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How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind Over Muscle
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W. Timothy Gallwey · 141 pages
Concentrates upon overcoming mental attitudes that adversely affect tennis performance, including learning to relax, effectively concentrating, and discarding bad habits.
The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance
Steven Kotler · 234 pages
"An exploration of how extreme athletes are able to break the limits of ultimate human performance and what we can learn from their mastery of the state of consciousness known as "flow." "--
Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success
Matthew Syed · 312 pages
In this thoughtful, provocative book, a former Olympian persuasively demonstrates how sports offer powerful and often overlooked tools with which to explore fundamental subjects, including biology, morality, globalization, culture, gender, race, and economics.
The Mental Game of Poker
Jared Tendler · 241 pages
The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch
Jonathan Gottschall · 296 pages
"When a mixed martial arts (MMA) gym moves in across the street from his office, Jonathan Gottschall sees a challenge, and an opportunity. Pushing forty, out of shape, and disenchanted with his job as an adjunct English professor, part of him yearns to cross the street and join up. The other part is terrified. Gottschall eventually works up his nerve, and starts training for a real cage fight. He'
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell · 320 pages
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their
The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart
Amby Burfoot · 150 pages
Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won
Tobias J. Moskowitz, L. Jon Wertheim · 278 pages
In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost. Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow economi
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami · 179 pages
Meb For Mortals: Harness the Training Methods of a Champion Marathoner to Achieve Peak Running Performance
Meb Keflezighi, Scott Douglas · 196 pages
Mile Markers: The 26.2 Most Important Reasons Why Women Run
Kristin Armstrong · 279 pages
"Built on the success of her popular blog on RunnersWorld.com, Kristin Armstrongs new book is an intensely personal look at how running creates a special sense of community for the women who participate, and how it has helped her and many others mark the milestones of their lives. Each of the 26 chapters (the .2 is the epilogue) is dedicated to a specific theme, such as Friendship, Gratitude, Heal
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck · 277 pages
Mindset is one of those rare books that can help you make positive changes in your life and at the same time see the world in a new way.A leading expert in motivation and personality psychology, Carol Dweck has discovered in more than twenty years of research that our mindset is not a minor personality quirk: it creates our whole mental world. It explains how we become optimistic or pessimistic. I
Arnold: The Education of a Bodybuilder
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall · 256 pages
Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
Rich Roll · 288 pages
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
Joshua Foer · 307 pages
The blockbuster phenomenon that charts an amazing journey of the mind while revolutionizing our concept of memory “Highly entertaining.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker “Funny, curious, erudite, and full of useful details about ancient techniques of training memory.” —The Boston Globe An instant bestseller that has now become a classic, Moonwalking with Einstein recounts Joshua Foer's yearlo
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
David Epstein · 338 pages
This book explores the roles of both genetics and training in athletic success, arguing that both are equally necessary components of athletic achievement while considering such topics as race, gender, and genetic testing.We all knew a star athlete in high school. The one who made it look so easy. He was the starting quarterback and shortstop; she was the all-state point guard and high-jumper. Nat
Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Setting Run Across Americ a
Marshall Ulrich
Sole Sisters: Stories of Women and Running
Jennifer Lin, Susan Warner · 136 pages
"Half of all runners are women, and they are changing the face of the sport. It's a social outlet, a healthful way to improve mental well-being, and an opportunity to form bonds with like-minded women. Sole Sisters: Stories of Women and Running is a gripping collection of stories that captures the inspirational heart of the women's running boom. Authors Jennifer Lin and Susan Warner have interview
To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person
Martin Dugard · 255 pages
With an exuberant mix of passion, insight, instruction, and humor, best-selling author--and lifelong runner--Martin Dugard takes a journey through the world of running to illustrate how the sport helps us fulfill that universal desire to be the best possible version of ourselves each and every time we lace up our shoes. Spinning colorful yarns of his running and racing adventures on six continents
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School
John Medina · 304 pages
Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know—such as the brain's need for physical activity to work at its best.How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget—and so important to repeat new knowledge? Is