Don't just push harder. Capacity turns potential into performance.
You need real-time tools to protect confidence and maximize growth. Capacity is a practical playbook for the mental game — tools plus culture, ethics, and leadership. Built around two anchors — Capacity vs. Potential, and the ACCESS ethics for constrained sports — it turns pressure into preparation and protects confidence, health, and growth.
Through vivid, real-world stories and a usable toolkit, you'll learn to read environments, set boundaries, lead peers, and perform under stress — without losing your love of the game. Inside, you'll find a shared language for the mental side of sport (potential vs. capacity, sand in the cup, fair vs. equal), hands-on tools including ARR (Anchor–Reframe–Reset), scripted visualization and recovery, progressive muscle relaxation, factual self-talk, and a 60-second capacity scan you can run before any practice or game.
Written for athletes, coaches, and the parents and administrators around them, Capacity doesn't sell grit as a cure-all or confuse toughness with harm. It gives you scripts, not slogans — a way to protect a competitor's ceiling instead of just demanding more from the floor.
Details
- Publication Date
- Aug 19, 2026
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9798994748008
- Category
- Sports
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Eric Batchler
Specifications
- Pages
- 326
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Color
- Dimensions
- US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)
Keywords
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