Mental training in shooting by Anne Grethe Jeppesen and Anne Marte Pensgaard

Front Sight by Marco Masetti.

Marco Masetti is a ISSF Coach Class B. He has been a head coach of the senior pistol team (IT) and his shooters have been in the podium in the olympic games, European Championships, Workd Cups and finals.

This book is a collection of his notes as a coach including training methodology, training plans, camps, scatt analysis and more.

Available as ebook and print from Amazon.

A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold and Beyond by Abhinav Bindra

This book is available in print, ebook and audiobook. It’s a great story about Abhinav Bindra and his road to Indias first individual olympic goal medal.

This book was published in 1988 and contains the following chapters:

• Goal setting, First Steps to Being a Champion
• The Training Plan, A Guide to Shooting Success
• The Training Plan (cont.), A Guide for the Serious Shooter
• Visualization as Mental Training
• A Winning Self Image With, Positive Thinking
• Building the Champion Shooter, From Inner Resources
• Creating the Winner’s Image, Using Affirmations
• Music for Relaxation
• Planning The Champion’s Travel, Across The Twilight Zones
• The Shooting Diary, A Necessity For Excellence
• How to Shoot Better in The Wind
• Exercise for Shooters, Stretches & Warm Ups
• Calisthenics And Exercising, With Weights
• Regulating Physical Training, With a Pulse Chart
• Hints for Good Nutrition

Great resource on how to create a training plan for the goals that is defined in chapter 1. There has been a lot of development in the goal setting process after this book was written, but understanding how goals and training plans are connected is important.

Wishes -> Desires -> Long Term Goals -> Intermediate Goals -> Training Schedule -> Daily Goals -> Winning!

This book is also out of print, but you can find a used copy at online resellers as eBay and amazon.

This book was translated from Russian using Google Translate. NRA did a proper translation to english that was published in 1985. It’s been long out of print, but you can find a copy online on eBay.

Competive shooting was written by Dr. Aleksandr A. Yur’yev and this third edition was published in 1973.

A. A. Yur’yev’s book is a unique encyclopedia of competitive rifle and pistol shooting.