Ahead of the Game: How to Use Your Mind to Win in Sport

Ahead of the game is a practical and useful book for anyone who wishes to improve their sports performance or fitness habits. Jeremy provides a collection of effective tools and techniques from NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Coaching and Sports Psychology that can help you deal with any key mental challenge you might come across in sports be it motivation, unhelpful beliefs, fears, and other mental factors that hold you back from achieving your sports or fitness goals.This is a very down to earth, practical and jargon free book, with plenty of illustrative real-life stories and exercises that anyone can do. I found Ahead of the Game a great inspiration in my own work as a Coach and NLP practitioner with clients (in sports/fitness, business and weight loss contexts) and have also successfully used a number of the techniques to improve my sports performance and fitness level.Although this book focusses on better results in a sports context, most of the techniques equally apply in other contexts, for example business or any other area where people wish to improve their performance.

This book is excellent for communication, goal setting, changing beliefs and seeing things from other people's perspective. Jeremy Lazarus gives a clear and comprehensive end-to-end description of NLP, including precise "How To" steps so anyone can use the practices outlined for themselves or when coaching others. The appendices are worth the cost of admission in themselves. I especially liked the chapters on "What they probably don't teach you a coaching school", for example, the use of metaphor and analogy when coaching. Great book!

For once I have found NLP easy to understand in digestible amounts and have been totally invigorated by reading this book, which I read in a weekend! I am going to read it again and again no doubt taking more from it each time. I think I finally ‘get it (NLP)’ and it is thanks to the great way this book is written.

NLP techniques applied to sports coaching. Good book to learn and use for all coaches and sports people. Use and practice of techniques will work!

A compelling guide on how to use your mind to win in sport. I found it a very practical guide for all levels of coaches & athletes. I love the way it provides the 'how to' of many of the techniques and concepts in traditional psychology books.Great structure to the book.

A well presented book which does not take long to read.Contains many 'easy' tips for winning based on NLP products - which the author promotes non stop.Will suit those looking to get an edge in modern sporting events with minimum effort.

I ordered the book after seeing a review in a Triathlon magazine. It is faultless for it's clarity, practicality, & wisdom. I have used some of the technques to improve my own performance & also when training my clients. It is without doubt the best book available for NLP and sport.

Good solid set of techniques for working with athletes. Would benefit from an update with some of the more recent thinking on mental resilience.