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Healthy Competition and Kids

2010

"How was the game? Did you win?" are common questions from parents hoping to encourage their kids after a game. See more...

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Eat Right to Play Hard

Active kids need "high-octane" fuel. In addition to calories for daily activities, health, brainpower and growth, child athletes need energy for sports. To give their performance a boost, feed these young athletes power foods packed with nutrients.

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Dayle Hayes, Sarah Klemm
2021
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The Champion Mindset: An Athlete’s Guide to Mental Toughness

Champions, as the familiar adage preaches, are not born―they’re made. Reaching the top of any sport, or any aspect of life, takes years upon years of dedication and proper preparation.

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Joanna Zeiger
2017
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The Best: How Elite Athletes are Made

Never have the best sportspeople seemed so far removed from the rest of us. So how are these extraordinary athletes made and what do their achievements tell us about success? THE BEST reveals how the most incredible sportspeople in the world got that way.

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Mark Williams, Tim Wigmore
2025
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How to Avoid Burnout in Youth Sports

A couple of months of the year, encourage them to do something else. If they play soccer, they could switch off to tennis.

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Jane E. Brody
2018
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Winning: The Psychology of Competition

This book is designed to explain why winners win, why losers lose―and why everyone else finishes in the same position time after time. Addressing the competitor―whether in sailing, tennis, golf, baseball, or other sport―Stuart H.

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Stuart H. Walker
1986
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Gender and Competition: How Men and Women Approach Work and Play Differently

A fascinating look at how men and women approach competition both on and off the court. Noted author and lecturer Kathleen J. DeBoer first examines many of the non-physical differences between the sexes (their values and fears, conversation, behavior, psychological adjustment, etc.

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Kathleen J. Deboer
2004
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Raising Tomorrow’s Champions: What the Women’s National Soccer Team Teaches Us About Grit, Authenticity and Winning

An extraordinary parenting and life lessons book as told through the eyes of the greatest women’s soccer players of all-time, including Mia Hamm, Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Abby Wambach, Crystal Dunn and more than 100 others.

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Joanna Lohman, Paul Tukey, Carli Lloyd (foreword)
2025
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Competition Is the Best Workout Motivation, Study Finds

Lack of physical activity has been shown to increase the risk of chronic illness and mortality. Yet, a large part of the American population fails to meet the government’s recommendations for physical activity. According to a new study, competition might be the key to getting us to workout more.

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Ana Sandolu
2016
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Age Shouldn’t Be a Barrier to Playing Competitive Sports

To stay healthy and fit, older people have traditionally been advised to take up gentle activities, such as walking and tai chi. But it’s time we added competitive sports to the mix.

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Claire Jenkin
2018
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10 Summer Olympic Sports You’re Not Too Old to Qualify For

If you’re really dedicated to making a name for yourself in sport, you may still have a shot at winning gold. If you’re, say, 35 years old, you probably shouldn’t expect to become a world-class gymnast.

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Laura Williams
2020
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