Scott Douglas

If you ask research psychologist Noel Brick and bestselling fitness writer Scott Douglas, the “dumb jock” stereotype is way out of bounds. No world-class athlete succeeds without a strong mental game, including unique ways of analyzing situations, self-motivating, and even thinking about time. Cutting-edge discoveries (some by Dr. Brick himself) reveal how champions do it—and how we can, too. Brick and Douglas pair groundbreaking science with instructive moments across the sports realm to show how legendary athletes like marathoner Meb Keflezighi, World Cup champion soccer player Megan Rapinoe, and Olympian Michael Phelps stay on top of their game. Whether it’s sticking the landing at a job interview or racing your thesis to the finish line, Strong Minds is a slam-dunk approach for accomplishing anything. Publisher’s note: Strong Minds was previously published in hardcover as The Genius of Athletes.

Explore how to train smarter and remain injury-free. Competing in a marathon requires thorough and intelligent preparation. Advanced Marathoning, Fourth Edition, gives you all the information you need to benefit from a training program that combines coaching best practices with the latest sport science. Written for serious runners, by the duo behind the hugely successful first three editions, this edition is now in full color and includes the marathon training principles and training programs that thousands of marathon runners have used to set personal bests. From among the detailed day-by-day training schedules, you can choose between 18- and 12-week preparation and select weekly distances of less than 55 miles, 55 to 70, 70 to 85, or over 85 miles. Use the expanded guidance on how to adjust those training schedules to enjoy flexibility in your workouts and make the time for proper recovery. Get new information on heart rate training and guidance on how to avoid overtraining and overreaching. The profiles of elite and non-elite runners give you an insider look at how successful marathoners use the philosophies and techniques in this book to set and achieve challenging goals. Complement your running workouts with exercises for flexibility, core and whole-body strength, and aerobic cross-training to optimize performance and help keep injury at bay. Expert guidance on nutrition, hydration, and the importance of recovery as well as race-day strategies will help you conquer marathons with confidence.Advanced Marathoning gives ambitious marathoners the information needed to train smarter, remain injury-free, and cross the next finish line stronger and faster than ever.

Mark Kugan, trener olimpijskikh chempionov, ubezhden, chto dolgosrochnyj uspekh v bege vozmozhen tolko pri sokhranenii fizicheskogo i mentalnogo zdorovja. V knige on podrobno rasskazyvaet o metodakh trenirovok, kotorye pomogut vam stat bystree i silnee, ne zhertvuja pri etom zdorovem i schastem.Kniga soderzhit trenirovochnye plany dlja raznykh distantsij - ot 5 km do marafona, a takzhe sovety po pitaniju, vosstanovleniju, psikhologicheskoj podgotovke i predotvrascheniju travm. Mark delitsja istorijami svoikh uchenikov, pokazyvaja, chto kazhdyj mozhet dostich uspekha, esli podojti k trenirovkam osoznanno i s ljubovju k begu. Eta kniga - vash shans trenirovatsja s odnim iz luchshikh trenerov mira i ustanavlivat novye lichnye rekordy.Perevod Dari Kirienko

We all know the story of creation in the Bible. In the beginning, God created. But what if creation isn't where things started? Not in the Bible anyway. What if the first book of the Bible wasn't about creation...it was about pain.Scholars have debated for years about what the first book of the Bible really is. Most have concluded that the Book of Job was probably the first book written.Think about that: what if the message God wanted us to receive wasn't about how we were created, but what to do when life gets bad.Being a Christian means happiest. Joy. It means you get that white picket fence and have friends that bring you companionship. Hardship and spiritual warfare may be words that Christians know, but it's not exactly something we talk about.Job is a complicated and messy story because it address the elephant in the giant room that is Christianity: that believing in God doesn't mean happiness. Or wealth. Or even goodness.Job is a story that teaches us an ugly truth about what we believe: that things aren't always better on the other side of the mountain-that good things don't always happen to good people-and that sometimes life is just messed up.Most people know the story of Job. He's the guy who had bad things happen to him. But we often look to the story as more a Sunday school fairytale. Sure, it's believable. But we often look at it as a moral tale about a guy who had it all taken away.There's more to it than that. Rarely do we study it to find out what God is trying to teach us.The lesson here is deep, and one every believe should hear.

