Highly reviewed sport books

You will find in this book all the fundamental and innovative ideas of fitness, workout techniques, preparing for competitions, diet from forefront competitor in modern bodybuilding. The Encyclopaedia of modern bodybuilding will answer every question that any devoted bodybuilding enthusiast could possible ask. This is a detailed guide and training manual that discusses all aspects of this discipline.

Nike CEO and board member Phil Knight tells the inside story of the early days of the company as an intrepid start-up and its transformation into one of the most popular, game-changing, and lucrative companies in the world for the first time in this candid yet riveting autobiography. Old, ambitious, fresh from business school, Phil Knight borrowed fifty dollars from his dad and started up a company with a basic mission: to manufacture high-quality, low-cost running shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from his Plymouth Valiant’s boot, Knight grossed the first year, 1963, eight thousand dollars. Today, Nike’s over $30 billion in global revenue. Knight’s Nike is the gold standard for the era of start-ups, and his swoosh is more than a mark. This is one of the only symbols immediately remembered in any part of the world, a sign of beauty and greatness. Yet Knight, the guy behind the swoosh, has been since then a total mystery. Now he’s actually sharing his story in a memoir that’s unexpected, honest, unfiltered, sweet, and beautifully written. Twenty-four years old, backpacking around the world, wondering about with the Great Questions of Life, Knight determines that he must pursue the unconventional path. Knight provides descriptions of the most frightening dangers he faced along the way, the crippling defeats, the relentless rivals, the countless doubters and haters and aggressive bankers. He remembers, above all, the fundamental connections that shaped Nike’s heart and soul, with his longtime track mentor, the irascible and energetic Bill Bowerman. Together, harnessing a visionary mindset and a common faith in sport’s redemptive, they built a product and culture that changed everything.

A simple and innovative approach to optimize the use of oxygen in your body, boost your health, weight loss and success in sports. One of the most overseen issue in health or sport performances is over-breathing. We often take way more breaths than we need, it actually results into poor health, anxiety, asthma and more.
In The Oxygen Advantage, you will learn schietificially validated techniques to help you breathe more naturally and more effectively. The books teaches you how to boost your BOLT rating by using light breathing techniques and learning how to mimic high-altitude practice, a method used by Navy SEALs and elite athletes to help enhance strength, weight gain, and vital red blood cells to significantly improve cardio-fitness.

Steinberg is not focused on the pros who live off the prize money and sponsorships, but on a group of triathletes who find the event to be a hobby. Capturing beautifully the grueling training, the excitement of finishing the triathlon competition, and the stunning human endurance attributes, Steinberg is plumbing the physical and emotional burden as well as the mental payoff on the Ford Ironman Arizona 2009 competitors. You Are an Ironman is both a tale about athletics and a compelling analysis behind the scenes about what keeps these champions on the move.

With detailed explanations, step-by-step instructions, and beautiful anatomical full-color diagrams, Pilates Anatomy takes you beyond the workouts and programs that relax the muscle, strengthen the core, enhance stability, and maximize flexibility. Using Joseph Pilates’ initial mat training, you’ll see which main muscles are used, how differences and subtle changes can affect performance, and how pacing, balance, stance, and motion are all profoundly related. Choosing from over 45 movements, you can follow a particular body area and dig further to relax, improve, and precisely organize your muscles. Whether you’re only starting to appreciate Pilates’ beauty and benefits or you’ve been learning for years, Pilates Anatomy is a one-of-a-kind guide you’re going to regularly return to.

Taormina teaches swimmers and triathletes in Swim Speed Strokes that they can compete in all four swimming strokesbutterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle with exceptional technique. Using crystal-clear images and their entertaining, concise style, Coach Taormina describes the physics behind strength and pace in the pool, discusses the components essential to each stroke and investigates the stroke techniques in detail in individual chapters. Swim Speed Strokes goes deep into the technique of each stroke, breaking down thepull, kick, core motion and pacing. Taormina interviews 13 elite swimmers and Olympians and analyzes underwater images and race stroke data to break down their technique in the in all four swimmings. Whether you need to learn every stroke and only work on your strongest one, Swim Speed Strokes can teach you how to become best swimmer you can be.

Victoria Whitworth began bathing in Orkney’s freezing waters as a way of immediate relief from a failing marriage and a variety of health problems. Her interactions with the nature, new friends she met over four years merged to change her life. The novel is a love letter to the beach where she frequently swims and her microcosmic world, the ever-changing weather where the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean converge, and to the seals, her constant companions.

On the morning of December 22, 2005, when he was hit by and pulled under a 20-ton bus making an improper right, Matt Long was biking to work in the early hours. He was brought close to death by the injuries he suffered. Miraculously, Matt was able to recover after more than 40 operations and months later. Matt found the emotional and psychological consequences of the incident to be the hardest to handle, in spite of the severity of his wounds. He had runned in over 20 events including many triathlons and marathons in the 18 months leading up to the crash and qualified for the most prestigious race ever, the Boston Marathon. The book chronicles Matt’s path to healing as he trains himself to walk again and race a gimpy seven-and-a-half-hour in the 2008 New York City Marathon, merely three years later.

Today, in his book Training Essentials for Ultrarunning, the pioneering trainer of the sport makes his highly successful ultramarathon preparation techniques open to ultrarunners of all abilities. Nevertheless, ultramarathons aren’t all just merely extended marathons; only running more obviously won’t prepare you enough for this ultra race. Ultramarathon needs a new, unique learning method. Training Essentials for Ultrarunning is going to revolutionize preparation for those who want to run an ultramarathon instead of only bringing it to the finish line. The race-proven ultramarathon system of Koops is focused on sound science, the newest study, and years of experience in podium success training the star runners of the event. Training Essentials for Ultrarunning is the latest, must-have guide for first-timers and veterans of ultramarathons, filled with useful tips and vetted learning techniques. When ultramarathoners lose old habits and adopt the wiser approaches that are best proven by research and practice, the best performances comes at reach. With tales and tips from Dakota Jones, Kaci Lickteig, Dylan Bowman, Timothy Olson, and others working with Koop, Training Essentials for Ultrarunning is the go-to manual for first-time ultra runners and skilled ultramarathoners.

You tap into a strong mind-body link by adding mental training to your running routine that not only optimizes athletic success, but also enhances satisfaction on and off the tracks. Mindful Running draws together science research, professional insight, and elite athlete insights to show how connecting to your mind, body, and community in a different way can help you run longer and better, as well as improve your overall cognitive, emotional, and physical wellbeing. It’s also teaching you to handle more comfortably all kind of challenges. Mindful Running is a full workout routine for the body and brain.