant, she is also an adjunct professor, podcaster, and author of the books On Top of Your Game: Mental Skills to Maximize Your Athletic Performance and co-author of the book Rebound: Training Your Mind to Bounce Back Stronger from Sports Injuries.
Carrie co-hosts The Injured Athletes Club podcast where she interviews athletes and shares resources on the psychological aspects of injury recovery (www.injuredathletesclub.com). She is also a popular source for media and has been quoted an an expert resource for publications such as Outside Magazine, Shape Magazine, Men’s Fitness, Women’s Health, Runner’s World, Women’s Running Magazine, Bicycling Magazine, New York Times, and HuffingtonPost. You can follow Carrie on Instagram & Twitter @feedtheathlete and learn more at www.carriecheadle.com.
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Carrie Jackson Cheadle M.A. CMPC, is a mental skills expert nationally known for her expertise in the psychology of sports performance. In addition to being a Certified Mental Performance Consultant, she is also an adjunct professor, podcaster, and author of the books On Top of Your Game: Mental Skills to Maximize Your Athletic Performance and co-author of the book Rebound: Training Your Mind to Bounce Back Stronger from Sports Injuries.
Carrie co-hosts The Injured Athletes Club podcast where she interviews athletes and shares resources on the psychological aspects of injury recovery (www.injuredathletesclub.com). She is also a popular source for media and has been quoted an an expert resource for publications such as Outside Magazine, Shape Magazine, Men’s Fitness, Women’s Health, Runner’s World, Women’s Running Magazine, Bicycling Magazine, New York Times, and HuffingtonPost. You can follow Carrie on Instagram & Twitter @feedtheathlete and learn more at www.carriecheadle.com.
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Dan R.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2019

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I bought this book for my sophomore Daughter, who plays Volleyball, Soccer, and Runs Track. Below is her review and take-aways....

This book has helped me increase my confidence and has been a great way to help me improve on my mental skills. After reading this, I realized that I haven't been the only one going through these problems and that there are many others with similar situations. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who is going through a tough time and willing to put in the effort to put themselves in successful position. I have noticed a huge improvement in my confidence and skills since reading this book.
Thank You to Dr. Hillary Cauthen for recommending Carrie and this book for me!

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On Top of Your Game is Great Guide for Sport and Life

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2013

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I am so excited about this book and am making it a Christmas present for so many people I know including business associates. Carrie speaks in terminolgy that an athlete or nonathlete can relate to with everyday examples of sport and life. The simple exercises offer tools for improvement, not just theories, so it is incredibly satisfying and well worth the money. The sport psychology world can seem complex from afar, but she brings it to a practical level and will help so many people by sharing her knowledge in "On Top of Your Game" and I plan to share that with my friends! As a lifelong equestrian I've dealt with every competition issue from butterflies to lack of focus in the show jumping arena to coming back after injury and failure--I wish I had this book then. I'm not competing today, but I do think it will be helpful in helping me regain the excitement and motivation for riding that has faded in recent years. Thanks Carrie!

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Alex Hutchinson

Fix Your Focus in the Right Direction

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2015

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After a couple epic fails during XC mountain bike races I thought I might need a little psychological boost so I picked up Carrie Cheadle's book, On Top of Your Game. I heard about the book during an interview she gave to Mountain Bike Radio. In the book, the author addresses common mistakes that athletes of any sport can relate to but I found them to have relevance for bike racing. The premise is that while we all prepare physically for our sports, we tend to forget about the psychological aspect until something goes wrong. Her book contains a series of mental exercises that can alleviate such problems, mostly by fixing our focus in the right direction.

Luckily I'm long past the anxiety shakes that hindered my first few races so there were chunks of this book that didn't apply to me. However, there were some gems that hit my issues right on the money. One was my tendency to create "Secret Goals." The author defined that habit as the hidden agenda that we carry into a competition. Reading this section cracked open one of my big problems. With an overactive imagination that focuses too much on outcome and not enough on "Playing" I was setting myself up with unrealistic expectations and thus constantly falling short. Another great notion was the acknowledgement that competition has a natural "Yin/Yang" quality that many of us forget during the good times and remember harshly during the slumps. Carrie writes that if we accept the inevitability of that emotional roller coaster it becomes easier to flow with it.

I read this book end to end and it took a while because I'd read, pause, think and do the mental exercises for each concept. However, most people would probably find it more useful to pick a chapter that jumps out at you. None of us have all of these problems but all of us have likely had some of them. If I have any criticism it would be that while the concepts can be applied across the spectrum of sports, I wish there had been more about bike racing. The shortage of specific examples forces the reader to imagine how it applies to their situation rather than reading about another person facing their exact same difficulty. It is a practical read that focused my mind for another season on the bike, encouraging me to have fun and set more realistic goals.

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Great tools to help you succeed

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2021

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Great book with tools and written exercises to really help you map out your goals. It’s a great way to keep everything present so that you can stay focused . Personally helped me and I was able to win a tournament with the things I was doing from the book. I highly recommend it

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Carla Mader

Very Helpful book--got great results

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2014

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Having struggled for years with performance anxiety, when I committed to fly overseas to compete in the British Indoor Rowing Championships this fall I was determined to find a way to make sure race day nerves did not make it into a fiasco. Carrie's knowledge of the subject is extensive, but what I found most helpful were the techniques she suggested for what to actually DO, in a practical step by step way, to prepare mentally for competition. I was able to enjoy the pre-race time watching my friends compete, and use the last minute emotions as fuel for a very successful outcome. I plan to use these ideas again, not only for athletic events, but for solo musical performances as well (violin.) I highly recommend this book.

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Sam

Purchased for a class, but ended up loving it

Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2021

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Great for any athlete interested in improving their head game as well as performance on the field.

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Sharon L.

Filled with tools to improve your mental game!

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2017

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This book is so easy and fun to read. It provides thought provoking exercises that prepared me for the ups and downs of athletic endeavors. It helped me calm pre-race nerves and to get through many races with a positive mental outlook and attitude. Highly recommend this book to anyone who participates in sports. It will help you condition your mind just like you condition your body- a key piece of training that is often overlooked by athletes.

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B. Imei Hsu

Great for the athlete who needs to improve their mental game

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2015

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Carrie Cheadle gives clear exercises on how top performing athletes can identify their struggles and self-soothe anxiety and concerns. She has quite a number of useful tips on moving people from thinking negatively about their performances both past and future. She also shares some personal stories from her own life, helping the reader know that his or her concerns are common; even the author struggles with them! Easy to read and understand. The last chapter is a summary of all the previous ones, and can be used as a quick "Cliff Notes" version after the reader has read the entire book, or as a primer.

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