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  A Sporting Chance - How Ludwig...

  Lori Alexander

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  Telling the inspiring human story behind the creation of the Paralympics, this young listener's biography showcases a riveting narrative to honor the life of Ludwig Guttmann, whose work profoundly changed so many lives.
  
  Dedicating his life to helping patients labeled ""incurables,"" Ludwig Guttmann fought for the rights of paraplegics to live a full life. The young doctor believed—and eventually proved—that physical movement is key to healing, a discovery that led him to create the first Paralympic Games.
  
  Told with moving text, and featuring the life stories of athletes from the Paralympic Games Ludwig helped create, this story of the man who saved lives through sports will inspire listeners of all backgrounds.
  
  A supplemental PDF containing historical photographs and a timeline of events is included.

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  Warrior's Mind The: For Race...

  Enzo Mucci

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  This is elite level mental training for Race Drivers. 
  To be a true champion you must remain mentally resourceful and access your skills whilst competing in an unpredictable and dangerous environment. In head-to-head battles you must outthink, outmanoeuvre and outperform your rivals. 
  You must do this whilst risking your life and limbs as you fight your way to victory. To perform at your best in such an environment you need to share the same mental coding as a thoroughbred warrior. 
  In this book you will be walked through the whole process for recoding your mind so you can create the warrior mindset needed to reach your North Star. You will build a mental model that will help you automatically perform as you want. What you are about to learn here has been tried, tested and proven to work in all levels of motorsport. This is designed to help you reach your next level. 
  Highlights of what is covered in the Warrior’s Mind: 
  • Create a warrior’s mental model 
  • Reinstall a new belief system 
  • Prime your mind 
  • Control your emotions 
  • Have bulletproof self-belief 
  • Handle fear and nerves 
  • Overcome your past 
  • Learn leadership skills 
  • Deal with criticism 
  • Overcome challenges. 
  The real battlefield is in your mind; so be the commander.

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  Entrenamiento para ciclistas...

  Roy M. Wallack, Jacques DeVore

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  Entrenamiento para ciclistas. Sobrecargas máximas es un innovador programa de entrenamiento basado en la fuerza y destinado a aumentar la velocidad de los ciclistas, la longevidad deportiva y la salud general en la mitad de tiempo. Una vez de mejorar la tolerancia física recorriendo distancias más largas sobre la bici, aprenderás a hacerlo reduciendo el tiempo que pasas pedaleando e incorporando el entrenamiento de la fuerza y la potencia. Tradicionalmente, los ciclistas y los deportistas de fondo han evitado este tipo de entrenamiento, creyendo que el paso adicional del músculo los volvería más lentos; sin embargo, los autores Jacques DeVore y Roy M. Wallack te demuestran exactamente lo contrario.
   
  El programa de sobrecargas máximas recurre al levantamiento de pesas para generar potencia sostenible y mejorar la velocidad a la vez que reduce drásticamente el tiempo de entrenamiento y elimina el temido deterioro que se suele producir durante la segunda mitad de las pruebas físicas. Una sesión de sobrecargas máximas de 40 minutos, dos o tres veces por semana, remplaza un largo día sobre el sillín y obtiene resultados incluso mejores.
   
  Este programa general aporta una perspectiva única sobre la dieta, el entrenamiento con intervalos, las sesiones duras y fáciles de entrenamiento y la potencia sostenible. Respaldado por reconocidas figuras del deporte. Entrenamiento para ciclistas. Sobrecargas máximas en un libro del que no puede prescindir ningún ciclista.

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  Basketball (and Other Things) -...

  Shea Serrano, Reggie Miller

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  Who is the greatest dunker of all time? Which version of the Michael Jordan was the best Michael Jordan? What is allowed and absolutely not allowed in a game of pickup basketball? Basketball (and Other Things) presents listeners with a whole new set of pivotal and ridiculous fan disputes from basketball history, providing arguments and answers, explained with the wit and wisdom that is unique to Shea Serrano. Serrano breaks down debates that NBA fans didn't even know they needed, from the classic (How many years during his career was Kobe Bryant actually the best player in the league?) to the fantastical (If you could assign different values to different shots throughout basketball history, what would they be and why?). This book is a must-have for anyone who has ever stayed up late into the night debating basketball's greatest moments, what-ifs, stories, and legends, or for those who are discovering the mythology of basketball for the first time.

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  The Character of Cricket

  Tim Heald

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  During one long summer during the mid-1980's, Tim Heald toured England, absorbing the flavour of at least one cricket ground in every first-class county, and a good many more besides. He wanted to discover the true character of the English game, among those who ate, slept and dreamt cricket in all corners of the country. The results are charming, heart-warmingly funny, and often surprising. In conversation with the kind of people who give the game its backbone -a gateman at Leicester, the groundsman at Swansea, a programme-seller at Bristol, a quintessential cricket-mad parson at Chelmsford -the author evokes some colourful ghosts, from the ubiquitous W.G. Grace (once punched in the face in Northampton) to Prebendary Wickham of Martock, and hears some strange stories -the Derbyshire captain absconding with the cash (and ending up as a tailor for the King of Spain); the Nottinghamshire team fielding in lounge suits; the match in which the schoolboy Douglas Jardine was reduced to tears by Gubby Allen's gamesmanship. The Character of Cricket is both a celebration of the national game and an evocation of a particular way of life -happily one still pursued in the England of today. "Cricket books should meet one or more of these necessary requirements, being either literate and amusing to read, or meticulously researched, or original in concept. Tim Heald's The Character of Cricket triumphantly meets all three." Benny Green, Sunday Times"First-rate stuff, in the great and ... timeless tradition of English cricket writing." Punch

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  Ridin' High Livin' Free -...

  Keith Zimmerman, Kent Zimmerman,...

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  An angel spreads his wings. . . . Sonny Barger is the number-one spokesman for the motorcycle experience. His New York Times bestseller, Hell's Angel, was an exhilarating history of his adventures with the world's most notorious motorcycle club. Now he brings us rousing, moving, and wildly entertaining true stories of his renegade brothers and sisters in the relentless pursuit of liberty, individuality, and the "ultimate ride." And what stories he has to tell -- freewheeling, bare-knuckle tales of brawls and battles, brotherhood, breathtaking adventures, crazy quests, and the inevitable classic scrapes with "John Law." The most colorful legends and unforgettable characters of biker lore come alive in this book. In addition, celebrities like Steve McQueen, Johnny Paycheck, and David Crosby thunder through these pages in a sensational collection of rebel tales that runs the gamut from poignant and inspiring to thrilling and utterly outrageous. Whether you ride, have never ridden, or dream of riding, Ridin' High, Livin' Free is a reading experience you won't soon forget -- a fascinating glimpse into a unique culture of freedom that recognizes only one commandment: the code of the road.

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