Mental and Physical fitness for sailing by Alan Beggs, John Derbyshire & John Whitmore

This book describes the psychological strategies the world class sailors use to set goals, manage stress and build confidence. Part 3 contains photo sequences of sailing-specific exercises that can be used to build an individual training programme.

• Set goals for confidence building and competition.
• Learn effective self-talk and straight thinking.
• Make stress work for you, not against you.
• Harness the power of visualisation.
• Learn to stay focussed so that you can cope with distractions.
• Build and maintain the on-boat relationships that really work.
• Plan your own fitness programme.
• Aerobic and Anaerobic exercises.
• Recognise the value of rest and recovery.
• Learn now to train both on the water and in the gym.