Achieve peak running performance with Coach Coogan. Good racing doesn’t just happen. It’s a skill that must be honed with training and hard work. In Personal Best Running, Coach Mark Coogan shares his successful formula for running fast-while staying healthy and happy-without running taking over your life. Coach Coogan has excelled in running as both an athlete and coach, producing numerous Olympic and champion runners. His success is founded in his belief that long-term running success is impossible if you’re not training and racing in the right environment and that running should never come at the expense of your overall physical or mental health. In addition to training strategies that will shave minutes off your time, Coach Coogan will also show you how to sleep and eat properly, surround yourself with supportive people, psychologically navigate setbacks and challenges, lower your injury risk, and have a life outside of running. Get the physical and psychological strategies needed to build an aerobic base, balance hard work and recovery, achieve good running form, and turn adversity into an advantage. Learn the importance of strengthening and warm-up exercises, and master running drills that will make you a stronger runner. Plus, access the 30 online video clips that showcase the exercises and drills in action. Coogan provides numerous training schedules for the mile, 5K, 10K, half marathon, and marathon as well as schedules for running multiple races in a short period of time. For each distance, choose the length of training (from 6 weeks to 16 weeks) and weekly mileage range. The plans are supplemented with training and racing tips to help you better understand how to apply the concepts to your own running strategy. You’ll also get a personal look at what successful runners do as Coach Coogan shares some of his own experiences as a runner and coach. And you’ll draw plenty of motivation and inspiration from the athlete profiles of eight of his accomplished runners, including Drew Piazza, Alexi Pappas, and Elle St. Pierre. If you want to run better and race faster, now is your chance to train with Coach Coogan and Personal Best Running.Earn continuing education credits! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately, or as part of a package that includes both the book and the exam.

Elite endurance athletes - including runners, cyclists, and swimmers - know that success hinges as much on how they use their minds as on how well they've trained their bodies. Long before race day, they've developed a rich arsenal of cognitive strategies that they incorporate into their long-term training regimens to unlock peak performance, from effective goal-setting and ingenious habit forming techniques to developing resilience and increasing self-belief. And now a growing body of evidence is showing that these strategies can help the rest of us achieve whatever we set our minds to in sport and life. Combining cutting-edge science, illustrative stories from the world's top endurance athletes and practical instruction, The Genius of Athletes arms us with proven tools for reaching high and meeting our goals - whether it's running a marathon or any other personal or professional challenge.

★★★ A box set of two Christian books ★★★The books takes Biblical topics, and strips them down to their purest state so you can reconsider them in ways you may have never thought about before.The bundle inclues "Jesus Ascended. What Does That Mean?" and "Bethlehem, the Night Jesus Was Born.""Jesus Ascended. What Does That Mean?" exploeres the 40 days after the resurrection, and how it changed the lives of the disciples."Bethlehem, the Year Jesus Was Born" looks at the real history of Christmas. It looks beyond what we have come to know from church Christmas pagents, and investigates the theology behind the season.See why thousands of readers have already been inspired by these two best-selling books

