Download or read book Be Your Own Equine Sports Coach written by Alison Lincoln and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As riders, we often spend many hours training independently without regular access to high quality coaches, sport psychologists, biomechanic specialists or exercise physiologists. This can be the difference between performing well and performing to the best of your ability consistently and reliably over the long term. By bringing together the science of training, coaching and psychology, Be Your Own Equine Sports Coach explores the horse and rider as individual athletes and how, as a combination, you can meet the demands of competition by building highly personalized strategies and techniques that enable you to reach your potential in whatever discipline you choose and whatever your ambition. Key areas covered include: making sports psychology work for you understanding human peak performance the physiological and biomechanical demands of horse sport developing sport specific training programs analyzing your performance strategic development and authentic leadership