Sports Development

19 luglio 1996, Atlanta. Cerimonia d'apertura della ventiseiesima olimpiade. La fiaccola olimpica entra nello stadio portata dal lanciatore del disco Al Oerter, poi passa nelle mani del campione del mondo dei pesi massimi Evander Holyfield e della vincitrice dei 100 ostacoli di Barcellona Voula Patoulidou. L'ultimo tedoforo è la nuotatrice statunitense Janet Evans che si inerpica su per le tribune. In cima, ad attenderla, c'è qualcuno che la aspetta dietro una quinta. Ancora invisibile agli spettatori e agli occhi delle telecamere.

Metti insieme uno dei volti più noti del telegiornalismo italiano, un filosofo francese di successo e il simbolo del tennis internazionale. Il risultato? L'audiolibro "I silenzi di Federer" di André Scala edito da Volume Audiobooks. Un saggio raffinato e illuminante su Roger Federer scritto da un filosofo e scrittore francese, acuto nell'analisi e nella sua capacità di valorizzare del campione svizzero persino la comunicazione non verbale e quella intra-personale.

Quella di Richard "Dick" Norris Williams potrebbe essere una storia notevole, ma per forza non più notevole di altre. Quella di un tennista, tra i migliori al principio del '900, quando il tennis era ancora un passatempo per le classi agiate. Un campione con dei successi e degli allori, ma in fondo niente altro da segnalare.

È il 19 agosto del 2008. C'è il sole a Pechino. Nello stadio olimpico a forma di nido si corre la quinta batteria dei 200 metri donne. La prima a tagliare il traguardo è la giamaicana Veronica Campbell Brown in 23"04. L'ultima è una ragazza di 17 anni, alta e magra, con i pantaloncini lunghi fino alle ginocchia, una fascia tergisudore sulla fronte e le scarpe regalatele da un'atleta della squadra sudanese. Chiude in 32"16.

29 luglio 1996, stadio olimpico di Atlanta. Finale del salto in lungo maschile. E' l'ultima gara della lunghissima carriera di Carl Lewis. Un atleta straordinario, capace di eguagliare il mito di Jesse Owens: vincere 4 medaglie d'oro in atletica leggera nella stessa edizione delle Olimpiadi. Il salto in lungo è la competizione alla quale Carl Lewis è più affezionato. E il numero 4 lo perseguita: con questa gara può conquistare 4 medaglie d'oro in 4 edizioni consecutive delle Olimpiadi, eguagliando il primato di Al Oerter.

Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti. 5 agosto 1984. Pomeriggio. Caldo come solo chi conosce Los Angeles può capire. Gabrielle Andersen Schiess ha 39 anni, è un’istruttrice di sci svizzera, a questa Olimpiade è tra le favorite. Poi però accadde qualcosa all'ultimo rifornimento: non lo prende. Si disidrata e con grande fatica arriva fino allo stadio, dove percorre il giro finale. 400 metri che dureranno 4 minuti e 55 secondi. Chi ricorda la vincitrice di quella gara, o la seconda, o la terza? C'è solo lei nella memoria di uno stadio, dei telespettatori in mondovisione.

A collection of 172 of Coach Bru's insights and perspectives on enhancing your mindset and skillset in business and life....

Conversations Across America is about the father-son journey of a lifetime: a 73-day, 4,600-mile, cross-country bike trip Kari took in 2015 with his 75-year-old dad, Merv, who had early stage Alzheimer’s. Their adventure reminds us of the power of perseverance and adaptability in the face of uncertainty. It’s also a heartwarming example of listening and discovery, including 300 short conversations with people who approached them along the way, providing a rich snapshot of America--especially rural America.

When Steve Friedman was a child growing up in the suburbs of St. Louis, the game of golf was, to him, mysterious and dark. His father’s passion for it caused friction in his marriage and eluded the interest of his youngest son, who was devoted instead to basketball. For that and many other reasons, the two failed to bond, ultimately leading to an awkward and unhappy relationship. But Friedman never forgot the love his father had for golf, and after many years, when he was in his 40s, he reached out and asked his dad to teach him the game.

