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ADHD in Sport: Strategies for Success

Dr Josephine Perry

“This book is an invaluable guide for any young athlete wanting to build their mental toolkit, and practising the suggested exercises is a great way to kickstart success in sport and other areas of life”

Lizzie Simmonds
Double Olympian, Business Coach, Blogger

“This book will provide young athletes the opportunity to reach their full potential”

“This book is wonderfully accessible to younger athletes, with chapters and topics that will resonate with them in their lives both in and out of sport”

Laurence Halstead
two-time Olympian, Performance Director: Danish Fencing Federation, Director of Mentoring: The True Athlete Project

“This book is a go-to for any teenage athlete who wants to master their mindset”

Jo Davies
Chartered Sport Psychologist

“An insightful and practical approach providing much needed support and understanding for young people”

Jenny Coady
High Performance Coach Developer, UK Coaching, Performance Coach: West Ham United Women, Former International Basketball Player and Coach

“..‘I Can’ is an invaluable tool for young athletes to develop confidence, conquer their nerves, become braver, learn to deal with setbacks and control their emotions to help them to become successful in whatever they set their mind to”

James Spragg
Cycling Coach

“..this book is a valuable tool for anyone of any age hoping to achieve high-performance goals in sport – or any other endeavour for that matter”

James Cunnama
Professional Triathlete, South Africa

“..a must-read primer filled with accessible, practical, and evidence-based techniques for any teenager aspiring to harness their mindset for success”

Dr Andrew Wood
Department of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University

“I often wonder how many times I underperformed due to lack of confidence. “I Can” is what was missing”

Greg Bennett
Multiple Triathlon World Series Champion, Olympian, Podcast host - The Greg Bennett Show

“This book is not just key for young athletes, but also extremely useful for sport psychologists working with this population”

Dr Amy Whitehead,
School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University

“Learning lessons from this book may have helped me considerably through the trials and tribulations that is competitive sport. I could have won more medals, being more satisfied and probably been kinder to myself in general”

Jodie Swallow
Olympian, ITU Long Distance World Champion, Ironman 70.3 World Champion

“I’d have loved to have had this as a teenager”

Amy Williams MBE
Olympic Champion, Broadcaster, PT

Details

Paperback isbn: 9781914110481
£16.99
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 3rd April 2025

£16.99

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Table of contents

Introduction

1 Understanding the sporting brain

2 The impact of sport on your ADHD

3 How ADHD influences sporting performance

4 Wellbeing strategies

5 Training strategies

6 Competition strategies for ADHD athletes

7 Common ADHD co-occurring conditions

8 Medication

9 Coaching an athlete with ADHD

10 Supporting an athlete with ADHD

About the book

Some athletes with ADHD describe it as their superpower; seeing that the creativity, hyperfocus and speedy decision making amplifies their potential sporting success. Other athletes with ADHD find that narrative infuriating as they try to handle executive dysfunctions, emotional dysregulation and difficulties in focusing alongside the frustrations of trying to thrive in a neurotypically designed sporting environment. This book is written with all these athletes in mind; from juniors starting out in school teams through to elites making their careers in professional sport and adults using sport to stay mentally regulated, maintain social connections and boost confidence.
ADHD in Sport: Strategies for Success illuminates the ADHD brain in sporting environments, looks at the benefits of exercise on ADHD, the impact of ADHD traits on sporting performance, has chapters full of tools to help wellbeing, training and competition, information on co-occurring conditions and ADHD medication in sport and concludes with chapters for coaches, parents and partners to help them successfully support and scaffold.
If you have ADHD (or spend time with those who do) then this book will give you tools, techniques and strategies to thrive and succeed in sport.

About the author

Dr Josephine Perry is a Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist who supports those in sport, on stage and in the professions to maximise their success. She specialises in supporting those with performance anxiety and athletes with ADHD. She writes extensively in the media and has published five other books including: Performing under Pressure: Strategies for Sporting Success, ICan: The Teenage Athlete’s Guide to Mental Fitness and The 10 Pillars of Success.

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