The Mental Performance Toolbox
Applied Systems for Coaches
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Tools matter because pressure does not respond to good intentions.
Book 2 built the room — the brain, the environment, the leadership, and the standard that holds a program together. This book fills it. The Mental Performance Toolbox is the applied-systems installment of the Capacity series: breath work, anchors, visualization, self-talk, and self-scouting tools athletes can actually reach for when the heart rate spikes and the crowd gets loud.
It also tackles two things every coach manages but few name out loud — the real math of fairness and playtime, and the permission a room needs to fail without falling apart. Not the slogan version. The version that shows up on a cold Tuesday night when somebody just made the same mistake for the third time.
Inside you'll find a five-tool mental performance system (breath, anchor, visualization, self-talk, self-scout), the difference between equal and fair and how to explain it to a locker room, scripts for the playtime conversation parents actually want to hear, and a framework for turning failure into information instead of punishment.
Stop managing moments. Start building a toolbox.
Details
- Publication Date
- Aug 19, 2026
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9798994748084
- Category
- Sports
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Eric Batchler
Specifications
- Pages
- 207
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)
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