"Schlank werden und bleiben für Faule durch Hypnose ohne Sport. Schlank denken im Kopf / am Bauch / mit Darm / durch Selbstliebe & Selbsthypnose / ohne Gehen". Für Berufstätige. Viele Menschen sagen, dass Schlank sein im Kopf beginnt. Und träumen von Schlank im Schlaf. Aber stimmt das so? Ist das realistisch? Gibt es eine spezielle Formel oder einen Code um das Abnehmen zu beschleunigen? Kann man auch voller Energie sein? Geht das nur mit Biss? Mühelos schlank sein? Endlich schlank sein ohne zu hungern?

If you want to learn how to be a lot healthier than you are now, you will find all the information you need to change your life in this easy-to-listen-to pause-resister. In this book, you will learn how to switch over to a breakthrough plant-based diet; how to cleanse your body with our special detox diet; how to put together 30 special plant-based recipes; how to stay on a plant-based diet for health and weight loss; and more.

Black Athlete White Athlete is a thought-provoking and insightful book that helps individuals clearly understand the situations that they are currently experiencing. This book provides solutions to overcome challenges in the various areas of life. This book also helps to enlighten, inspire, and nurture the daily tasks needed for mental stability now and in the future.

In Path to Mastery Applications I cover three applications of the concepts already mentioned in the Enhancing Performance series. These will be mastering golf, accelerated learning, and achieving abundance or having an abundance mentality. Demonstrations will be presented for each skill. For each, I will demonstrate how hypnosis can be easily and quickly used. Once this technique is quickly mastered, you can apply it to just about any form of learning or skill mastery. Demonstration included.

John Feinstein - The Friends I've Made provides a compelling view of sports and life from the incomparable perspective and recall of multiple New York Times best-selling author John Feinstein and five individuals who John has covered, followed and now considers friends: David Feherty, Tom Izzo, Steve Kerr, Mary Carillo, and Mike Krzyzewski.

Hoy en día hay cierta tendencia a buscar fórmulas mágicas para el éxito y, a ser posible, de efecto inmediato. En realidad, no existen atajos ni fórmulas milagrosas. Sólo hay un camino: el esfuerzo, la determinación y ciertas dosis de sacrificio. En este libro, el campeón olímpico Saúl Craviotto nos descubre cuáles son los pilares en los que se ha apoyado para lograr sus metas en el deporte y en la vida. Lo que denomina "el triángulo del éxito": la mente, el cuerpo y las relaciones sociales.

Most books on teaching the martial arts, pertain primarily to one’s wallet. The Broken Rice Bowl is a book which appeals to one’s heart. It is not a quick fix to anything. Rather, it is the telling of a tale of one man, on the quest for making better human beings through individuals stories across time. In The Broken Rice Bowl, such stories focus on what makes for a less-than-worthy teacher, and how to avoid such pitfalls with common sense and technical know-how.

The Empty Cup provides listeners with the eight keys to developing a proper mind-set for success in their martial arts training. Presented in the form of parables, these life lessons are analyzed and explained in a way that is easy to understand. Accompanied by real-life examples from the author’s 35 years of experience in the field, The Empty Cup is a must-listen for everyone who is serious about martial artists, regardless of rank, style, or lineage.

Iris Krasnow was eight years old when she first attended sleepaway camp, building lasting friendships and essential life skills amid the towering pine trees and open skies of Wisconsin. Decades later, she returned to Camp Agawak as a staff member to help resurrect Agalog, the camp's defunct magazine that she wrote for as a child. There, she revisits the activities she loved as a young girl: singing songs around a campfire, swimming in a pristine lake, sleeping under the stars—experiences that continue to fill her with wisdom and perspective.

We all have mountains to conquer and in the process of climbing them, we find that we're really conquering ourselves. By stepping beyond my comfort zone to discover what I was made of, I learned some valuable lessons about habits, discipline, mindfulness, friendship, challenges, attitude, mindset, comfort, mental strength, and my perceived physical limitations. Listening to this audiobook, you’ll learn a lot about them as well!

Vinnie Curto was born in East Boston, Massachusetts, on July 10, 1955. His father Jimmy Curto was a raving, sick, alcoholic homosexual. Vinnie’s father and his drunken friends sexually abused young Vinnie, frequently raping him and performing other deviant sexual acts on him, while his mother Loretta stood by and let it happen.