Do you want to make money in the markets while protecting your stock holdings? Despite recent uncertainty in the stock market, you can take advantage of great opportunities as they unfold today. The question is: How do you protect your hard-earned dollars while still being able to generate significant returns?The conservative call option strategy of selling covered calls offers you the rare opportunity to create some additional monthly income while providing you with some downside protection.2020 is shaping up to be a challenging year for investors. You may have seen your stock portfolio being decimated in the recent crash. Or, you may be wondering how to invest in such troubled times.This guide focuses on how to select market leaders in the stock market that'll generate a monthly stream of income from covered calls being sold on those holdings. Not only that, when you learn more about what covered calls can do in protecting your holdings, you'll gain greater peace of mind knowing that you can build in a cushion of protection for your stocks. Wouldn't that be better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick?When I first heard about the options market, I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was amazed by the number of people who were consistently generating monthly returns from covered calls. Fast forward to today and people thank me for how the insights provided in this book have changed their lives and made it possible to create an additional income stream from their stocks.In this book, you'll discover: - What 3 smart investment vehicles self-made millionaires all use that you can tap into right away.- 7 global trends poised to explode over the next five years.- How to assess the profitability of potential market leaders using a handful of simple assessment criteria.- The only 3 conservative call strategies you need to use to grow and protect your investments- How to best structure your stock investment portfolio so that you reduce your overall risk in the markets.- How to best enter and exit positions, whether they be a stock holding or covered call.and much more...Geared towards the novice stock investor, you'll discover how simple it is to safely move into and out of the markets like a stealth ninja. There's no better time to invest in the stock market than just after a major correction. Stop struggling trying to figure it out all on your own.Isn't it about time that you found out how to improve your financial situation, even if you've never had any success in the stock market before?Imagine generating a relatively passive income stream that you could potentially use for a well-deserved vacation, pay for college, or just create a better lifestyle for you and your loved ones. Wouldn't that make you happier than a clam at high tide?

★ The story of Christmas like you've never heard before ★The Bible teaches us the real story of Christmas. The problem is people have taken this story and added on to it. Cultures have added on to it. It's passed through countries, and they've tacked on their little spin.We have thousands of years of a Christmas that is built around legends and myths. The Christmas we know is, in places, more a fairytale. It's an inspiring one for sure. But a fairytale, nonetheless.When you begin to unwrap the many layers of the first Christmas, you begin to see that there's more to Christmas than meets the eye. God is giving us a message-a gift to unwrap. This book helps us slow down and unpack the layers so we can see just how beautiful this gift really is.This is the story of Christmas. Christmas: God's gift to us.This book is a stand alone title of the Organic Faith series.

If you want to quickly rebound from the economic downturn, then keep reading ...The global coronavirus pandemic and resulting shutdown of the economy have left many devastated. Not a single family in North America has been spared. The impact can be felt everywhere.Massive job losses, the shutdown of entire industries, travel restrictions, and social distancing are now the norm. We're living within a new world order. And we're all feeling the financial impact of this turn of events.Many Americans have lost entire fortunes as a result of the recent stock market meltdown. Seeing your investment portfolio being decimated in the wake of this global health crisis is disheartening. How do you fathom even getting back to even?Despite being caught in the middle of this recent economic downturn, things will REBOUND. All major market crashes turn around. Isn't it about time for you to create your own economic stimulus package?All major stock market corrections create investment opportunities enabling you to take advantage of mispricings in the stock market. Knowing how to capitalize on this turn of events becomes the challenge. This is where Stock Market Rebound comes in. This step-by-step guide takes you by the hand and walks you through a momentum investing approach that takes advantage of stock market corrections.Not all companies were impacted by the downturn of events. Some have been unfairly dragged down with the overall market making them potential momentum plays. When the stock market rebounds, and it always does, these stocks should see some major stock price appreciation.Momentum investing is not new. What is new is the context and the approach being used in this resource. Capital preservation should be foremost on your mind.This is why the momentum investing approach outlined in this book incorporates covered call writing into the discussion to protect your hard-earned capital.Not only will you learn how to reduce risk, you'll also learn how to generate cash flow into your brokerage account when the momentum behind a stock slows. Important knowledge to tap into, right?You're about to discover - When to expect a rebound in the economy and what it might look like? - What 3 types of companies make excellent momentum picks?- Why you should avoid the BEACH industries? - Which industries will bounce back quickly? - What handful of indicators are the most helpful in analyzing prospects? - How to safely enter the market and best time momentum plays? - How do you limit risk while augmenting your returns? - When to use covered calls to protect your positions and generate monthly income? and much more...Not only that, you'll also see firsthand how various investment scenarios could play out. An entire section is devoted to exploring several case studies so you can better apply the concepts being discussed in your guide.Even if you've never invested in the stock market before, Stock Market Rebound can provide you with enough insights to safely enter and exit momentum plays.The markets aren't going to wait for you. Isn't it about time to take back control?

