Sport Psychology Consultant Brian Baxter Makes Giving the Gift of Better Sports Performance Possible

    PORTLAND, OR, November 19, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Last year Americans spent an average of 14 hours shopping for meaningful, heart-felt holiday gifts. Want some of that time back this year? The book "The Sports Mindset Gameplan," may be the perfect timesaving gift for the athletes in your life as it's practical and can help athletes bring out the most calm, confident and mentally tough versions of themselves. Written by sports psychology consultant Brian Baxter, MA, "The Sports Mindset Gameplan" is designed for beginning to elite athletes, and puts the mental focus back into physical training and performance, no matter what sport athletes or their parents are into.

In the interactive workbook, Baxter guides athletes to improve their performance through regaining confidence after setbacks or defeats. He also coaches athletes through team motivation techniques while also helping individual athletes put their skill sets to work to make them perform their best.

Millions of thoughts are channeled through an athlete's head, and Baxter helps athletes learn to direct these positively and productively. "This book was written to complement technical, tactical, and physical training. It can help you fine-tune your mental game to improve confidence and performance, as athletes learn more than just the sport psychology techniques used by elite athletes," Baxter said. "Readers will explore thought-provoking questions and be given power play action steps. They'll learn more about themselves and find just how mentally tough and confident they can be."

"The Sports Mindset Gameplan" is broken down into levels to fit each individual athletes' needs. It follows a pyramid Baxter developed, appropriately called the "Sports Mindset Pyramid," which guides athletes through athleticism and sports skills up to confidence. At 133 pages, it's a quick read and may be purchased through Amazon, or in person for bulk orders for teams or organizations by contacting Baxter's consultancy SpinW, where it may be purchased in hard copy as low as $10/copy. A Kindle version is also available for $9.99.

Brian Baxter, MA is director of SPINw and the author of The Sports Mindset Gameplan. The interactive workbook is the first publication of SpinW, and will help athletes and coaches fine-tune athletes' mental game to improve confidence and performance.

Sport Psychology Institute Northwest (SpinW) is the premier provider of Sport Psychology Services and Mental Game Training for competitive athletes and coaches in Portland and the northwest. For over a decade Sport Psychology Institute Northwest consultants have successfully worked with athletes, teams, parents and coaches to improve performance through confidence, consistency, and control.

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