Head In The Game: The Mental Engineering of the World’s Greatest Athletes Audiobook (Free)

An intriguing mixture of research and sports activities that explores how a number of the worlds best athletes are utilizing the last frontier of performance-enhancing technology-the mental mapping and anatomist of their very own brains-for peak functionality, and what this means for the future of athleticism, sports, and the rest of us.

Moneyball showed how figures were revolutionizing baseball. The Sports activities Gene revealed the role genetics play in sports. Now, Head in the Game examines the next progression: how about Mind In THE OVERALL GAME: The Mental Executive from the World’s Greatest Sports athletes mental engineering-the manipulation of the cognitive processes of the brain-can make gifted sports athletes even better.

For a long time, technology-from EEG (electroencephalogram) to fMRI (Functional magnetic resonance imaging) to video gaming, tablets, and personal data collection devices-have been used in combination with soldiers to understand their physical and mental functioning. Coming in contact with on brain functionality vital to sports-both the ‘hard’ (coordination, stimuli processing, functional memory space, decision-making, load-processing) and the ‘gentle’ (emotion regulation, visualization, psychology, mindfulness)-this tech is now being adopted by ratings of championship franchises and top athletes-including scrappy underdogs pressured to innovate and top notch players searching for an advantage.

Superstar NFL quarterbacks Russell Wilson and Tom Brady, the NBA’s Kyle Korver, and Olympic volleyball champ Kerri Walsh are using mental executive to up their video game. It’s not good luck that has transformed the San Antonio Spurs right into a formidable force-it’s science, Sneed shows. As mental executive becomes widespread-taking athletes who are already freaks of nature and making them better-the effect on the multi-billion buck sports market will be dramatic on players, managers, coaches, owners, as well as fans. Interviewing athletes and coaches, going to training camps and sports research firms, Brandon Sneed offers a firsthand, on-the-ground understand this fascinating breakthrough that has the potential to transform to transform the game-and all our lives.