A lot of ministry leaders and pastors want to be a part of a team within their church leadership. Teams accomplish more, together, and enjoy the synergy of a united leadership front. Sadly, most churches don't operate with a team mindset. Instead, they work apart from each other, even if their offices are next door. In 4C, we look at four elements of building and developing a healthy and effective ministry team: Calling, Character, Competency, and Chemistry. While this book is primarily aimed at lead pastors, any ministry leader can take the concepts and principles here and develop a team mindset. Whether team members are full-time, part-time, or volunteer, it's possible to have a team mindset in your church.

Do you like your humor served dry? Strap yourself in From the critically acclaimed author of "Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian," comes a collection of humor essays and sketches that further dives into the library world Douglas colorfully brought to life in his last book.Douglas also explores his typical childhood......you know the kind where you have a grandpa that electrocutes as a joke?Finally, Douglas takes the reader on an epic quest to find prophylactics in Baton Rouge, how he failed the high school reading test, and how he may be part of the new gay--amongst many others.If you need to find laugher in a world that sometimes feels void of it, then read on

Discover the Power of the Ascension. Something happened. Jesus rose. But Christ didn't just rise from the dead. He ascended to Heaven. We hear the stories about Peter and John and all the heroes of the New Testament, and they're unstoppable Christians--fearless and bold. And sometimes we wrongly assume that they just got that way. That Christ died for their sins, and bam They're instantly changed On the contrary, the disciples were actually quite cowardly in their actions after the Resurrection. It wasn't until after the Ascension that they were on fire for Christ. So, what happened during the forty days? Something happened. There's more written about Christ's ministry before his death than the events that happened after his Resurrection, but when we look at Ascension, we begin to see that there's power in small details. We begin to see that something happened after the Resurrection--something happened to transform the lives of believers and make them more than followers. Looking at what happened after the Resurrection, and further at the Ascension of Christ, we start to see what happened to transform the followers--and in seeing this we might just be transformed ourselves. Something did indeed happen during the forty days. Jesus was not done teaching.

Each unit video now has NEW "Work with the Video" pages in the Student Book to guide students in watching, understanding, and discussing the unit videos.NEW Critical Thinking Strategies and activities in every unit help students analyze, develop and justify their ideas. Online videos accompany each strategy to help students gain a deeper understanding.NEW skills videos provide illustrated explanations of skills and grammar points in the Student Book to support students' skills development.100% NEW unit, placement, midterm and final tests have been developed with feedback from real teachers.Clear learning outcomes and reflection worksheets encourage students to evaluate their own progress, reflect on their learning, and identify areas for improvement.iQ Online Practice is now suitable for mobile use which gives students greater flexibility in where and when they get extra skills practice, access audio and video, and check their progress. The NEW Extensive Reading program offers an Oxford Graded Reader aligned to each unit to motivate students in their reading.Vocabulary from the NEW Oxford Phrasal Academic Lexicon helps students to develop essential spoken and written language for their academic studies.Vocabulary from the Oxford 3000(TM) and new Oxford 5000(TM) provide students with the most frequent and relevant words they need in English, as chosen by language experts.

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Every Sunday a pastor has a clock that starts ticking as soon as the last song ends and the crowd begins to file out of the church. It's the inevitable timer that in 7 days another Sunday will be coming. Preaching is urgently essential today, and these six questions will help any pastor be ready for the next Sunday. These questions are: What text do I pick?What does the text mean?How is the text changing me?Who is my audience?Where is the Gospel?Why does it matter?Pastors of any tenure can benefit from reflecting on these questions, and in doing so stand firmly and faithfully on the Word.

Q: Skills for Success is renowned for helping students to achieve academic success in English. The Third Edition helps students to develop the techniques and critical thinking skills they need for academic study with new Critical Thinking Strategies, updated texts and topics and 100% new assessment.