Books with author Mary Manning

As a Sport Psychology and Mental Skills coach, I have seen athletes improve considerably by journaling about their training in a structured way. This journal makes it as easy as possible with guided prompts, formatted pages and clear steps on each page to help you get the most out of your training and yourself as an athlete. On the face of it, journaling is an easy task. However, many athletes often struggle to know what to write about or what to pay attention to in a training journal. This is why I created the Apex Edge Journal, giving athletes a simple framework to plan and evaluate practice sessions, build mental skills and develop more effective learning habits. Some of the key features of effective journaling for training and and skill acquisition are:- Setting different types of goals for your training- Preparing and planning for practice sessions - Recording and evaluating each practice session- Building up your own personal library of training notes for yourself and your coaches- Raising your self-awareness of both yourself and your training- Tracking your training patterns and habits in a constructive way- Holding yourself accountable to your training- Recording valuable feedback from your practice, helping you to chunk information and learn it faster- Gain perspective on your training, shifting from first person, in your head, to third person, on paper, helping you to picture your development