Mind Gym

An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

By: Gary Mack, David Casstevens

Narrated by: Kevin Young

Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

Praise for Mind Gym:

"Believing in yourself is paramount to success for any athlete. Gary's lessons and David's writing provide examples of the importance of the mental game." (Ben Crenshaw, two-time Masters champion and former Ryder Cup captain)

"Mind Gym hits a home run. If you want to build mental muscle for the major leagues, read this book." (Ken Griffey Jr., Major League Baseball MVP)

"I read Mind Gym on my way to the Sydney Olympics and really got a lot out of it. Gary has important lessons to teach, and you'll find the exercises fun and beneficial." (Jason Kidd, NBA All-Star and Olympic gold-medal winner)

"I love the book Mind Gym." (Madison Kocian, 2016 US Women's Gymnastics Team, 2015 Uneven Bars World Champion, as told to Us Weekly)

In Mind Gym, noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so. Through 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes from prominent athletes—many of whom he has worked with—you will learn the same techniques and exercises Mack uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle". Mind Gym will give you the "head edge" over the competition.

Please note: This is an historical recording. The audio quality represents the technology of the time when it was produced.

©2014 Gary Mack (P)2002 McGraw Hill-Ascent Audio

good read for athletes

At first this seems a bit elementary. but as I listened it reminded me of the mindset necessary to achieve

Inspiring

My coach introduced me to this book and I am glad that I bought it!

Great info

The philosophy and ideas are great. I’m a little confused though. The release date shows 2022, but the content seemed quite older? Maybe the print edition came long before. Regardless, it’s worth the time and money

Fantastic read!

Such a great analysis of sports psychology and its profound application to life and business!!

Changed the game

This book changed not just my athletic career and helped bring me to two national collegiate cheerleading titles, but has served as a life guide. My favorite book ever, I have read it or listened to it over 5 times!

amazing

As a retired Firefighter/paramedic , I felt this book is amazing for everyone to enjoy and benefit from.

Excellent Read

Found this book exceptionally helpful in my role as a therapist. People don’t understand the power of the mind and it’s ability to help or hinder ourselves. What we feed grows and what we starve within ourselves dies.

OK but I was hoping for more…

I was hoping for more structure and substance. To me, it read like a series of anecdotal observations that never really tied together in a way that would teach me something.

There are laudatory tributes to Mark McGuire and Lance Armstrong for their record setting feats. The author may want to rethink those two as mental role models.

random, cliche, and regurgitated

At times, I felt the book was nothing more than a number of random, cliche, motivational quotes just regurgitated onto paper. Also of note is the authors' relationships with teams (Arizona Cardinals) that really didn't win much when the author was working with them.

A Stream of Trite Cliches

Here is the book: Stop thinking negative thoughts, think positive thoughts. The end. The subtitle of this book is “An Athlete’s Guide to Inner Excellence.” Mr. Mack - there’s no guide here. This book is 5 hours and 27 minutes of non-stop one liners taken from athlete media reports and from the author’s own work with athletes. If “It’s not the size of the man but the size of his heart” can be considered a roadmap, i.e. a guide, then stringing together hundreds of similar trite expressions must make this the best guide ever. It is not. There is nothing here, but it does read like sitting through a 5 1/2 hour standup comedy show listening to seemingly endless cliches. Maybe the author thought if he threw out hundreds of one liners, there would be one that stuck to each reader.