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We get a ringside seat to Zieger telling us her athletic biography and detailing the many issues she had following her 2009 bike crash It seems as if she still has unresolved issues with this incident and it dominates the book That crash or its aftermath is mentioned in almost every chapter Most of the advice she provides here is simply good training practices not about mental toughness although she fails to dig deep enough for this to be a solid book on training The tools she claims to be providing as part of a champion mindset are not revolutionary Things like confidence and ownership seem too obvious What really is this books downfall is the failure to provide concrete exercises or tools to develop this mindset She does mention meditation and mantras as useful tools but still does not provide enough details on how to actually implement those practices into your training I was sorely disappointed There is much value in Fitzgerald s How Bad Do You Want It in terms of actual tools for mental toughness for endurance athletes Joanna Zeiger agree with other reader.

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I really like the book Don t give up Noxcuses Don t blame others Positive mantras Do your best. The Champion Mindset epubor The author is a world class triathlete and Runner I listened to the audio version of this book and thought it was read well by the author You may find for much of the book you re thinking I knew that Every time it encourages better thinking it helps you improve performance Some may say it s about positive thinking than mental toughness Zeiger would say accept the difficult issue and continue to give best effort Sometimes it is hard to stay focused when trouble occurs Joanna Zeiger Lots of good advice from someone who has been both near the top of the endurance sports world as well as the absolute bottom after a horrific bike crash and also brings a coaching perspective The chapters cover topics like Proper Goal Setting Keeping it Fun Building Your Team Improving Motivation etc I found a lot of it very helpful and honestly I probably need to read it again at this point Joanna Zeiger While I found some aspects of the book useful and all the feats described stunning I couldn t connect with the book I felt she was trying to teach a very personal lesson something you hear from a close friend mentor coach who you ve known a while in a very impersonal way The book was also full of contradictions that cannot be sorted out without a proper coach to tell you which side of the contradiction you need to work on It rendered the whole thing kind of pointless It also surprised me how seemingly toxic the sport of triathlon is athletes racing on broken bones or fevers doesn t seem smart or healthy Joanna Zeiger This book was recommended by my coach when I asked about a good read on developing mental toughness Written by a professional athlete for athletes and weekend warriors alike this book offers a true wealth of hands on practices of how to set and achieve your sports goals how to dream big without setting yourself up for disaster how to deal with setbacks restlessness of a taper finding meaning and purpose when going gets tough and many other big and small issues that every athlete encounters and deals with in the course of his or her sports life A must read for all sports enthusiasts Joanna Zeiger This book provided some very useful tips for a new runner like myself At times it felt like she was talking directly to me and I appreciated the parts of the book that called for self evaluation I definitely think this book gave me key points to help build a stronger mind when it comes to endurance sports and I m glad I read it Joanna Zeiger An in depth mental motivational book for all athletes from Olympian Dr Joanna Zeiger that offers game changing strategies for programming your brain to achieve physical excellence Champions as the familiar adage preaches are not born they re made Reaching the top of any sport or any aspect of life takes years upon years of dedication and proper preparation But if there s a huge pool of individuals who have undertaken the same commitment and steps towards becoming the best what truly separates the winners from everyone else Joanna Zeiger believes proper mental preparation is the answer The Champion Mindset is a much needed and long overdue look into how to program a competitor s mind to achieve optimal success Changing behaviors and ways of thinking are never easy but the chapters in this book aim to simplify this process to make it manageable and achievable This book is for every athlete from the weekend warrior who wants to complete in his or her first 5k running race to those who have aspirations of one day becoming Olympians and world champions The Champion Mindset is a compendium of Zeiger s own personal journey from struggling novice swimmer to Olympian and World Champion Through steps including Proper Goal Setting Keeping it Fun Building Your Team Intention in Training Improving Motivation Promoting Self Confidence and Mind Body Cohesion among others Zeiger uses her decades of personalxperience doctoral level research and professional success to prepare readers to go all in with their mental game The Champion Mindset An Athletes Guide to Mental ToughnessI first came across this book after doing Joanna Zeiger s mental toughness online quiz There s a sport I want to get better at and the mental game is a big part of improving Anyway in the quiz I came in at a white belt i. The champion mindset book e not mentally toughwhich got me interested in the book because I always thought of myself as being pretty strong willed so maybe there s something I don t know The book is about her life experience as a professional swimmer triathlete and runner and what it takes to drive yourself mentally and follow through to a win And while the sport I m interested in is not an endurance sport and I have no experience or even much interest in competitive endurance sports I felt that what she talked about can be applied to any discipline Some takeaways that made this book worth it figuring out if you re the type of person who trains to race or races to train the evidence that giving yourself corny pep talks actually improves your results and that making sure you re really enjoying it all the time even when it s painful can keep you going I recommend reading her polls of other racers with and without these qualities and her own experiences You definitely get the sense that she speaks from grueling experiencewhich is a lot better than hearing someone s theories on the topic I d also recommend the quizthe results might surprise you Joanna Zeiger I rarely ever cannot finish a book but I just couldn t do it I guess I don t have mental toughnessIn all seriousness on the foothills of reading Endure by Hutchinson which is evidence and science based I had high expectations for this book But this book was not science or evidence based which is strange for an author with a PhD The book was an autobiography hands down as the author uses self examples and personal anecdotes to support almost every thesis which cannot really be discerned as it was never articulated clearly A few instances of personal reference in a book are fine but when it makes up the bulk of a book that is not supposed to be an autobiography it comes across as shallow and self interested Mental toughness wasn t even really addressed in any way that the reader could take anything away from it It actually felt like reading a personal training journal where the author was still struggling with her own mental issues and writing for catharsis I have no issue with autobiographies but when a book is marketed as a book about the topic of mental toughness I just find it hard to get behind this one Very disappointing Joanna Zeiger This is an awful book I m sure she had the best of intentions but this book is terrible In a book about mental toughness the concept isn t even mentioned until about halfway through the book Instead of stories supported by evidence or research little emphasis on mental toughness I m not an athlete but I m picked up some relevant wisdom from the book 1 focus on what you can control 2 intention and behavior relationship 3 training to race or race to train. PDF The Champion mindset book 5 shortcuts usually don t work 6 improvement is gradual built upon layer and layer of training and training doesn t lie can apply in other aspect of life Joanna Zeiger At first I was going to give this book a five star review I think she shares a valuable practical perspective on preparing yourself in every way for endurance competition It s worth reading the first half. The Champion Mindsetpubor But around the halfway point I got pretty tired of her rehashing her accident going over the same anecdotes again and again The book could have been much shorter it feels like if she wasn t writing it as a way to process her feelings about the accident And all of her exploratory surgeries That got to be a little much Her favorite surgeon is the one who keeps going back in It s hard not to think that she s the victim of a predatory surgeon and some very real TMS pain caused by the trauma of her crash Joanna Zeiger .